Publications by authors named "R Y Ball"
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- Traditional pain studies have focused on single pain scores, which don't fully capture the complex effects of chronic pain on a person's daily life, mood, and overall quality of life.
- The study evaluated the Nalu™ Neurostimulation System for treating low-back and leg pain through a 90-day follow-up of patients implanted with this device at 15 pain centers in the US.
- Results showed that 94% of participants achieved meaningful improvements in at least two patient-reported outcomes, indicating the system's effectiveness in managing chronic pain.
Energy Expenditure and Maintenance Requirements in Non-Pregnant First-Parity Sows.
Animals (Basel)
November 2024
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- Five non-pregnant sows were studied to measure their energy expenditure through heat production while being fed different amounts of energy.
- When fed at the maintenance energy requirement (1.0 ME), sows lost weight due to higher heat production than energy intake, whereas feeding them double the requirement (2.0 ME) resulted in weight gain and higher heat production.
- The study suggests a recalibrated maintenance energy requirement of 506 kJ ME/kg for modern non-pregnant sows based on their energy consumption and expenditure observations.
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- The highlights cover research from 2022 divided into three sections: preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative, focusing on advancements in heart transplantation.
- The preoperative section discusses candidate assessment, donor optimization, and factors like cannabis use and comorbidities that impact transplantation success.
- The intraoperative section emphasizes teamwork and surgical techniques while the postoperative section highlights managing complications like tricuspid regurgitation and exploring xenotransplantation options.
RSNA 2023 Abdominal Trauma AI Challenge Review and Outcomes Analysis.
Radiol Artif Intell
November 2024
Purpose To evaluate the performance of the winning machine learning (ML) models from the 2023 RSNA Abdominal Trauma Detection Artificial Intelligence Challenge. Materials and Methods The competition was hosted on Kaggle and took place between July 26, 2023, to October 15, 2023. The multicenter competition dataset consisted of 4,274 abdominal trauma CT scans in which solid organs (liver, spleen and kidneys) were annotated as healthy, low-grade or high-grade injury.
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- Testicular germ cell tumours (TGCT) are the most common cancers found in young men, including seminoma and non-seminoma types.
- This study uses whole genome sequencing to analyze adult TGCTs, providing a detailed genomic profile that includes mutations, structural variations, and DNA amplifications.
- The research uncovers correlations between genetic changes and the different growth patterns of TGCT subtypes, highlighting late genomic duplication in some cases and a common immune disruption mechanism in seminomas.