Academic Articles & Research Papers

Analysing interventions designed to reduce tuberculosis-related stigma: A scoping review.

Stigma is a critical barrier for TB care delivery; yet data on stigma reduction interventions is limited. This review maps the available literature on TB stigma reduction interventions, using the Health Stigma and Discrimination framework a...

Identification and reporting of heart failure with preserved ejection fraction in Sub-Saharan Africa: a scoping review of diagnostic approaches, echocardiographic assessment, and evidence gaps

Abstract Background Heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) is increasingly recognized as a major heart failure phenotype globally; however, its diagnosis is complex and is recommended to require integrated assessment of clin...

The Effects of N-acetylcysteine on Inflammatory Markers and Homocysteine: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials

Background: Recently a number of trials investigated the effect of N-acetylcysteine (NAC) administration on inflammatory markers and homocysteine (Hcy). However, their findings are controversial. The aim of this paper is to present a meta-a...

Optimizing respiratory virus replication in human bronchial/tracheal epithelial air-liquid interface cultures through practical quality indicators and key characteristics.

AMALGAMATION OF BUSINESS INT ELL IGENCE WITH ENT ERPRISE RESOURCEPLANN ING SYSTEMS FOR IND USTRY 4.0

Businesses today are incredibly data rich, and dealing with large amount of data, so making some inferences andconclusions, depending on the organisation size and complexity of its processes, it has been a challenge, especially that thenext...

Toward a Fit-for-purpose Policy Architecture on Long-term Care in Sub-Saharan Africa: Impasse and a Research Agenda to Overcome it

Context: Perspectives from sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) have featured little in the expanding global debate on long-term care (LTC) policy thus far – despite SSA countries’ embrace of global commitments on the development of equitable and susta...

A Fully Adapted Headstage With Custom Electrode Arrays Designed for Electrophysiological Experiments

Electrophysiological recordings lead amongst the techniques that aim to investigate the dynamics of neural activity sampled from large neural ensembles. However, the financial costs associated with the state-of-the-art technology used to ma...

Understanding Customers' Opinion using Web Scraping and Natural Language Processing

The web offers large volumes of data that is unstructured and fails to be further processed if not extracted and organized into local variables or into databases. In this paper, we aim to extract data from the Internet using web scraping ...

Artificial intelligence in clinical medicine: a state-of-the-art overview of systematic reviews with methodological recommendations for improved reporting

Medicine has become increasingly receptive to the use of artificial intelligence (AI). This overview of systematic reviews (SRs) aims to categorise current evidence about it and identify the current methodological state of the art in the fi...

Natural Language Processing Techniques for Text Classification of Biomedical Documents: A Systematic Review

The classification of biomedical literature is engaged in a number of critical issues that physicians are expected to answer. In many cases, these issues are extremely difficult. This can be conducted for jobs such as diagnosis and treatmen...

A Survey of the Application of Neural Networks to Event Extraction

Event extraction is an important part of natural language information extraction, and it’s widely employed in other natural language processing tasks including question answering and machine reading comprehension. However, there is a lack o...

Machine Unlearning: A Perspective, Taxonomy, and Benchmark Evaluation

Machine Learning (ML) models trained on large-scale datasets learn useful predictive patterns, but they may also memorize undesired information, leading to risks such as information leakage, bias, copyright violations, and privacy attacks. ...

Is ChatGPT a General-Purpose Natural Language Processing Task Solver?

Spurred by advancements in scale, large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated the ability to perform a variety of natural language processing (NLP) tasks zero-shot-i.e., without adaptation on downstream data.Recently, the debut of ChatGP...

Data augmentation techniques in natural language processing

Data Augmentation (DA) methods – a family of techniques designed for synthetic generation of training data – have shown remarkable results in various Deep Learning and Machine Learning tasks. Despite its widespread and successful adoption w...

Analyzing Sentiments in eLearning: A Comparative Study of Bangla and Romanized Bangla Text Using Transformers

In the modern world, learning is becoming increasingly critical due to rapid technological breakthroughs, which highlight the need for continuous skill development in both the personal and professional spheres. As a result, eLearning is a c...

Menstrual Health Education Using a Specialized Large Language Model in India: Development and Evaluation Study of MenstLLaMA

Abstract BackgroundThe quality and accessibility of menstrual health education (MHE) in low- and middle-income countries, including India, remain inadequate due to persistent challenges (eg, poverty, social stigma, and gender in...

Evaluation of the accuracy of ChatGPT-4 and Gemini’s responses to the World Dental Federation’s frequently asked questions on oral health

Abstract Background The field of artificial intelligence (AI) has experienced considerable growth in recent years, with the advent of technologies that are transforming a range of industries, including healthcare and dentistry. Large langua...

A Systematic Review of Natural Language Processing in Healthcare

The healthcare system is a knowledge driven industry which consists of vast and growing volumes of narrative information obtained from discharge summaries/reports, physicians case notes, pathologists as well as radiologists reports.This inf...

Construction and practice of an intelligent management system for preoperative anemia based on multidisciplinary collaboration

[Objective] To improve the efficiency and standardization of preoperative anemia diagnosis and treatment by establishing a systematic intelligent management platform for preoperative anemia. [Methods] A multidisciplinary collaborative model...

Explainable hybrid deep learning framework for air quality index prediction in Indian cities

Abstract Air pollution constitutes one of the most pressing environmental and public health crises of the twenty-first century, disproportionately affecting rapidly urbanising nations such as India. Accurate prediction of the Air Quality In...