Academic Articles & Research Papers

Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs): Data on higher education

The data presented in this article are based on provides a systematic and organized review of 219 studies regarding using of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) in higher education from 2012 to 2017. Consequently, the extant, peer-reviewed ...

Dataset on perception of public college students on underage drinking in Nigeria

Alcohol is the most widely used substance of abuse among youths in Nigeria. Underage drinking poses a serious public health problem in most colleges and despite the health and safety risk, consumption of alcohol is rising. Having recourse t...

Corrigendum: The “Jack-of-all-Trades” Flagellum From Salmonella and E. coli Was Horizontally Acquired From an Ancestral β-Proteobacterium

Medical Informatics in Medical Research

OBJECTIVES: Computers are widely used for data management in clinical trials in the developed countries, unlike in developing countries. Dependable systems are vital for data management, and medical decision making in clinical research. Mon...

Lessons From a Rapid Project Management Exercise in the Time of Pandemic: Methodology for a Global COVID-19 VIRUS Registry Database

BackgroundThe rapid emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic globally collapsed health care organizations worldwide. Incomplete knowledge of best practices, progression of disease, and its impact could result in fallible care. Data on symptoms an...

The Association of Social Determinants of Health Screening With Developmental and Social-Emotional Outcomes in Children Enrolled in Head Start

Introduction/Objectives: Social determinants of health (SDOH) have the potential to differentially impact child developmental outcomes. This study examined whether scores on the Environmental Screening Questionnaire (ESQ), a newly developed...

Social justice and social media: How medical schools display critical consciousness online

A real-world clinical validation for AI-based MRI monitoring in multiple sclerosis

Abstract Modern management of MS targets No Evidence of Disease Activity (NEDA): no clinical relapses, no magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) disease activity and no disability worsening. While MRI is the principal tool available to neurologis...

Future History: Medical Informatics in Geriatrics

With deference to Isaac Asimov's The Foundation, which is the inspiration for this series, we briefly describe the "present history" of medical informatics (the application of information technology in medicine) in geriatrics, and then proj...

Standardization in Health and Medical Informatics

Standard is a thing or quality or specification by which something may be tested or measured. The development of standards is organized on a global, international level, existing also on a national level, well harmonized with an internation...

A Focus on Simulation in Medical Informatics

This special issue of JAMIA addresses simulation, a methodology that holds great promise for the advancement of information technology in health care. Simulation has been termed a third domain, complementing both natural language and mathem...

The History and New Trends of Medical Informatics

ABSTRACT The breakthrough of the computer and information technologies in all the segments of the society, led to the needs for the computer and information technologies. The knowledge of information technology is now part of general litera...

Effects of individualized rTMS on functional connectivity related to the default mode network and frontal-parietal network in major depressive disorder: exploratory analysis of a randomized controlled trial

Objective: Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) has been shown to alleviate depressive and anxiety symptoms in patients with major depressive disorder (MDD), typically by targeting the dorsolateral (DLPFC) or dorsomedial pref...

Five Periods in Development of Medical Informatics

Medical informatics, as scientific discipline, has to do with all aspects of understanding and promoting the effective organization, analysis, management, and use of information in health care. While the field of Medical informatics shares ...

Data on biosynthesis of BPAF glucuronide, enzyme kinetics of BPAF glucuronidation, and molecular modeling

Bisphenol AF (BPAF) is in the body mainly metabolized to the corresponding bisphenol AF glucuronide (BPAF-G). While BPAF-G is not commercially available, enzyme-assisted synthesis of BPAF-G using the human recombinant enzyme UGT2A1, purific...

MBPD: A multiple bacterial pathogen detection pipeline for One Health practices

Abstract Bacterial pathogens are one of the major threats to biosafety and environmental health, and advanced assessment is a prerequisite to combating bacterial pathogens. Currently, 16S rRNA gene sequencing is efficient in the open‐view d...

Combining Digital Cognitive Behavioral Therapy With Mindfulness Training for Binge Eating Disorder: Protocol for a Feasibility Trial

BackgroundCognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is the most effective treatment for binge eating disorder (BED) but is limited by modest efficacy and low reach of in-person delivery. Combining mindfulness training with CBT could enhance effica...

The Questions of Medical Informatics

Each science is identified with the questions it raises with respect to its object of study. This paper discussed the formulation of the basic questions of medical informatics. From a historical point of view, it first dealt with the proble...

Challenges in Medical Informatics: Perspectives of an International Medical Informatics Organization

OBJECTIVE: As an international organization with the missions to promote informatics in health care and biomedical research, advance international cooperation, stimulate research, development and education, and disseminate and exchange info...

Is a prostate cancer screening anxiety measure invariant across two different samples of age-appropriate men?

Abstract Background In order to explore the influence of anxiety on decision–making processes, valid anxiety measures are needed. We evaluated a prostate cancer screening (PCS) anxiety scale that measures anxiety related to the prostate–spe...