Search Results - "Afzali, Ali"
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Case fatality rates of invasive meningococcal disease by serogroup and age: A systematic review and meta-analysis
Published in Vaccine (09-05-2019)“…•Our review quantitatively estimated the risk of death following IMD.•Our meta-analyses confirmed and quantified the effect of serogroup and age on…”
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Myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein (MOG35-55) induced experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE) in C57BL/6 mice
Published in Journal of visualized experiments (15-04-2014)“…Multiple sclerosis is a chronic neuroinflammatory demyelinating disorder of the central nervous system with a strong neurodegenerative component. While the…”
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High Purity Isolation and Quantification of Semiconducting Carbon Nanotubes via Column Chromatography
Published in ACS nano (23-04-2013)“…The isolation of semiconducting carbon nanotubes (CNTs) to ultrahigh (ppb) purity is a prerequisite for their integration into high-performance electronic…”
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When to Use Discrete Event Simulation (DES) for the Economic Evaluation of Health Technologies? A Review and Critique of the Costs and Benefits of DES
Published in PharmacoEconomics (01-06-2014)“…Modelling in economic evaluation is an unavoidable fact of life. Cohort-based state transition models are most common, though discrete event simulation (DES)…”
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Physically unclonable cryptographic primitives using self-assembled carbon nanotubes
Published in Nature nanotechnology (01-06-2016)“…Information security underpins many aspects of modern society. However, silicon chips are vulnerable to hazards such as counterfeiting, tampering and…”
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Lifetime costs of invasive meningococcal disease: A Markov model approach
Published in Vaccine (31-10-2019)“…•A Markov model was constructed to predict lifetime costs of IMD.•The burden of IMD is substantial.•Significant healthcare costs incurred in young patients and…”
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High-density integration of carbon nanotubes via chemical self-assembly
Published in Nature nanotechnology (01-12-2012)“…Carbon nanotubes have potential in the development of high-speed and power-efficient logic applications 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 . However, for such…”
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Structuring a conceptual model for cost-effectiveness analysis of frailty interventions
Published in PloS one (11-09-2019)“…Frailty is a major health issue which impacts the life of older people, posing a significant challenge to the health system. One of the key emerging areas is…”
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An exploration of healthcare use in older people waiting for and receiving Australian community‐based aged care services
Published in Geriatrics & gerontology international (01-12-2023)“…Aim Home care packages (HCPs) facilitate older individuals to remain at home, with longer HCP wait times associated with increased mortality risk. We analyze…”
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Animal models in idiopathic inflammatory myopathies: How to overcome a translational roadblock?
Published in Autoimmunity reviews (01-05-2017)“…Abstract Idiopathic inflammatory myopathies (IIMs) encompass a heterogenic group of rare muscle diseases with common symptoms including muscle weakness and the…”
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Mortality reductions from marginal increases in public spending on health
Published in Health policy (Amsterdam) (01-08-2018)“…•We study the relationship between public health spending and mortality.•We use mean and quantile IV regression methods. •Marginal increases in public health…”
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The inpatient costs and hospital service use associated with invasive meningococcal disease in South Australian children
Published in Vaccine (20-08-2014)“…Highlights • Sequelae, serogroup B, males, or infants were associated with higher inpatient costs and LOS. • Septicaemia was associated with a longer LOS…”
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Toscana Virus Meningoencephalitis in Upper Bavaria
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Skin and gut imprinted helper T cell subsets exhibit distinct functional phenotypes in central nervous system autoimmunity
Published in Nature immunology (01-07-2021)“…Multidimensional single-cell analyses of T cells have fueled the debate about whether there is extensive plasticity or ‘mixed’ priming of helper T cell subsets…”
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CNS demyelinating events in primary Sjögren's syndrome: A single-center case series on the clinical phenotype
Published in Frontiers in neurology (16-02-2023)“…The study aimed to assess the prevalence, clinical characteristics, and therapeutic outcomes of the central nervous system (CNS) demyelinating disease in a…”
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Approximate Reverse Carry Propagate Adder for Energy-Efficient DSP Applications
Published in IEEE transactions on very large scale integration (VLSI) systems (01-11-2018)“…In this paper, a reverse carry propagate adder (RCPA) is presented. In the RCPA structure, the carry signal propagates in a counter-flow manner from the most…”
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RoBA Multiplier: A Rounding-Based Approximate Multiplier for High-Speed yet Energy-Efficient Digital Signal Processing
Published in IEEE transactions on very large scale integration (VLSI) systems (01-02-2017)“…In this paper, we propose an approximate multiplier that is high speed yet energy efficient. The approach is to round the operands to the nearest exponent of…”
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Estimating the Reference Incremental Cost-Effectiveness Ratio for the Australian Health System
Published in PharmacoEconomics (01-02-2018)“…Background Spending on new healthcare technologies increases net population health when the benefits of a new technology are greater than their opportunity…”
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Stable Charge-Transfer Doping of Transparent Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube Films
Published in Chemistry of materials (28-09-2010)“…Single walled carbon nanotube (SWCNT) films are candidates for use as transparent electrodes, especially where low-cost, flexible materials are desired…”
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The potassium channels TASK2 and TREK1 regulate functional differentiation of murine skeletal muscle cells
Published in American Journal of Physiology: Cell Physiology (01-10-2016)“…Two-pore domain potassium (K ) channels influence basic cellular parameters such as resting membrane potential, cellular excitability, or intracellular Ca…”
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