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Case fatality rates of invasive meningococcal disease by serogroup and age: A systematic review and meta-analysis by Wang, Bing, Santoreneos, Renee, Giles, Lynne, Haji Ali Afzali, Hossein, Marshall, Helen

“…•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 by Bittner, Stefan, Afzali, Ali M, Wiendl, Heinz, Meuth, Sven G

“…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 by Tulevski, George S, Franklin, Aaron D, Afzali, Ali

“…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 by Karnon, Jonathan, Haji Ali Afzali, Hossein

“…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 by Hu, Zhaoying, Comeras, Jose Miguel M. Lobez, Park, Hongsik, Tang, Jianshi, Afzali, Ali, Tulevski, George S., Hannon, James B., Liehr, Michael, Han, Shu-Jen

“…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 by Wang, Bing, Haji Ali Afzali, Hossein, Giles, Lynne, Marshall, Helen

“…•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 by Park, Hongsik, Afzali, Ali, Han, Shu-Jen, Tulevski, George S., Franklin, Aaron D., Tersoff, Jerry, Hannon, James B., Haensch, Wilfried

“…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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Economic burden of frailty in older adults accessing community‐based aged care services in Australia by Toson, Barbara, Edney, Laura Catherine, Haji Ali Afzali, Hossein, Visvanathan, Renuka, Khadka, Jyoti, Karnon, Jonathan

“…Aim To explore the utilization of permanent residential aged care (PRAC), healthcare costs, and mortality for frail compared with non‐frail individuals…”
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Structuring a conceptual model for cost-effectiveness analysis of frailty interventions by Haji Ali Afzali, Hossein, Karnon, Jonathan, Theou, Olga, Beilby, Justin, Cesari, Matteo, Visvanathan, Renuka

“…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 by Edney, Laura C., Haji Ali Afzali, Hossein, Visvanathan, Renuka, Toson, Barbara, Karnon, Jonathan

“…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? by Afzali, Ali, Ruck, Tobias, Wiendl, Heinz, Meuth, Sven G

“…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 by Edney, L.C., Haji Ali Afzali, H., Cheng, T.C., Karnon, J.

“…•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 by Wang, Bing, Haji Ali Afzali, Hossein, Marshall, Helen

“…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 by Wenzel, Martina, Afzali, Ali Maisam, Hoffmann, Dieter, Zange, Sabine, Georgi, Enrico, Hemmer, Bernhard

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Skin and gut imprinted helper T cell subsets exhibit distinct functional phenotypes in central nervous system autoimmunity by Hiltensperger, Michael, Beltrán, Eduardo, Kant, Ravi, Tyystjärvi, Sofia, Lepennetier, Gildas, Domínguez Moreno, Helena, Bauer, Isabel J., Grassmann, Simon, Jarosch, Sebastian, Schober, Kilian, Buchholz, Veit R., Kenet, Selin, Gasperi, Christiane, Öllinger, Rupert, Rad, Roland, Muschaweckh, Andreas, Sie, Christopher, Aly, Lilian, Knier, Benjamin, Garg, Garima, Afzali, Ali M., Gerdes, Lisa Ann, Kümpfel, Tania, Franzenburg, Sören, Kawakami, Naoto, Hemmer, Bernhard, Busch, Dirk H., Misgeld, Thomas, Dornmair, Klaus, Korn, Thomas

“…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 by Afzali, Ali M, Moog, Philipp, Kalluri, Sudhakar Reddy, Hofauer, Benedikt, Knopf, Andreas, Kirschke, Jan Stefan, Hemmer, Bernhard, Berthele, Achim

“…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 by Pashaeifar, Masoud, Kamal, Mehdi, Afzali-Kusha, Ali, Pedram, Massoud

“…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 by Zendegani, Reza, Kamal, Mehdi, Bahadori, Milad, Afzali-Kusha, Ali, Pedram, Massoud

“…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 by Edney, Laura Catherine, Haji Ali Afzali, Hossein, Cheng, Terence Chai, Karnon, Jonathan

“…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 by Chandra, Bhupesh, Afzali, Ali, Khare, Neeraj, El-Ashry, Mostafa M, Tulevski, George S

“…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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