3 research outputs found
How Can Bee Colony Algorithm Serve Medicine?
Healthcare professionals usually should make complex decisions
with far reaching consequences and associated risks in health
care fields. As it was demonstrated in other industries, the ability
to drill down into pertinent data to explore knowledge behind the
data can greatly facilitate superior, informed decisions to ensue
the facts. Nature has always inspired researchers to develop
models of solving the problems. Bee colony algorithm (BCA),
based on the self-organized behavior of social insects is one of
the most popular member of the family of population oriented,
nature inspired meta-heuristic swarm intelligence method
which has been proved its superiority over some other nature
inspired algorithms. The objective of this model was to identify
valid novel, potentially useful, and understandable correlations
and patterns in existing data. This review employs a thematic
analysis of online series of academic papers to outline BCA in
medical hive, reducing the response and computational time and
optimizing the problems. To illustrate the benefits of this model,
the cases of disease diagnose system are presented
Nanotechnology Tolls the Bell for Plastic Surgeons
Nanotechnology is an emerging discipline, having power to
revolutionarize every scientific field to a very deep level which
previously thought to be a science fiction. Having a great potential
to beneficially change the way a disease is diagnosed, treated and
prevented, nanotechnology practically impacts on state of the art
healthcare technologies and plays a crucial role in changing the field
of surgery. Surgeons are constantly looking for minimally invasive
ways to treat their patients, as recovery is faster when a lesser trauma
is inflicted upon a patient, scarring is lessened and there are usually
fewer complications in the aftermath of the operation. Through
nanotechnology, tiny biosensors could be constructed which could
take these factors into account, thus shortening the patient recovery
period and saving hospitals money, reducing infection rates within
the hospital, reducing the waiting lists for operation and allowing
doctors to treat more patients in the same period of time. This
review employs a thematic analysis of online series of academic
papers focuses on the potentials of nanotechnology in surgery,
especially in plastic surgery and addresses the possible future
prospects of nanotechnology in this field
Factors Affecting Patients Undergoing Cosmetic Surgery in Bushehr, Southern Iran
BACKGROUND
Although, there have been extensive research on the motivations
driving patient to undergo cosmetic procedures, there is
still a big question mark on the persuasive factors which may
lead individuals to undergo cosmetic surgery. The present
study evaluated various factors affecting patients undergoing
cosmetic surgery in Bushehr, Southern Iran.
METHODS
From 24th March 2011 to 24th March 2012, eighty-one women
and 20 men who wished to be operated in Fatemeh Zahra
Hospital in Bushehr, Southern Iran and Pars Clinic, Iran were
enrolled by a simple random sampling method. They all completed
a questionnaire to consider reasons for cosmetic procedures.
The collected data were statistically analyzed.
RESULTS
Demographical, sociological and psychological factors such as
age, gender, educational level, marital status, media, perceived
risks, output quality, depression and self-improvement were
determined as factors affecting tendency of individuals to
undergo cosmetic surgery in this region. Trend to undergo
cosmetic surgery was more prevalent in educational below
bachelor degree, married subjects, women population of 30-45
years age group. Education level, age, marital status and
gender were respectively the influential factors in deciding to
undergo cosmetic surgery. Among the socio-psychological
factors, self-improvement, finding a better job opportunity,
rivalry, media, health status as well as depression were the
most persuasive factors to encourage people to undergo
cosmetic surgery too. Cost risk was not important for our
samples in decision making to undergo cosmetic surgery.
CONCLUSION
We need to fully understand the way in which the combination
of demographic, social and psychological factors influence
decision-making to undergo cosmetic surgery