The Effectiveness of Buckroyd’s Group-Based Therapeutic Approach on Increasing Efficiency Life Style and Improving Body Self-Image by Fariba Hosseini, Yousef Gorgi, Afsaneh Javadzadeh

“…Conclusion: Buckroyd Method can be employed in the increase of life style self-efficacy and body image structure in the obese women.…”
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Priming the primary motor cortex with transcranial direct current stimulation: Effect on learning the golf putt. by Bisman Mangat, Luc Tremblay, Joyce L Chen

“…There was no difference in retention performance between A-M1 and sham tDCS.<h4>Conclusion</h4>Our findings partially support the Bienenstock-Cooper-Munro rule of metaplasticity. …”
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Predictive Growth Modeling of Listeria monocytogenes in Rice Balls and Its Risk Assessment by Seoungsoon Yeo, Misook Kim

“…Growth data were analyzed using three primary models (the Huang, Baranyi, and Gompertz models), and the growth pattern was found to fit well to the Baranyi model based on the following five statistical criteria: root mean square error (0.38–0.56), Akaike’s information criterion (−51.55–−26.99), coefficient of determination (0.72–0.97), bias factor (0.97–1.01), and accuracy factor (1.06–1.18). …”
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Role of tongue flap in palatal fistula repair: A series of 41 cases by Ravi Kumar Mahajan, Rahul Chhajlani, Harish C. Ghildiyal

“…Introduction: Despite the improved techniques of repair of cleft palate, fistula occurrence is still a possibility either due to an error in the surgical technique or due to the poor tissue quality of the patient. …”
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Predicting pulmonary function using thoracic deformity parameters in early onset scoliosis patients. by Mattan R Orbach, Patrick J Cahill, Annalise Noelle Larson, Ron El-Hawary, Oscar H Mayer, Sriram Balasubramanian

“…For the validation test, no significant differences (p > 0.05) in prediction error magnitudes were found.<h4>Conclusion</h4>The developed MLR models provide the highest reported precision for predicting PFT values in EOS patients from radiographic deformity parameters. …”
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Analysis of factors, associated with the probability of antihypertensive medication in the population of patients with arterial hypertension by V. S. Kaveshnikov, V. N. Serebryakova, I. A. Trubacheva

“…Univariable and multivariable (logistic regression) statistics were applied. The error probability &lt;5% was considered statistically significant. …”
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Patient-specific modeling of the trochlear morphologic anomalies by means of hyperbolic paraboloids by Pietro Cerveri, Guido Baroni, Norberto Confalonieri, Alfonso Manzotti

“…The obtained small fitting error (on average lower than 0.80 mm) demonstrated that the ventral aspect of the trochlear morphology can be modeled with high accuracy by HPs. …”
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Text, Lies, and Linguistic Rape: Rewriting Theatre History in the Light of Dramatic Translations by John London

“…Las condiciones de la representación teatral (5) son a menudo la causa de interpretaciones erróneas de dramaturgos como Dario Fo. La conclusión explica como estas prácticas continúan en el siglo XXI y como pocas personas se dan cuenta.…”
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Distress, multimorbidity, and complex multimorbidity among Chinese and Korean American older adults. by Hannah Oh, Brittany N Morey, Yuxi Shi, Sunmin Lee

“…We performed logistic regression for CMM and Poisson regression with robust error variance for MM to estimate associations with distress, adjusting for potential confounders.…”
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Vitamin D status among the adults of Guwahati and its associated factors: A cross sectional study by Khagorika Saikia, Mousumi Krishnatreya, Barnali B. Thakur

“…Using the prevalence of vitamin D deficiency in adults as 93.3% and absolute error as 5%, the sample size was calculated to be 100 which was rounded to be 120. …”
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Algorithm for parametric identification of the dc electric drive using the inverse model by N. A. Malev, O. V. Pogoditsky, M. R. Chilyaeva, A. R. Imamiev

“…The identification of the overall transmission coefficient of a DC electric drive is carried out with an error not exceeding 0.5% in real time under the conditions of the influence of disturbances of various physical nature.…”
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Comparison of subfoveal choroidal thickness in pre-eclamptic, healthy pregnant, and non-pregnant women by Aarshi Naharwal, Ramanuj Samanta, Ajai Agrawal, Latika Chawla, Amrita Gaurav, Sreeram Jayaraj

“…Females with refractive error beyond ±3 D, intraocular pressure >21 mmHg, prior ocular trauma or surgeries, systemic diseases, pregnancy-related complications (except PE), and poor OCT scans were excluded. …”
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Small-size spectral features for machine learning in voice signal analysis and classification tasks by D. S. Likhachov, M. I. Vashkevich, N. A. Petrovsky, E. S. Azarov

“…The analysis showed that spectral envelopes obtained using the proposed method more accurately represent the spectrum of test signal according to the criterion of minimum square error. A comparison of the effectiveness of voice signal classification with proposed features and the features based on the mel-frequency kepstral  coefficients is carried out. …”
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Research on Highly Reliable Transmission based on Delta-sigma Modulation for Power Communication by ZHANG Jun, RUI Wenjun, Lü Na

“…【Conclusion】Experimental results demonstrate that the Delta-sigma modulation scheme can achieve an improvement in SNR through bandwidth broadening, effectively extending transmission reach and performance. …”
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Developing a comprehensive malnutrition prediction model for the elderly in nursing homes by Yan Wu, Wei Tan, Wenlong Yi, Yujuan Chen

“…Conclusion This nomogram provides a robust tool for malnutrition risk stratification in nursing homes. …”
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A novel fibrosis index comprising a non-cholesterol sterol accurately predicts HCV-related liver cirrhosis. by Magdalena Ydreborg, Vera Lisovskaja, Martin Lagging, Peer Brehm Christensen, Nina Langeland, Mads Rauning Buhl, Court Pedersen, Kristine Mørch, Rune Wejstål, Gunnar Norkrans, Magnus Lindh, Martti Färkkilä, Johan Westin

“…Liver biopsy is invasive and thus entails a risk of complications as well as a potential risk of sampling error. Therefore, non-invasive diagnostic tools are preferential. …”
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INTENSIVE CARE OF CHILDREN WITH MASSIVE BURNS DURING THE FIRST 24 HOURS AFTER THE INJURY – RESULTS OF THE INTERACTIVE SURVEY by A. U. Lekmanov, D. K. Azovskiy, S. F. Pilyutik, L. I. Budkevich

“…The level of statistical significance was ascertained at the probability of error of 0.05. The applied software of Statistica 10 и SAS JMP 11 was used for statistic processing of data. …”
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Distribution and risk factors for childhood visual deficiency in Morocco: Case – control study by Loulidi Soukaina, Loukid Mohamed, Boussaa Samia

“…Results: The results showed the predominance of cataracts (43 %), followed by refractive error (26.4 %) and glaucoma (23.6 %). In youngsters, the primary cause of vision impairment is 63.2 % heredity. …”
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Self-efficacy of Menstrual Hygiene Management and Menstrual Absenteeism Among Students of a College in Kolkata by Mousumi Datta, Shamima Yasmin, Debjani Guchhait

“…Self-efficacy had a mean score of 29.90 (standard error of mean = 0.513) and a median score of 31. …”
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Methodology for Measuring the Dose Rate of Pulsed Bremsstrahlung Radiation using Gamma Radiation Dosimeters with Geiger-Muller Counter by N. V. Titov

“…A technique was developed for correcting the results of measuring the dose rate of pulsed bremsstrahlung radiation by a dosimeter equipped with a Geiger-Muller counter, which allows the dose rate of pulsed bremsstrahlung radiation to be measured with an additional error of less than 15 % in a practically significant range of dose rates. …”
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