How discriminating are discriminative instruments?

How discriminating are discriminative instruments?

The McMaster framework introduced by Kirshner & Guyatt is the dominant paradigm for the development of measures of health status and health-related quality of life (HRQL). The framework defines the functions of such instruments as evaluative, predictive or discriminative. Evaluative instruments are required to be sensitive to change (responsiveness), but there is no corresponding index of the d...

Food Taxes: How Likely Are Likely Effects?

Pnm-19: How Are Prenatal Screening Results after ART Success?

Background Down syndrome screening at first-trimester may cause a higher false positive rate in pregnant patients who have undergone assisted reproductive technologies (ART). Combining the second largest series of biophysical and biochemical tests in the first trimester of pregnancy after ART is mentioned in few studies. MaterialsAndMethods Ghisoni et al explored that NT measurement between ART...

How we are not equally competent for discriminating acted from spontaneous expressive speech

This paper reports how acted vs. spontaneous expressive speech can be discriminated by human listeners, with various performances depending on the listener (in line with preliminary results for amusement by [3]). The perceptive material was taken from the Sound Teacher/E-Wiz corpus [1], for 4 French-speaking actors trapped in spontaneous expressive monoword utterances, and then acting immediate...

How are postural strategies modified along the time?

Postural control is critical for effective performance of all goal-directed activities. For maintenance of postural equilibrium against gravity and environmental disturbances, central nervous system produces centrally organized patterns of muscle activity based on initial conditions, perturbation characteristics, learning and intention. These organized strategies are called "postural strategies...