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Extracardiac findings: what is a cardiologist to do?

s g p imilar issues confront the nuclear cardiolgist (1). Because there is limited guidance n how to handle these findings, each inerpreter likely approaches them in a differnt manner. Whereas some may ignore hem, most probably comment along the ines of “abnormality noted, further testing uggested if clinically indicated” and feel hat this satisfies their professional and oral obligations to th...

What is this page known for? Computing Web page reputations

The textual content of the Web enriched with the hyperlink structure surrounding it can be a useful source of information for querying and searching. This paper presents a search process where the input is the URL of a page, and the output is a ranked set of topics on which the page has a reputation. For example, if the input is www.gamelan.com, then a possible output is \Java." We propose seve...

P-value: What is and what is not

The misinterpretation and misuse of p-value have been increasing for decades. In March 2016, the American Statistical Association released a statement to warn about the use and interpretation of p-value. In this study, we provided a definition and discussion of p-value and emphasized the importance of its accurate interpretation.    

What Every Cardiologist Should Know about H1N1?

The world is witnessing ever fastest growing pandemic with high morbidity and mortality that excessive volume of airline travels spread influenza infection; so physicians with various specialties should know and consider the impact of current pandemic on their daily practice. Among influenza A viruses that infect humans, an influenza A virus emerged that had shifted to H1N1. Primarily, the resu...