which method is more efficient in determining osteoporosis, qus or dexa?

Which Method is More Efficient in Determining Osteoporosis, QUS or DEXA?

We read with much interest the recently published article, “Effects of Raloxifene on Bone Metabolism in Hemodialysis Patients With Type 2 Diabetes,” by Saito et al (1). First, we would like to congratulate the authors. We wish to share a few scientific facts related to this interesting article. It was a pleasure to inform from this article that no difference was observed in BMD (bone mineral de...

Blood lead level in opium abuse. Which is more dangerous? Opium smoking or opium ingestion?

Social Support or Organizational Support: Which One Is More Predictive of Job Burnout in workers?

  Introduction: Social and organizational supports are effective factors closely related to job burnout and Due to the limited studies in this area on Iranian workers, this study aims to determine the predictability of social support and organizational support in  job burnout for workers in Yazd. Methods: This cross-sectional study was carried out among 200 textile workers in Yazd through str...

Which Is More Prominent in Recurrent Hydatidiform Mole, Ovum or Sperm?

Recurrent hydatidiform mole is defined as episodes of two molar pregnancies in a female. Often, complete moles onlyderive androgenic nuclear genome. We described two cases with repeated molar pregnancies attempted to preventfuture episodes by performing intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) and preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD)to assess genetic disorders. The first pat...

S Hare or S Plit : Which Is More Efficient ?

In this paper, we investigate two different feature representations in convolutional neural networks (CNN): (a) Share all classes share the same feature space, and a fully connected layer is used to decode class activation, and (b) Split each class has its own feature space and a class is activated if its corresponding feature vector has a large norm. This is inspired by Capsules (Sabour et al....

Concise, intensive or longitudinal medical education courses, which is more effective in perceived self-efficacy and development of faculty members?

  Background: Teachers’ self-efficacy and development may be conceptualized as their beliefs in their own ability to plan, organize and carry out activities that are required to attain educational goals. In this study, we examined the effect of different medical education training courses (six-day, one- month short- term and six-month long- term courses) on perceived self-effica...