the aim of the current research was to compare motor development in 3–6-year-old children from ahvaz with denver developmental screening test ii. themethodology of this research was descriptive – survey. the statistical populationconsisted of children from ahvaz and 1044 children aged between 3 and 6 wereselected from ahvaz kindergartens by cluster random sampling method. denverdevelopmental sc...

abstract background beta-thalassemia is a common hereditary hemoglobinopathy, which is a reason of microcytic hypochromic anemia. patients with major thalassemia require multiple blood transfusions. this study evaluated growth in thalassemic patient and relationship with ferritin level. materials and methods this is a cross sectional study on seventy patients (36 boys, 34girls) with transfusion...

PP(top x%) is the proportion of papers of a unit (e.g. an institution or a group of researchers), which belongs to the x% most frequently cited papers in the corresponding fields and publication years. It has been proposed that x% of papers can be expected which belongs to the x% most frequently cited papers. In this Letter to the Editor we will present the results of an empirical test whether ...

We present a new algorithm called PBSIM for computing image similarity, based upon a novel method of extracting bloblike features from images. In tests on a classification task using a data set of over 1000 images, PBSIM shows significantly higher accuracy than algorithms based upon color histograms, as well as previously reported results for another approach based upon bloblike features.

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Poor linear growth is common in children with CKD and has been associated with higher mortality. However, recent data in adult dialysis patients have suggested a higher risk of death in persons of tall stature. In this study, we aimed to examine the risk of all-cause and cause-specific mortality in children at both extremes of height at the time of first RRT. DESIGN,...

BACKGROUND Antral follicle count (AFC) and anti-Mullerian hormone (AMH) are known as the most reliable markers of a woman's ovarian reserve and are related to age. There is currently no specific local age-related centile charts for AFC and AMH. Therefore, we aim to examine the relationship between AFC and AMH with age and construct age-related nomograms among a subfertile Asian population. ME...

BACKGROUND Elevated platelet count is associated with risk of venous thromboembolism in cancer patients initiating chemotherapy. It is not known whether this risk by platelet count is causal or merely reflects the malignant disease. We investigated whether pre-cancer platelet count alone or together with high leukocyte count was associated with risk of venous thromboembolism in subjects who did...

background:     purpose:     methods     results     th percentile for the score was 41.66 and the 75   th percentile was 58.68. conclusion

BACKGROUND Economic literature shows that a child's future earnings are predictably influenced by parental income, providing an index of "socioeconomic mobility," or the ability of a person to move towards a higher socioeconomic status from childhood to adulthood. We adapted this economic paradigm to examine cardiovascular risk mobility (CRM), or whether there is life course mobility in relativ...

1 Asymptotics of Percentile Order Statistics Let Xi (i = 1, . . . , N) be independently identically distributed (IID) continuous random variables with CDF, P (x) = P(Xi ≤ x), and PDF, p(x) = dP . Let Y (α) be the 100αth percentile, which is dx N uniquely defined by ordering the outcomes, X(1) ≤ X(2) ≤ . . . ≤ X(N) (using the standard notation of order statistics) and setting YN (α) = X([αN ]) (...