The Korean Journal of Anesthesiology, the official journal of the Korean Society of Anesthesiologists, recently introduced the Statistical Round as a new publishing category for the year 2015. The Aims and Scope section of the journal explains that the Statistical Round category provides educational material to help the reader understand the designs of experimental and statistical analyses used...

OBJECTIVE Barriers to executing large-scale randomized controlled trials include costs, complexity, and regulatory requirements. We hypothesized that source document verification (SDV) via remote electronic monitoring is feasible. METHODS Five hospitals from two NIH sponsored networks provided remote electronic access to study monitors. We evaluated pre-visit remote SDV compared to traditiona...

BACKGROUND This study aimed to assess the effect of new package of interventions on scientific productions rate in Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences. METHODS Through a health system research, we extracted policies from the strategic plan of the university and 10 interventions were developed to increase the scientific productions in terms of quality, quantity and commercialization...

The food industry holds great potential for driving consumers to adopt healthy food choices as (re)formulation of foods can improve the nutritional quality of these foods. Reformulation has been identified as a cost-effective intervention in addressing non-communicable diseases as it does not require significant alterations of consumer behaviour and dietary habits. Nutrient profiling (NP), the ...

Theorem 1. For any θ * ∈ Θ, there exists a unique symmetric solution P to (5) that satisfies R + B P B > 0 and ρ sr (A + BL) < 1 where L = −(R + B P B) −1 (S + B P A) and ρ sr (·) denotes a spectral radius. Moreover, a policy π = (π 1 , π 2 ,. . .) with π t (I t−1) = Lz t−1 is an optimal policy among admissible policies that attains minimum expected average cost tr(P ˜ Ω). Proof. First, we will...

Chairperson, ladies and gentleman, I have been asked to share my views with you today on what will happen with monetary policy in the next ten years. Looking into the future is always a hazardous undertaking. It requires a careful analysis of what has changed already and what likely changes will occur in the coming years. Such an analysis cannot only concentrate on what has happened in South Af...

The resolution, authored by sena to rs M ark C hapm an (Dist. 3), P a t K iernan (Dist. 1) and Tom R ask (Dist. 4), criticized w hat it called a lack of student input in the policy’s form ation and a haphazard m anner of com m unicating the policy changes to students. The resolution also called for the re sea rch of “ providing a l­ te rn a tiv e s to social activ ities affected by the rev ised...

This paper analyses the role of S&T policy in the adjustment and restructuring of the Russian S&T system in the post-Soviet period. The principal argument is that the adjustment of the S&T system in Russia has been evolving between the ‘preservation of S&T potential’, its restructuring, and survival strategies developed by researchers and R&D organisations. The interaction of these factors expl...

We define what is a replacement policy for a system that fails randomly in time and its main characteristics. There are several parameters that drive the structure of the optimal policy. We provide a detailed discussion of the time horizon, objective functions, and failure time distributions as part of any replacement policy. 1 Definitions and main characteristics Our daily lives involve the ob...

When subjective descriptions of judgmental policies have been compared to statistical descriptions of policies, investigators have repeatedly found an imperfect correspondence between subjective and statistical measures of importance. There is reason to believe, however, that these findings may be due to the use of inadequate procedures for obtaining subjective weights. The present study, there...