The evaluation of verbal memory is a core component neuropsychological assessment in wide range clinical and research settings. Leveraging story recall to assay neurocognitive function could be made more useful if it were possible administer frequently (i.e., would allow for the collection patient data over time) automatically assess recalls with machine learning methods. In present study, we e...

The primary objective of this study was to investigate the determinants of learning flow and achievement in corporate online training. Self-efficacy, intrinsic value, and test anxiety were selected as learners’ motivational factors, while perceived usefulness and ease of use were also selected as learning environmental factors. Learning flow was considered as a mediator of predictors and achiev...

the aim of the study was to evaluate the clinical usefulness of n-terminal pro-brain natriuretic peptide (nt-pro bnp) and nitric oxide (no) with echocardiography (gold standard test) in diagnosis of canine cardiomyopathy. out of 374 cases, 82 cases showing cardiovascular abnormalities including 16 cases of cardiomyopathy were further selected for standardization of biomarkers. significant (p

BACKGROUND Medical and technological progress has led to increased numbers of diagnostic tests, some of them inducing high financial costs. In Germany, high-cost diagnostic imaging is performed by a medical specialist after referral by a general practitioner (GP) or specialist in primary care. The aim of this study was to evaluate the physicians' perceived usefulness of high-cost diagnostic ima...

We evaluated the usefulness of interferon-gamma release assays (IGRAs) in the diagnosis of active tuberculosis (TB) in routine clinical practice. We retrospectively assessed the diagnostic usefulness of the QuantiFERON-TB Gold In-Tube (QFT-IT) test in 519 consecutive patients who were suspected of having active pulmonary TB and had QFT-IT test results. Active pulmonary TB was diagnosed in 242 p...

The problem of testing programs without test oracles is well known. A commonly used approach is to use special values in testing but this is often insufficient to ensure program correctness. This paper demonstrates the use of metamorphic testing to uncover faults in programs, which could not be detected by special test values. Metamorphic testing can be used as a complementary test method to sp...