BACKGROUND Gene networks have generated a massive explosion in the development of high-throughput techniques for monitoring various aspects of gene activity. Networks offer a natural way to model interactions between genes, and extracting gene network information from high-throughput genomic data is an important and difficult task. OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study is to construct a two-wa...

Antibiotic consumption and population density as a measure of crowding in the community were related to the prevalence of antibiotic resistance of three cities in three different countries: St Johns in Newfoundland (Canada), Athens in Greece and Groningen in The Netherlands. Antibiotic consumption was expressed in DDD (defined daily dose), as DID (DDD/1000 inhabitants/day) and as DSD (DDD/km(2)...

OBJECTIVE This study aimed to assess the prevalence of borderline personality symptoms in 16-18 year old adolescents. METHODS In this cross sectional - descriptive study, 422 high school students (211 boys, 211 girls) aged 16-18 were selected by cluster random sampling and simple random sampling in 2011-2012. The participants were assessed using the revised diagnostic interview for borderline...

OBJECTIVE To review the scientific literature on the tracking of dietary patterns from childhood to adolescence. METHODS A search of the MEDLINE/PubMed, Lilacs and SciELO databases was performed, using the following key words: "tracking", "dietary patterns" and "childhood/adolescence" and their respective synonyms. A total of 45 abstracts were found and, after the inclusion criteria were appl...

This paper proposes an image quality metric (IQM) using compressive sensing (CS) and a filter set consisting of derivative and Gabor filters. In this paper, compressive sensing that is used for acquiring a sparse or compressible signal with a small number of measurements is used for measuring the quality between the reference and distorted images. However, an image is generally neither sparse n...

Performance of different organizations, such as hospitals is mainly influenced by their managers' performance. Nursing managers have an important role in hospital performance and their managerial skills can improve the quality of the services. Hence, the present study was conducted in order to assess the relationship between the managerial skills and the results of their performance evaluation ...