One of the basic techniques that analyzes categorical data is homogeneity analysis. The technique originated in the work of Guttman [17] as a method of scale construction using reciprocal averaging. Burt [5] described homogeneity analysis as a principal components analysis of qualitative data. Hayashi [19] stressed homogeneity analysis as one possible way of quantifying categories. It should be...

Methods To construct a care-management tool based on the ICF, we developed 12 ICF-based health-measurement scales including basic behavior, mobility, orientation, communication, cognitive activities, eating function, eating behavior, toileting, bathing, oral hygiene, self-care and clothing. The new scales have the following characteristics: 1. ICF codes are selected using the Rasch method. Ther...

Purpose This study aims to analyze the scientific output of long noncoding RNA (lncRNA) research and construct a model to evaluate publications from the past decade qualitatively and quantitatively. Methods Publications from 2007 to 2016 were retrieved from the Web of Science Core Collection database. Microsoft Excel 2016 and CiteSpace IV software were used to analyze publication outputs, jou...

In the squid giant axon, Sjodin and Mullins (1958), using 1 msec duration pulses, found a decrease of threshold with increasing temperature, while Guttman (1962), using 100 msec pulses, found an increase. Both results are qualitatively predicted by the Hodgkin-Huxley model. The threshold vs. temperature curve varies so much with the assumptions made regarding the temperature-dependence of the m...

Bayesian internal consistency and its Bayesian credible interval (BCI) are developed and Bayesian internal consistency and its percentile and normal theory based BCIs were investigated in a simulation study. Results indicate that the Bayesian internal consistency is relatively unbiased under all investigated conditions and the percentile based BCIs yielded better coverage performance. Introduct...

primary immune thrombocytopenia is an acquired bleeding disorder with no clinically apparent cause of thrombocytopenia. clinical indicators of itp include easy bruising of the skin, prolonged bleeding on injury, mucocutaneous lesions such as petechiae and ecchymosis, epistaxis, gastrointestinal bleeding, hematuria and bleeding from the gums. it is important for a dentist to be aware of the clin...