OBJECTIVE To compare costs of diagnosis and annual treatment of osteoporosis and hip fracture between the Instituto Nacional de Rehabilitación (INR) and the protocol used by the Seguro Popular de Salud (SPSS). METHODS Direct costs gathered in a prospective study with real cases at the INR are presented, and then this data is re-analyzed with the methodology and protocol for the SPSS to estima...

Methods & Materials: A descriptive, cross-sectional study was conducted on 315 pregnant women who were in the last trimester. Participants were randomly recruited from an outpatient clinic of a state hospital in Çanakkale, Turkey, between March and May 2012. Data were collected using a socio-demographic information form and CRF information questionnaire. Descriptive statistics and chi-square te...

THIS THIRD edition is detailed and introduces the reader to the majority of statistical techniques required to analyse data sets. It is structured around the discussion of descriptive data first, which is always a good principle. Step by step the student is shown how to consider the findings within his or her data.

The present work examined data obtained during the analysis of Hearing Reduction (HR) of Abadan Petroleum Refinery (Abadan PR) workers of Iran with a history of disease and injuries. To this end, all workers in the refinery were chosen. In this research, the effects of history of disease and injury including trauma, electric shock, meningitis-typhoid disease and genetic illness as well as conta...

Data on this paper show the concentrations of COD, BOD5, TSS, K+, Ca2+, Na+, Cl-, [Formula: see text], [Formula: see text], Mn2+, Fe2+, Mg2+, Zn2+, Ni, Pb, Cu and Cd in the influent and effluent of wastewater, and also the nematode eggs, total and fecal coliform in effluents from wastewater treatment plant of Rasht, Guilan Province, in Iran. Measurements of pollutants in influent and effluent w...

Acoustic models based on long short-term memory recurrent neural networks (LSTM-RNNs) were applied to statistical parametric speech synthesis (SPSS) and showed significant improvements in naturalness and latency over those based on hidden Markov models (HMMs). This paper describes further optimizations of LSTM-RNN-based SPSS for deployment on mobile devices; weight quantization, multi-frame inf...

This edition of the Journal starts with the big questions in psychiatry: what is a diagnosis? And how does one justify treatment against the will of the individual? The next version of the World Health Organization’s bible, the ICD–11, is being prepared at the same time as the American Psychiatric Association’s fifth edition of the DSM. The push for harmonising these two different systems is di...

Material and Methods: The study was designed as cross sectional observational study. 200 senile cataract patients scheduled for cataract surgery in the Department of Ophthalmology and 200 individuals of the same age group without cataract were selected. Mean serum sodium and potassium levels in the senile cataract group were calculated and compared with the control group. Serum sodium and potas...

Materials and methods We evaluated 37 women outpatients of the Hospital of Unicamp, divided into two groups: preoperative (PreOp, n=16) and postoperative of gastric bypass Y Roux (PosOp, n=21). The mean age was 36.7±7.8 and 40.7±9.3 yrs. and BMI 47.2±3.8 and 26.7±3.3 kg/m2, respectively. Food choices were evaluated by Taste Attitude Scale, divide into sub-scales: craving for sweet foods, using ...

Objective: This study was conducted to determine the relationship between sociodemographic characteristics, skin quality of life and medical compliance in individuals diagnosed with scabies.
 Method: Patients scabies called for follow-up after treatment were included (87 people). A questionnaire Skindex-16 Scale (Skindex-16) Medication Adherence Report used study. The data evaluated using ...