In regard to the article entitled "The Dental Aesthetic Index and Dental Health Component of the Index of Orthodontic Treatment Need as Tools in Epidemiological Studies" by Cardoso et al. [1] which checks the validity and agreement of two scales for orthodontic treatment need, we would like to draw your attention to a number of discrepancies in the design and methodology which have affected the...

We have read with interest the article by Lu et al. entitled "Association of excessive mobile phone use during pregnancy with birth weight: an adjunct study in Kumamoto of Japan Environment and Children's Study" published recently in the Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine. Although this paper addresses a very challenging issue, it has some shortcomings. Mortazavi et al. have previousl...

In this paper, we report data and experiments related to the research article entitled "An adaptive truncation criterion, for linesearch-based truncated Newton methods in large scale nonconvex optimization" by Caliciotti et al. [1]. In particular, in Caliciotti et al. [1], large scale unconstrained optimization problems are considered by applying linesearch-based truncated Newton methods. In th...

The data in this paper are related to the research article entitled "Taxonomic status and phylogenetic relationship of tits based on mitogenomes and nuclear segments" (X.J. Li et al., 2016) [1]. The mitochondrial genomes and nuclear segments of tits were sequenced to analyze mitochondrial characteristics and phylogeny. In the data, the analyzed results are presented. The data holds the resultin...

We read the publication entitled “Current Review of Iron Overload and Related Complications in Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation” with great interest [1]. As summarized by Atilla et al. [1], “Organ dysfunction due to iron overload may cause high mortality rates and therefore a sufficient iron chelation therapy is recommended”. We would like to share the experience from our settings where ...

This article contains data related to the research article entitled "Altered relation of the renin-aldosterone system and vasoactive peptides in type 2 diabetes: the KORA F4 study" (Then et al., 2016) [1] and describes the association of the aldosterone to renin ratio with midregional-pro atrial natriuretic peptide (MR-proANP) and midregional-pro adrenomedullin (MR-proADM) in 1261 participants ...

This data provides the fuel cell performance of Nafion based hybrid membranes containing GO and dihydrogen phosphate functionalized ionic liquid (IL) at 70 °C under anhydrous condition. Readers are requested to go through the article entitled "Nafion® based hybrid composite membrane containing GO and dihydrogen phosphate functionalized ionic liquid for high temperature polymer electrolyte membr...

This article presents a critical reading of the work Imam al-Haramayn al-Juwayni (d. 1085) entitled Ghiyath al-Umam (Ghiyāthī). is necessary to fill in gaps study roots and precedents moderation Islamic political thought medieval period. Al-Juwayni’s religious thoughts, when faced with non-ideal situations, showed well-founded character moderation. The solutions problems his time that he offere...

In the paper entitled " Skeletal muscle mass indices in healthy young Mexican adults aged 20–40 years: implications for diagnoses of sarcopenia in the elderly population " there was a wrong citation in Table 3. First, the correct last name is Masanes et al., 2012 [13]. Second, we want to correct in our published work the sex-specific cutoff points reported by Wen et al. The correct values are 5...