The aim of our study was to determine whether pre-emptive statin therapy was associated with improved outcome of infective endocarditis (IE). We conducted a nationwide, population-based, propensity score-matched cohort study with the Taiwan's National Health Insurance Research Database. All patients with IE between January 2000 and December 2010 were enrolled. The primary outcome was in-hospita...

background and purpose: study skills is one important factor influencing academic achievement of students . we must replace ineffective models and habits of study with more fruitful skills in order to gain better learning. this study investigates the study skills and habits of medical students and their educational achievement. methods: based on a pilot study the sample size was estimates as 40...

Open IE methods extract structured propositions from text. However, these propositions are neither consolidated nor generalized, and querying them may lead to insufficient or redundant information. This work suggests an approach to organize open IE propositions using entailment graphs. The entailment relation unifies equivalent propositions and induces a specific-to-general structure. We create...

background it is obvious that most of informal learnings of social skills and constructive plays occur in school yards and play-fields where children spend much of their non-official time of teaching. this study aimed to investigate the impact of schools' open space on learning and educational achievement of elementary students in ahvaz, southwest of iran. materials and methods at a cross-...

It is known that coordination between joint movements crucial for the achievement of motor tasks and has been studied extensively. Especially, in sports biomechanics, researchers are interested determining which coordinated to achieve a task. However, this issue cannot be easily addressed with methods employed previous studies. Therefore, we aimed propose method identifying coordination. Subseq...

conclusions the results clarified a deep perception of participants’ experiences after disaster. the path of life recovery after disasters involves participants’ striving to achieve a comprehensive health recovery, which starts with the need for all-inclusive health recovery as a main concern; this is the motivator for a responding strategy. this strategy is participatory, and the process is pr...

ver the last eighteen years, changes in the American economy have dramatically increased the skills workers need to earn a middle-class living. However, almost half of American students now leave high school without the requisite skills. The mismatch between the growing skill demands of employers and the skills of graduating students creates a need for dramatic school improvement. Yet improveme...

Many states have used professional judgment panels to determine the resources schools need to meet certain performance targets. This study initiates a critical study of that method. Using budget simulations with hypothetical schools, we collected the judgments of 45 principals about how school budgets should be allocated and how school resources affect student achievement. We found considerable...