Several factors that underlie health inequality have been studied and defined as the social determinants of (SDHs). The main SDHs are gender, socioeconomic status (SES), ethnicity. In this study, disparity was analyzed in context vascular diseases (VDs) such Peripheral Artery Disease (PAD), Chronic Venous (CVD), Abdominal Arterial Aneurysm (AAA), Carotid Stenosis (CS). This article aims to prov...

Retained surgical items (RSIs) are surgical instruments, such as laparotomy sponges and suture needles, that are le‰ in a patient’s body post-surgery. Œese incredibly costly mistakes also pose a serious health risk. Manual methods of tracking are highly inaccurate at scale, and modern methods (including embedded RF chips) are costly and limited to larger objects. We implemented a vision-based t...

New York State Psychiatric Institute and Hospital Since Woodworth's questionnaire was devised and published, many revisions have appeared adding improvements to his original inventory but usually retaining its general form and some of its items. In the attempt to validate these tests, research workers have made use of the entire gamut of social deviants, from the problem child through the delin...

BACKGROUND In January 2003, STAndards for the Reporting of Diagnostic accuracy studies (STARD) were published in a number of journals, to improve the quality of reporting in diagnostic accuracy studies. We designed a study to investigate the inter-assessment reproducibility, and intra- and inter-observer reproducibility of the items in the STARD statement. METHODS Thirty-two diagnostic accura...

In this paper, we propose an algorithm called PITP-Miner that utilizes a projection based approach to mine frequent inter-transaction patterns efficiently. The algorithm only searches for local frequent items in a projected database that stores potential local inter-transaction items and partitions the database into a set of smaller databases recursively. In addition, two pruning strategies are...

BACKGROUND This study explores the role of pleasure in decision making. RESULTS In Experiment 1, 12 subjects were presented with a questionnaire containing 46 items taken from the literature. Twenty-three items described a situation where a decision should be made and ended with a suggested solution. The other items served as filler items. The subjects were requested not to make a decision bu...

The Dispositional Hope Scale (DHS; C. R. Snyder et al., 1991) consists of two subsets of items measuring Agency and Pathways. The authors used bifactor analysis to evaluate the dimensionality structure of the scale. Data from 676 persons (295 psychiatric patients, 112 delinquents, and 269 students) were analyzed. The authors conclude that although the Pathway items seem to explain some addition...