PURPOSE Written materials are frequently used to provide education to stroke patients and their carers. However, poor quality materials are a barrier to effective information provision. A quick and reliable method of evaluating material quality is needed. This study evaluated the interrater reliability of the Suitability Assessment of Materials (SAM) checklist in a sample of written stroke educ...

several practical problems of hypotheses testing can be under a general linear model analysis of variance which would be examined. in analysis of variance, when the response random variable y , has linear relationship with several random variables x, another important model as analysis of covariance can be used. in this paper, assuming that y is fuzzy and using dlr metric, a method for testing ...

BACKGROUND The quality of care for asthma remains suboptimal. Compliance with guidelines remains low, but improved adherence to guidelines may increase the quality of care. but. We conducted a trial to determine whether group Self-Assessment Module (SAM) activities led by a facilitator and conducted as part of Maintenance of Certification for Family Physicians (MC-FP) would increase knowledge o...

T h e testabili ty of a sequential circuit can be i m proved by controlling the clocks of individual storage elements during testing. W e propose several clock control strategies derived f r o m a n analysis of the circuit, i t s S-graph structure, and i ts funct ion. Through examples we show how the number of clocks aflects the circuit’s testability. It i s shown that if certain flip-flops (FF...

Neural programming involves training neural networks to learn programs from data. Previous works have failed to achieve good generalization performance, especially on programs with high complexity or on large domains. This is because they mostly rely either on black-box function evaluations that do not capture the structure of the program, or on detailed execution traces that are expensive to o...

Cyanate and 2,3-diphosphoglycerate (2,3-DPG) both influence the oxygen affinity of hemoglobin. The studies presented here concern the effects of these compounds on the sickling phenomenon. The inhibitory effect of cyanate on sickling is largely due to the fact that it increases the percentage of oxyhemoglobin S at a given oxygen tension. In addition, cyanate inhibits sickling by a mechanism tha...

background: there is evidence that pulmonary function abnormalities are present in patients with inflammatory bowel disease (ibd). the aim of this case-control study was to assess the frequency of pulmonary dysfunction in patients with ibd. materials and methods: pulmonary function of 37 patients with ibd (8 with cd and 29 with uc) without any known pulmonary disease was tested by body-box plet...

introduction: as an inherited neurodegenerative disease, huntington's disease is accompanied with wide neuronal degeneration in neostriatum and neocortex. progress of the disease causes disabling clinical effects on movements, recognition and physiology of the body, and finally results in death. at this stage of knowledge we are, there is no effective therapeutic strategy for diminishing t...