OBJECTIVE We sought to assess the long-term trends in the incidence of type 1 diabetes among non-Hispanic white and Hispanic youth aged 0-17 years from Colorado using data from the Colorado IDDM Study Registry (1978-1988) and SEARCH for Diabetes in Youth (2002-2004). RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS Cases of diabetes were ascertained through physician reporting and hospital databases. Type 1 diabe...

BACKGROUND Time-trend studies on psychotropic drugs among children and adolescents are scarce, and most of them are outdated. The purpose of this study was to study prevalences of psychotropic drug use during 2004-2014 among Norwegians aged <18 years, overall and in psychotropic sub-groups. METHODS Data were obtained from the Norwegian Prescription Database, which covers all dispensed prescri...

Classiication is an important data mining problem. Although classiication is a well-studied problem, most of the current classi-cation algorithms require that all or a portion of the the entire dataset remain permanently in memory. This limits their suitability for mining over large databases. We present a new decision-tree-based classiication algorithm , called SPRINT that removes all of the m...

BACKGROUND This study aimed to examine the extent of death and injuries among the 0-17 years of age group recorded in the official road traffic injury statistics. METHODS This is a record-based study covering a 5-year-period (2003-2007) using the annual records of national road traffic injury statistics in Turkey. RESULTS The 0-17 age group accounted for 10.9% of deaths and 20.1% of injurie...

OBJECTIVE Epilepsy is a most common serious neurological disorder and is one of the world's most prevalent non-communicable diseases. The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence and risk factors of epilepsy in 0-17 year old children in Trabzon, Turkey. METHODS A cross-sectional epidemiological investigation was performed in two phases, a screening phase and a confirmation of the dia...

The cellular fatty acid composition of Pasteurella multocida and four unclassified groups of gram-negative bacteria (EF-4, M-5, IIj, and DF-2) which are frequently associated with human dog-bite infections was determined by gas-liquid chromatography. Strains of P. multocida were readily distinguished from the unclassified groups by the presence of 3-hydroxy myristic acid (3-OH- 14:0). Groups M-...

Bu çal??man?n amac?, amatör futbol oyuncular?n?n anaerobik güç ve ivmelenme parametrelerinin baz? fiziksel özelliklere göre incelenmesidir. Bölgesel ligde oynayan 17 oyuncusu ara?t?rmaya gönüllü olarak kat?ld? (n=17, ya?=24,82±4,63 y?l, vücut a??rl???=74,26±9,07 kg., boy uzunlu?u=176,51±6,35 cm., kitle indeksi=23,75±1,56 kg/m2). Oyuncular?n kompozisyonu parametreleri (vücut a??rl??? (kg.), ya? ...