OBJECTIVE To validate a measurement instrument for clean intermittent self-catheterization for patients and health-caregivers. MATERIAL AND METHODS Methodological study of instrument validation performed at a Rehabilitation Center in a University hospital for patients submitted to clean intermittent self-catheterization and their health-caregivers. Following ethical criteria, data were collec...

In many intellective tasks groups consistently outperform individuals. One factor is that the individual(s) with the best answer is able to convince the other group members using sound argumentation. Another factor is that the most confident group member imposes her answer whether it is right or wrong. In Experiments 1 and 2, individual participants were given arguments against their answer in ...

BACKGROUND As the date for the introduction of biosimilars in the United States approaches, questions remain regarding the naming, coding, and approval process for these agents that will need to be carefully considered. OBJECTIVES To (a) ascertain pharmacists' awareness of and comfort level with biosimilars and (b) determine the impact of identical or different nonproprietary names on pharmac...

OBJECTIVE To assess patient perspectives on secondary lifestyle modification and knowledge of 'heart attack' after percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) for coronary artery disease (CAD). DESIGN Observational cross-sectional study. SETTING A single university-based hospital centre in Japan. PARTICIPANTS In total, 236 consecutive patients with CAD who underwent PCI completed a questionn...

Suppose you are presented with 2 informants who have provided answers to the same question. One provides a precise and confident answer, and the other says that they do not know. If you were asked which of these 2 informants was more of an expert, intuitively you would select the informant who provided the certain answer over the ignorant informant. However, for cases in which precise informati...

The best arguments for the 1/3 answer to the Sleeping Beauty problem all require that when Beauty awakes on Monday she should be uncertain what day it is. I argue that this claim should be rejected, thereby clearing the way to accept the 1/2 solution. 1 Inertia and Sleeping Beauty If on Monday you confidently and rationally believe that Slippery Slim is guilty, and from Monday to Tuesday you ga...

Existing single-stage detectors for locating objects in point clouds often treat object localization and category classification as separate tasks, so the accuracy confidence may not well align. To address this issue, we present a new detector named Confident IoU-Aware Single-Stage Detector (CIA-SSD). First, design lightweight Spatial-Semantic Feature Aggregation module to adaptively fuse high-...