There is an increasing interest in the literature regarding the risks for alcohol abuse, particularly at young ages. The current study aimed to contribute to this topic by assessing the role of the relevant predictors on alcohol consumption among adolescents and young adults. The sample comprised 364 participants (202 female) that were assessed with the Global School-based Student Health Survey...

Abstract Introduction Persons with vulvodynia (a chronic vulvar pain condition) suffer many barriers to diagnosis and treatment, several of which may be exacerbated by the sociocultural geographical context in they live. Objectives We drew on experiences patients who were living small urban rural communities learn what perceived as major treatment well probe for possible solutions. Methods For ...

Abstract Background Preimplantation genetic testing of embryos (PGT) was performed first in 1990 to prevent the transmission X-linked disease. Since then, technique has improved include couples who are both carriers same autosomal recessive disorder, those with balanced translocations having recurrent pregnancy loss, and women advanced maternal age at higher risk for aneuploid embryos. Original...

ObjectiveThis study aimed to develop and internally validate risk prediction models for predicting groin wound surgical site infections (SSIs) following arterial intervention evaluate the utility of existing this outcome.MethodsData from Groin Infection after Vascular Exposure (GIVE) multicentre cohort were used. The GIVE prospectively enrolled 1 039 consecutive patients undergoing an procedure...

In October 2002, European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) recommended a standard Distributed Speech Recognition (DSR) advanced front-end, ETSI ES202 050 version 1.1.1 (ES202). Many studies use this front-end in noise environments on several languages on connected digit recognition tasks. However, we have not seen the reports of large vocabulary continuous speech recognition using ...