3 SUMMARY When the classical χ 2 goodness-of-fit test for Hardy-Weinberg (HW) equilibrium is used on samples with related individuals, the type I error can be greatly inflated. In particular the test is inappropriate in population isolates where the individuals are related through multiple lines of descent. In this paper, we propose a new test for HW (the QL-HW test) suitable for any sample wit...

We present a contextualist statistical realistic model for quantum-like representations in physics, cognitive science, and psychology. We apply this model to describe cognitive experiments to check quantum-like structures of mental processes. The crucial role is played by interference of probabilities for mental observables. Recently one such experiment based on recognition of images was perfor...

BACKGROUND Quality of life (QL) can be defined as the individual's perception of their own well-being. Aphasia is the most important potential consequence of stroke and has a profound effect on a patient's life, causing emotional distress, depression, and social isolation, due to loss of language functions. AIMS To draw up a QL questionnaire for aphasics (QLQA) focusing particularly on diffic...

OBJECTIVES To investigate, prior to an oncology consultation, the use of a pre-prepared list of evidence based questions, Question Prompt Sheet (QPS), compared with a Question List (QL), a patient self-generated list of questions. DESIGN Multi-centred, randomised controlled trial. SETTING Secondary-care patients attending three outpatient oncology clinics in Northern Italy. PARTICIPANTS 3...

Objective: Assessment of quality of life (QL) in patients undergoing major surgical procedures is of increasing interest. We focused on surgery of the thoracic aorta requiring deep hypothermic circulatory arrest (DHCA). Aim of this study was to assess QL after thoracic aortic surgery with DHCA, using the Short Form 36 Health Survey (SF-36) questionnaire. Methods: Between 01/94 and 12/99 212 (59...

The OWL 2 QL profile, which is based on DL-LiteR, has been designed so that query answering is possible using relational database technology via query rewriting. Unfortunately, given a query Q posed in terms of an OWL 2 QL ontology O, the size of the rewritten query, Qo, which can be evaluated directly on the relational database, is worst case exponential w.r.t the size of Q and O [1]. This mea...

Qiliqiangxin capsule (QL) was developed under the guidance of TCM theory of collateral disease and had been shown to be effective and safe for the treatment of heart failure. The present study explored the role of and mechanism by which the herbal compounds QL act on energy metabolism, in vivo, in pressure overload heart failure. SD rats received ascending aorta constriction (TAC) to establish ...

The successful exfoliation of atomically-thin bismuth telluride (Bi2Te3) quintuple layer (QL) attracts tremendous research interest in this strongly anharmonic quasi-two-dimensional material. The thermal transport properties of this material are not well understood, especially the mode-wise properties and when it is coupled with a substrate. In this work, we have performed molecular dynamics si...

In recent years there has been a growing interest in using Semantic Web technologies to process streaming information, and several RDF Stream Processing (RSP) systems have been developed to bridge the gap between static and streaming Linked Data. However, the lack of a standardized query language makes testing and benchmarking of systems difficult, since queries need to be developed for each su...

Background: Type of delivery has impact on women postpartum quality of life) QL(. No study has investigated QL of after cesarean section (CS), natural vaginal delivery (NVD) and NVD with water birth as a novel method. Objectives: The aim of the study was to compare women postpartum QL after three delivery modes in Shiraz hospitals. Method: This cross-sectional study was conducted on the women a...