The co-twin control study is a popular research design that is used in many research disciplines, including epidemiology, medicine, and the behavioural sciences. In co-twin control studies of monozygotic (MZ) exposure discordant twin pairs, the appropriate statistical tests used to analyse data from continuous outcome variables are the parametric paired sample t test or the non-parametric Wilco...

BACKGROUND Patient safety culture (PSC) has an important role in determining safety and quality in healthcare. Currently, little is known about the status of unit-level PSC in hospitals in Japan. To develop appropriate strategies, characteristics of unit-level PSC should be investigated. Work units may be classified according to the characteristics of PSC, and common problems and appropriate st...

OBJECTIVE For many applied problems in the context of medically relevant artificial intelligence, the data collected exhibit a hierarchical or clustered structure. Ignoring the interdependence between hierarchical data can result in misleading classification. In this paper, we extend the mechanism for mixture-of-experts (ME) networks for binary classification of hierarchical data. Another exten...

Helicobacter pylori is the microbial agent most responsible for gastro-duodenal ulcer and chronic gastritis, which can develop into carcinoma of stomach. This study was performed in Wad Medani Teaching Hospital, Sudan to detect stomach samples, evaluate performance tests used, were histological stains PCR. Gastric biopsies obtained from 105 referred patients during endoscopy, fixed specimens ex...

This study was the first to test both independent and additive effects of change-detection prompts warnings about potential discrepancies between an event post-event information on susceptibility misinformation. Participants (N = 239) viewed a mock crime video, read narrative containing misinformation, completed memory video content. were randomly assigned warning conditions. Ecological validit...

ABSTRACT Japanese moraic nasal /N/ is a segment having the status of an independent mora. In utterance-medial position, it realized as sharing same place articulation immediately following segment, but in utterance-final believed to be uvular nasal. This final-/N/-as-uvular view, which wide-spread literature on phonetics and phonology, was examined objectively by use real-time MRI movie articul...