This study examines the influence of financial distress on corporate restructuring decisions and whether this varies across Firm Life Cycle (FLC) stages Pakistani non-financial listed firms for 12 years from 2005 to 2016 inclusive. FLC are measured using Dickinson model Altman Z-score, respectively. Corporate is segregated into equity debt restructuring. The data analyzed a panel logistic regre...

Background: Skinfold-thickness measurements are commonly obtained for the indirect assessment of body composition. Objective: We developed new skinfold-thickness equations by using a 4-compartment model as the reference. Additionally, we compared our new equations with the Durnin and Womersley and Jackson and Pollock skinfold-thickness equations to evaluate each equation’s validity and precisio...

IMPORTANCE A simple, reliable anthropometric tool for rapid estimation of weight in children would be useful in limited-resource settings where current weight estimation tools are not uniformly reliable, nearly all global under-five mortality occurs, severe acute malnutrition is a significant contributor in approximately one-third of under-five mortality, and a weight scale may not be immediate...

Abstract Funding Acknowledgements Type of funding sources: Public Institution(s). Main source(s): National Institute for Health Research, UK University Leeds Background Cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) examinations requiring repeated breath-holds are challenging in younger patients. While 4-dimensional phase-contrast (4D flow) CMR does not require breath-holds, acquisition has been lengthy. The...

David Moher and Douglas Altman outline four potential interventions that may improve the quality of peer-reviewed medical research publications.

It is important to investigate the reproducibility of raw mass spectrometry (MS) features of abundance, such as spectral count, peptide number and ion intensity values, when conducting replicate mass spectrometry measurements. Reproducibility can be inferred from these replicate data either formally with analyses of variance techniques or informally with graphical procedures, particularly, Blan...

Corp; 2004. 15. Bland JM, Altman DG. Statistical methods for assessing agreement between two methods of clinical measurement. Lancet 1986;8476:307-10. 16. Bland JM, Altman DG. Measuring agreement in method comparison studies. Stat Methods Med Res 1999;8:135-60. 17. Finer NN, Carlo WA, Duara S, Fanaroff AA, Donovan EF, Wright LL, et al. Delivery room continuous positive airway pressure/positive ...

Douglas Altman, back in 1994, wrote a highly influential paper in the British Medical Journal entitled ‘the scandal of poor medical research’ (1). It focused on the prevalence of poor design and analysis in medical research. Altman believed the reason was a general failure to appreciate the principles underlying scientific research, coupled with the ‘publish or perish climate’ where scientific ...