how to cite this article: talebian a, soltani b, sehat m, zahedi a, noorian a, talebian m. incidence and risk factors of neural tube defects in kashan, central iran. iran j child neurol. summer 2015;9(3):50-56. abstract objective neural tube defects (ntds) are the most common congenital defects of central nervous system due to neural tube closure deficit during the third and fourth weeks of ges...

BACKGROUND Ethnicity recording across the National Health Service (NHS) has improved dramatically over the past decade. This study profiles the completeness, consistency and representativeness of routinely collected ethnicity data in both primary care and hospital settings. METHODS Completeness and consistency of ethnicity recording was examined in the Clinical Practice Research Datalink (CPR...

Ethnicity and race are commonly used in biomedical research to portion human populations into groups for analysis. The view taken here is that race is a sociological construct that is poorly correlated with any measurable biological or cultural phenomenon other than the amount of melanin in an individual's skin. On the other hand, ethnicity is a sociocultural construct that is often, if not alw...

Abstract In this paper, we develop a machine learning classifier that predicts perceived ethnicity from data on personal names for major ethnic groups populating Russia. We collect VK, the largest Russian social media website. Ethnicity was coded languages spoken by users and their geographical location, with manually cleaned crowd workers. The shows accuracy of 0.82 scheme 24 0.92 15 aggregate...