BACKGROUND The Demographic and Health Surveys (DHSs) have been used throughout the developing world for the last 20 years to provide data on the distribution of disease in order to inform planning. Data on child illness and death are reported by mothers and are susceptible to error. METHODS We conducted an in-depth study of the Iranian DHS carried out in 2000-2001 and reviewed 110 DHS carried...

Introduction: Outcomes have historically been poor for patients with relapsed/refractory (R/R) diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL). Despite an increase in approved R/R DLBCL treatment options, clinical outcomes of these therapies remain less certain. Novel treatments include chimeric antigen receptor T-cell (CAR T) therapy, polatuzumab vedotin plus bendamustine and rituximab (pola-BR), tafasi...

The US continues to lead the world in research and development (R&D) expenditures, but there is concern that stagnation in federal support for biomedical research in the US could undermine the leading role the US has played in biomedical and clinical research discoveries. As a readout of research output in the US compared with other countries, assessment of original research articles published ...

The study of complex networks has emerged over the past several years as a theme spanning many disciplines, ranging from mathematics and computer science to the social and biological sciences. A significant amount of recent work in this area has focused on the development of random graph models that capture some of the qualitative properties observed in large-scale network data; such models hav...

OBJECTIVES This study aimed to compare the impact of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per capita, spending on Research and Development (R&D), number of universities, and Indexed Scientific Journals on total number of research documents (papers), citations per document and Hirsch index (H-index) in various science and social science subjects among Asian countries. MATERIALS AND METHODS In this stu...

Social skills deficits are a central feature of autism spectrum disorders (ASD). This meta-analysis of 55 single-subject design studies examined the effectiveness of school-based social skills interventions for children and adolescents with ASD. Intervention, maintenance, and generalization effects were measured by computing the percentage of non-overlapping data points. The results suggest tha...

Abstract. This paper advocates the application of multi-agent techniques in the realisation of social robotic behaviour. We present the Social Robot Architecture, which integrates the key elements of agenthood and robotics in a coherent and systematic manner. This architecture seamlessly integrates real world robots, multi-agent development tools, and VRML visualisation tools into a coherent wh...

Over the past two decades, there have been substantive shifts in the social compact between higher education and society. Unlike the centuries old tradition of the autonomous pursuit of knowledge and science, universities are now expected to be more accountable to society, the state and the market in particular, more responsive to the demands of a global knowledge-based economy (Salmi 2007, Maa...