BACKGROUND Burning mouth syndrome is a chronic disorder that is characterized by a burning sensation and a normal clinical appearance of the oral mucosa. This condition often affects the health-related quality of life in patients. As such, the aim of this study was to compare the health-related quality of life of patients with BMS and healthy controls, using the validated Portuguese versions of...

A high percentage of bachelor test-takers who failed the unified entrance examination test in 2021 demonstrated lack adequate reading strategies such as contextual guessing for improving exam performance. The study aims at evaluating use strategy during extra-curriculum EFL classes a way to improve students’ present also examines impact word formation component and effectiveness with online voc...

BACKGROUND Although vancomycin is frequently used to treat neonatal late-onset sepsis, there is no consensus on the optimal dosing regimen. Because many neonates needed dosing adaptation due to suboptimal trough values, the vancomycin dosing regimen in our neonatal department was changed during 2012. OBJECTIVE We aimed to document the need for validation of neonatal vancomycin dosing by explo...

Some new results on univariate interpolation by weak Cheby-shev spaces, using conditions of Schoenberg-Whitney type and the concept of almost interpolation sets, are given. x1. Introduction Let U denote a nite-dimensional subspace of real-valued functions deened on some set K. We are interested in describing those conngurations T = dimU jT = s: T is called an interpolation set (I-set) w.r.t. U....

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE Colorectal cancer is one of the main causes of mortality in both developed and developing countries, including Iran. One of the treatments available for colorectal cancer is chemotherapy, of which nausea and emesis are the side effects. Owing to problems in controlling the side effects, a combination of medicine and non-medicine interventions is usually used. Self-care ...

The comparison of parasite numbers or intensities between different samples of hosts is a common and important question in most parasitological studies. The main question is whether the values in one sample tend to be higher (or lower) than the values of the other sample. We argue that it is more appropriate to test a null hypothesis about the probability that an individual host from one sample...

Aim of the study was to evaluate the diagnostic performance of the Rose Bengal score test for Sjøgren's syndrome (SS), and to explore differences between other tests and examinations. All participants were examined, including (but not limited to) unstimulated (UWS) and stimulated (SWS) whole saliva, labial gland biopsy (LGB or focus score), ophthalmologic questionnaire (ocular surface disease i...

We show the combinatorics behind the Wilcoxon-Mann-Whitney two-sample test. This yields new combinatorial proofs of recurrences for its null distribution given recently by Brus and Chang, as well as new recurrences. It is shown how to convert these recurrences into generating functions. These generating functions are used to obtain closed expressions for the null distribution when one of the sa...

The authors present an improved ranked set two-sample Mann-Whitney-Wilcoxon test for a location shift between samples from two distributions F and G. They define a function that measures the amount of information provided by each observation from the two samples, given the actual joint ranking of all the units in a set. This information function is used as a guide for improving the Pitman effic...

In CBIR system, relevance feedback is used to improve the retrieval performance. In this paper, a new MannWhitney test based method is presented to identify the features which can distinguish relevant and irrelevant images in a retrieved set. Then the discriminating features are given more emphasis to improve retrieval performance. Proposed scheme is implemented for two different similarity mea...