background: taking visual acuity is an important part of an eye routine examination. this study was conducted to compare visual acuity measured using an iranian digital tumbling e chart with visual acuity measured using an italian digital tumbling e chart as a familiar foreign chart. materials and methods: this study was carried out on 200 participants (400 eyes; healthy n=40, glaucoma n=40, re...

The case of Q̂(χ1) · Q̂(χ1)-Q̂(χ2) · Q̂(χ2) mixing in the interacting boson model is studied within its mean-field approximation. It is shown that the criticality conditions lead to two classes of solutions and that χ1 and χ2 need to have an opposite sign to allow for prolate-oblate shape coexistence. No evidence for a stable triaxial minimum is found. Phase diagrams for selected cases have been co...

INTRODUCTION In Denmark, the European risk chart Systematic COronary Risk Evaluation (SCORE) from the European Society of Cardiology is recommended for use in cardiovascular prevention. Nevertheless, its predictive ability in a Danish population has never been investigated. The purpose of this study was therefore to assess the predictive ability of the SCORE risk chart with regard to fatal card...

OBJECTIVE To compare the adverse maternal and neonatal outcomes of multiple pregnancy and singleton pregnancy from multiple medical centers in Beijing. METHODS Data concerning maternal and neonatal adverse outcomes in multiple and singleton pregnancies were collected from 15 hospitals in Beijing by a systemic cluster sampling survey conducted from 20 June to 30 November 2013. The SPSS softwar...

Objectives To examine depression and suicidal behaviour and associated factors in a sample of medical students in Portugal. Methods We conducted a cross-sectional study design of 456 native Portuguese medical students from the 4th and 5th year at the University of Lisbon. Participants answered a self-report survey including questions on demographic and clinical variables. Statistical analyses...

The scientific literature is abundant regarding control charts in multivariate environments for numerical and mixed data; however, there are few publications qualitative data. Qualitative variables provide valuable information on processes various industrial, productive, technological, health contexts. Social no exception. There multiple nominal ordinal categorical used economics, psychology, l...