background. the aim of this study was to assess the relationship between genetic taste sensitivity, dietary preferences and salivary flow rate in 6‒14-year-old children for identification of individuals at higher risk of developing dental caries. methods. a total of 500 children 6‒14 years of age, of both genders, who reported to the department of oral medicine and radiology, were included. pro...

background :score, ost and orai risk assessment tools could reduce the cost burden of bmd tests by selecting the high risk patients to osteoporosis. in this study we compared the ability of these risk assessment measures to assess probability of the osteoporosis among post-menopausal women.   methods : 211 post-menopausal women aged 45-88 years enrolled into the study. all of the patients under...

introduction: this study aims at determining and comparing braden and waterlow predictive tools as well as determining the cut off point of these scales. methods: this was a cross-sectional study which was carried out on 1864 patients admitted to imam hossein hospital in shahroud. the data collection instruments included braden and waterlow risk–assessment scales and a skin assessment tool. the...

Abstract A common approach to estimation of dynamic economic models is calibrate a subset model parameters and keep them fixed when estimating the remaining parameters. Calibrated likely affect conclusions based on model, but time often makes systematic investigation sensitivity calibrated infeasible. I propose simple computationally low-cost measure other objects interest In main empirical app...

This paper discusses and analyzes risk measure properties in order to understand how a risk measure has to be used to optimize the investor’s portfolio choices. In particular, we distinguish between two admissible classes of risk measures proposed in the portfolio literature: safety risk measures and dispersion measures. We study and describe how the risk could depend on other distributional pa...

background: considering the existence of controversies about the predictive value of inflammatory markers for cardiovascular disease (cvd), we aimed to compare the level of high?sensitivity c?reactive protein (hs?crp) and interlukin?6 (il?6) level in chronic hemodialysis (hd) patients with and without cvd. materials and methods: in this historical cohort study, hd patients with and without cvd ...