Equitable access to programs and health services is essential to achieving national and international health goals, but it is rarely assessed because of perceived measurement challenges. One of these challenges concerns the complexities of collecting the data needed to construct asset or wealth indices, which can involve asking as many as 40 survey questions, many with multiple responses. To de...

BACKGROUND AND STUDY AIMS Endoscopic mucosal resection (EMR) plays an important role in the staging of Barrett's esophagus (BE) and the evaluation of high grade dysplasia (HGD). The study aim is to assess the interobserver agreement among gastroenterologists expert in BE endotherapy, gastroenterologists without specified expertise in BE endotherapy, and gastroenterology trainees in recommending...

BACKGROUND Prechtl's method on the qualitative assessment of general movements (GMs) has been shown to be a good predictor of neurological outcome. There is substantial evidence that this method has good inter- and intra-observer agreement. AIMS We wanted to find out whether this high agreement is reproducible in the clinical setting. STUDY DESIGN Reliability study (inter- and intra-observe...

Seafood constitutes the primary source of exposure to organic form mercury in general population, and Trieste Gulf is considered a hotspot contamination. We used newly developed quantitative food frequency questionnaire obtain an estimation intake through seafood consumption sample 32 individuals from Trieste. Then, we validated results obtained against those analysis total measured hair same S...

The validity and reliability of the use of photographs to assess active trachoma and scarring was studied in a village where the disease was hyperendemic. One hundred and thirty six subjects were graded clinically and had photographs taken of the upper tarsal plate. Agreement between the clinical grade in the field and the grade on the photograph was very good for follicular trachoma, severe tr...

In this paper we illustrate the Geo Data Annotator (GDA), a framework which helps a user to build a ground-truth dataset, starting from two separate geographical datasets. GDA exploits two kinds of indices to ease the task of manual annotation: geographical-based and string-based. GDA provides also a mechanism to evaluate the quality of the built ground-truth dataset. This is achieved through a...

OBJECTIVE This study objective was to evaluate interobserver agreement between individual pairs of three nuclear medicine physicians in interpretation of renal cortical scintigraphy in children with respect to the mode of acquisition (planar vs. SPECT), diagnoses and kidney site (left vs. right). MATERIALS AND METHODS Thirty children were imaged in planar and SPECT mode per protocol upon the ...

as we know that with the help of Data mining techniques we can find out knowledge in terms of various characteristics and patterns. In this regard this paper presents finding out of anomalies/ outliers using various decision tree based classifiers viz. Best-first Decision Tree, Functional Tree, Logistic Model Tree, J48 and Random Forest decision tree. Three real world datasets has been used in ...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study is to compare the visibility of microcalcifications of digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) and full-field digital mammography (FFDM) using breast specimens. MATERIALS AND METHODS Thirty-one specimens' DBT and FFDM were retrospectively reviewed by four readers. RESULTS The image quality of microcalcifications of DBT was rated as superior or equivalent in 71.0...

Automatic paraphrasing is an important component in many natural language processing tasks. In this article we present a new parallel corpus with paraphrase annotations. We adopt a definition of paraphrase based on word alignments and show that it yields high inter-annotator agreement. As Kappa is suited to nominal data, we employ an alternative agreement statistic which is appropriate for stru...