abstract background: women’s sexual self‑esteem is one of the most important factors that affect women’s sexual satisfaction and their sexual anxiety. various aspects of sexual life are blended with the entire personality. determining the relationship between personality traits and self‑concept aspects such as sexual self‑esteem leads to better understanding of sexual behavior in people with di...

The cross-correlation coefficient between neural spike trains is a commonly used tool in the study of neural interactions. Two well-known complications that arise in its interpretation are 1) modulations in the correlation coefficient may result solely from changes in the mean firing rate of the cells and 2) the mean firing rates of the neurons impose upper and lower bounds on the correlation c...

the current study examined interrelation of affectivity, emotional intelligence and personality and their roles in sport coaches’ transformational leadership style using their disposition. data are collected from 206 sport coaches. pearson correlation coefficient was used to analyze data. the results showed a positive deep relationship between positive affectivity with personality (r=0.251, p

The data scientists usually define a data type based on a nature of variables and select an appropriate correlation measure. However, this is not convenient and very time-consuming in data intensive domains. I propose to detect the types of variables and choose the appropriate correlation coefficient in order to automate the statistical procedure of correlation estimating from mixed data. This ...

INTRODUCTION: Patient satisfaction becomes more important in our modern health care system. The assessment of satisfaction is difficult because it is a multifactorial item for which no golden standard exists. One of the potential methods of measuring satisfaction is by using the well-known visual analogue scale (VAS). In this study, we validated VAS for satisfaction. PATIENT AND METHODS: In th...

INTRODUCTION It is important to create a body of evidence surrounding the reliability of certain diagnostic criteria. While the reliability of the Cobb measurement is well established with various licensed health care professionals, this study aims to determine the inter- and intra-observer reliability of the Cobb Measurement among chiropractic interns. METHODS Fourteen chiropractic interns a...

PURPOSE The aim of this study was to compare the use of 3-dimensional (3D) laser scanning and cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) as methods of root surface measurement. MATERIALS AND METHODS Thirty teeth (15 maxillary first premolars and 15 mandibular first premolars) from 8 patients who required extractions for orthodontic treatment were selected. Before extraction, pre-treatment CBCT imag...

In medicine and social sciences, data are often collected in the form of nominal or ordinal scale of measurement. When data are collected in form of interval or ratio scale of measurement they are usually reduced into either nominal or ordinal form for easy analysis,; thus, this work considered the possible effect of loss of information in reducing scales of measurement when data in form of int...

OBJECTIVES The aim of the study is to determine the concordance between the PROCAM (Prospective Cardiovascular Münster) and Framingham scales in patients receiving highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART). MATERIALS AND METHODS A cross sectional study was conducted in HIV-positive male population who use HAART in a national reference hospital located in Lima, Peru. To evaluate the concord...