BACKGROUND The Questionnaire for Verifying Stroke-free Status (QVSFS) has been validated in Western populations as a method for verifying stroke-free status in participants of clinical, epidemiological and genetic studies. This instrument has not been validated in low-income settings where populations have limited knowledge of stroke symptoms and literacy levels are low. OBJECTIVE To simultan...

Neuroscientific investigations regarding aspects of emotional experiences usually focus on one stimulus modality (e.g., pictorial or verbal). Similarities and differences in the processing between the different modalities have rarely been studied directly. The comparison of verbal and pictorial emotional stimuli often reveals a processing advantage of emotional pictures in terms of larger or mo...

BACKGROUND The assessment of dental anxiety among children will aid in dealing with management issues related to dental treatment. There is no study available from Pakistan on dental anxiety in children. The aim of this study was to assess the prevalence of dental anxiety in children attending a teaching dental hospital in Islamabad, Pakistan. METHODS A cross-sectional study was conducted on ...

Abstract Background Several epidemiological and cohort studies suggest that regular low-dose aspirin use independently reduces the long-term incidence risk of colorectal cancer deaths by approximately 20%. However, there are also risks to use, mainly gastrointestinal bleeding haemorrhagic stroke. Making informed decisions depends on ability understand weigh up benefits available options. A deci...

This paper presents a mult i-class AdaBoost based on incorporating an ensemble of binary AdaBoosts which is organized as Binary Decision Tree (BDT). It is proved that binary AdaBoost is ext remely successful in producing accurate classification but it does not perform very well for multi-class problems. To avoid this performance degradation, the multi-class problem is div ided into a number of ...

BACKGROUND Over-the-counter (OTC) labels help support safe medication use by consumers. In 2012, the Australian Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) released a consultation paper proposing OTC label standardization to improve label quality via implementation of the Medicine Information Box (MIB) label. However, consumer opinions of the MIB and standardization of OTC labelling remain unexplore...

We present in this paper an alternative communication system for disabled persons. Alternative communication primarily relies on an alternative access to the computer and has to take into account the communication situation together with the user’s characteristics. The PCA system (where PCA stands for Alternative Communication Platform) proposes various techniques and accessibility methods to a...

As we receive 80 % of information visually, we can say that the age of visual communications in which we live belongs to signs. In this essay we do not observe signs individually, but as a part of organized Information and Communication systems [1]. High mobility of population nowadays more than ever involves the awareness of signs and their meanings, whether they are related to traffic, orient...

The objective of this paper is to investigate a new approach based on the idea of pictograms for food portion size. This approach adopts the model of the United States PharmacopeiaDrug Information (USP-DI). The representation of each food portion size composed of three parts: frame, the connotation of dietary portion sizes and layout. To investigate users’ comprehension based on this approach, ...

The rising epidemic of diabetes imposes a substantial economic burden on the Middle East. Using baseline data from a population based cohort study, we aimed to identify the correlates of diabetes mellitus (DM) in a mainly rural population from Iran. Between 2004 and 2007, 50044 adults between 30 and 87 years old from Golestan Province located in Northeast Iran were enrolled in the Golestan Coho...