Reboxetine is the first selective Norepinephrine Reuptake Inhibitor (NRI). There are limited numbers of quantitative synthesis studies of the efficacy of this drug in treating depressive disorders. We have meta-analyzed the efficacy of the reboxetine using both continuous and dichotomous outcome measures. Data was collected from the Pubmed search of English-language studies published from 1997 ...

since the promenades allocate the part of the country's revenues, therefore, attention to its valuation is very important. springs in desert area are the most prominent of natural landscapes. more study in country investigates recreational value using double– bounded dichotomous choice. but in this study, single-bounded dichotomous choice has been used because of this approach is more like...

Consensus means general agreement among possibly di erent views, while dichotomus voting rules are a means of making decisions by using votes to settle di erences of view. How then can it often be the case that a committee whose only formal mechanism for decision-making is a dichotomus voting rule reaches a consensus? In this paper, based on a game-theoretic model developed in three previous pa...

BACKGROUND Evidence-based medicine posits that health care research is founded upon clinically important differences in patient centered outcomes. Statistically significant differences between two treatments may not necessarily reflect a clinically important difference. We aimed to quantify the sample sizes and magnitude of treatment effects in a review of orthopaedic randomized trials with sta...

Many hard computational social choice problems are known to become tractable when voters’ preferences belong to a restricted domain, such as those of singlepeaked or single-crossing preferences. However, to date, all algorithmic results of this type have been obtained for the setting where each voter’s preference list is a total order of candidates. The goal of this paper is to extend this line...

In this paper we provide a general model of ‘quaternary’dichotomous voting rules (QVRs), namely, voting rules for making collective dichotomous decisions (to accept or reject a proposal), based on vote pro…les in which four options are available to each voter: voting (‘yes’, ‘no’or ‘abstaining’) or staying home and not turning out. The model covers most of actual real-world dichotomus rules, wh...

In 2009, we reported findings from the first study evaluating the relationship between canine longevity and number of years of lifetime ovary exposure. All previous studies examining gonadal influences on canine longevity relied upon categorizing females as "intact" or "spayed" based on gonadal status at the time of death. Our study of Rottweilers generated a novel result: Keeping ovaries longe...

Cross-asset derivative securities are studied and a dichotomous asset pricing model (DAPM) is derived that significantly enriches the Sharpe-Lintner-Black capital asset pricing model. An assets beta is shown to be observable ex ante through the price of its cross-market call or put, and the DAPM separately predicts the assets’ expected return beta relations under the upper-market and lower-mark...