BACKGROUND Patient satisfaction is the ultimate goal of healthcare system which can be achieved from good patient-healthcare professional relationship and quality of healthcare services provided. Study was conducted to determine the baseline satisfaction level of newly diagnosed diabetics and to explore the impact of pharmaceutical care intervention on patients' satisfaction during their follow...

C# 2013, Delphi XE6, and Python 3.4 are the newest and most popular programming languages. These programming languages become more popular every passing day. In this study, the response times, memory usages, and code lengths of these languages were tested in various workloads. Whether or not there was any significant difference between the data obtained from workloads was tested via the Friedma...

PURPOSE To study age-related changes in corneal deformation response to air-puff applanation tonometry. METHODS Fifty healthy subjects were recruited for a prospective study and divided into two equal age groups (≤ 28 and ≥ 50 years old). Up to three measurements by a corneal deformation analyser based on the Scheimpflug principle were performed on the left eye of each subject. Raw Scheimpflu...

Comparative Series A series of 452 comparisons was made in this laboratory between the Galli Mainini pregnancy test, using the English male toad, Bufo bufo, and routine Friedman pregnancy tests. The latter were made in this laboratory by Dr. A. L. Taylor, and in the University of Bristol Department of Preventive Medicine by Professor K. E. Cooper. The series covered the period from March, 1950,...

Background and aims. Standard treatment of oral lichen planus (OLP) includes topical or systemic corticosteroids that have many adverse effects. A trend toward alternative natural or herbal drugs has attended recently. This study was conducted to evaluate the effect of quercetin in treatment of erosive-atrophic OLP. Materials and methods. Thirty patients participated in this randomized clinical...

Parametric methods are commonly used despite evidence that model assumptions are often violated. Various statistical procedures have been suggested for analyzing data from multiple-group repeated measures (i.e., split-plot) designs when parametric model assumptions are violated (e.g., Akritas and Arnold (J. Amer. Statist. Assoc. 89 (1994) 336); Brunner and Langer (Biometrical J. 42 (2000) 663))...

In the context of flexible exchange rates, Milton Friedman proposed that speculation must exert a stabilising influence upon prices to remain profitable. This generated a wealth of predominantly theoretical research into the behaviour of speculators, for which the results seem to depend critically upon the assumptions. Such theoretical models need to be tested against empirical evidence to dete...

Cortisol is the main glucocorticoid (GC) hormone in pigs associated with stress response. It is well known that GCs levels are not stable during the day; their concentration is a circadian variable with the peak in the morning and the nadir in the night (in diurnal animals). Circadian variation is present during postnatal ontogeny. The onset of th...