BACKGROUND The aim of this study is to compare two methods for measuring fecal calprotectin (FC) concentration and to evaluate the possibility of differentiation between microscopic colitis (MC) and irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). METHODS Twenty-three patients with MC (six patients with active disease and 17 patients retested in remission) and 20 patients with IBS were prospectively included ...

Prior research has yielded mixed results regarding what contributes to psychometrically sound multiple-choice (MC) items. The purpose of the present study was, therefore, twofold: (a) to compare 3-, 4-, and 5-option multiple-choice (MC) tests in terms of psychometric characteristics, and (b) to investigate the relationships between three MC tests and five personality traits. To that end, 150 st...

The Social Attribution Task-Multiple Choice (SAT-MC) uses a 64-second video of geometric shapes set in motion to portray themes of social relatedness and intentions. Considered a test of "Theory of Mind," the SAT-MC assesses implicit social attribution formation while reducing verbal and basic cognitive demands required of other common measures. We present a comparability analysis of the SAT-MC...

Five classification algorithms namely J48, Naive Bayes, Multilayer Perceptron, IBK and Bayes Net are evaluated using Mc Nemar’s test over datasets including both nominal and numeric attributes. It was found that Multilayer Perceptron performed better than the two other classification methods for both nominal and numerical datasets. Furthermore, it was observed that the results of our evaluation...

BACKGROUND Self-reported male circumcision (MC) status is widely used to estimate community prevalence of circumcision, although its accuracy varies in different settings depending on the extent of misreporting. Despite this challenge, self-reported MC status remains essential because it is the most feasible method of collecting MC status data in community surveys. Therefore, its accuracy is an...

In his article on poetry in health care education, Neil Pickering puts forward an argument of radical unpredictability: as we can never know in advance how a poem will be interpreted, it can be of no external use.(1) It is, however, exactly this potential to give rise to multiple interpretations that makes the poem valuable. We hold that the poem should be read and discussed with no other inten...

Given the large domain of inputs and possibly too many possible execution paths, the software is often tested using a sampled set of test cases. A variety of coverage criteria have been proposed to assess the effectiveness of the sampled set of test cases. As far as structural testing involving predicate evaluation is concerned, criteria exercising aspects of control flow, such as statement, br...

We present a method for automatically generating tests for reactive systems specified by concurrently executing extended finite state machines. The generated test suites satisfy the modified condition/decision coverage criterion at unit and integration levels. The generation of MC/DC suites for eager first-order functional programs is subsumed. An industrial chip card case study illustrates the...

This paper describes the development of the motorcycle (MC) model and validation using a MC – wall Full Scale Test (FST). Individual components like the seat, tires and shock absorbers were tested as per procedures given in ISO13232 [5] and their FE models were validated against the component test data. A crash test of the motorcycle with a rigid wall had been conducted. There is a reasonable m...

Objective: The main aim of this study was to compare fracture load and fracture mode of yttria-stabilized tetragonal zirconia polycrystal (Y-TZP) and metal-ceramic (MC) molar crowns using a modified test set-up to produce fractures similar to those seen in vivo, i.e. fractures of the veneering material rather than complete fractures. Materials and methods: 13 high-noble-alloy MC and 13 Y-TZP mo...