background: municipal solid waste (msw) is the natural result of human activities. msw generation modeling is of prime im­portance in designing and programming municipal solid waste management system. this study tests the short-term pre­diction of waste generation by artificial neural network (ann) and principal component-regression analysis. methods: two forecasting techniques are presented in...

Several recent prospective studies have demonstrated the existence of a preclinical stage of dementia, identifiable by neuropsychological assessment showing impairments with a great variety of cognitive tests. However, test scores are often colinear, largely because common cognitive components are involved in different tests; in spite of an apparent heterogeneity, it is still possible that a co...

INTRODUCTION The biological behaviour of meningiomas and the risk of recurrence in individual cases cannot be predicted by using conventional histological criteria alone. A number of histologically benign meningiomas may recur, even after gross complete surgical removal. MATERIAL AND METHODS A retrospective immunohistochemical and statistical analysis of 60 patients with benign intracranial m...

The general purpose of this study was to examine the efficiency of the Precision Efficacy Analysis for Regression (PEAR) method for choosing appropriate sample sizes in regression studies used for precision. The PEAR method, which is based on the algebraic manipulation of an accepted cross-validity formula, essentially uses an effect size to determine the subject-to-variable ratio appropriate f...

B ecause cardiovascular disease (CVD) can be prevented by changing the lifestyles, early selection of high-risk patients is essential. Though the relationship between polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) and CVD has been well known, it has not been established yet which test should be performed for early prediction of CVD in PCOS (1). Glycemic parameters, such as elevated fasting glucose (FG) or 2-...

As a journal editor, I am frequently asked what constitutes an exceptional research article (Hagger, 2012). I usually respond by recommending Skinner’s (1996) seminal guide to constructs of control as a prototypical example. When I was a doctoral student Skinner’s article was extremely influential to my work. It not only helped me make sense of the myriad of constructs and terms used to describ...

One of the topical problems of the economics sciences and practices is Latvian national economy risk management scientific basis working out. The main tasks of risk management are risk management methodology elaboration, identification of risk factors, analysis, assessment, acceptation of decision, components and principles of monitoring and adaptation to Latvia’s conditions. The main component...

Excellent summary of results, however the sentences in lines 7 and 13 are difficult to understand and need to be re-written. Reply: Abstract-Line 7 was changed to “...using moderation and mediation models.” Abstract-Line 13 was changed to “Moderation and mediation by perceived social support in the relationship between resilience and burden were tested using Hayes’ PROCESS macro after controlli...