Improving metabolic control can reduce complications in type 2 diabetes (1–4). Conventional insulin therapy (CIT) and flexible intensive insulin therapy (FIT) are treatment options in insulin-dependent type 2 diabetic patients. In CIT, participants inject premixed human insulin (30% regular insulin, 70% NPH insulin) before breakfast and dinner and follow individually adjusted diet plans with fi...

It has been established that if technology provides a good fit with the task, users will consider the technology to be easy to use, which will affect their intention to use. However, no studies have investigated the conceptualisation and measurement of fit in the Identity Management Systems (IdMS) context. This study conceptualises the concept of fit as moderation (the interaction between task ...

Signal-detection theory, and the analysis of receiver-operating characteristics (ROCs), has played a critical role in the development of theories of episodic memory and perception. The purpose of the current paper is to present the ROC Toolbox. This toolbox is a set of functions written in the Matlab programming language that can be used to fit various common signal detection models to ROC data...

OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to determine what proportion of veterans previously screened for colorectal cancer (CRC) using fecal immunochemical testing (FIT) would be willing to undergo a second round of FIT screening. METHODS Patients in the Iowa City Veterans Affairs Health Care System (<65 years old, asymptomatic, average risk, overdue for CRC screening) who completed a maile...

background and aims. cad/cam systems facilitate the use of zirconia substructure materials for all-ceramic copings. this in vitro study investigated the marginal and internal fit of zirconia copings made with cad/cam system and slip-casting method. materials and methods. sixteen cad/cam made zirconia copings and 16 slip-cast made zirconia copings were fabricated and cemented with glass-ionomer ...

I N B R I E F We are used to thinking of intelligence as largely a matter of genetic inheritance, but that is not the whole picture. What we do aff ects our mental wellbeing: staying physically and mentally active helps us stay sharp as we age. Nevertheless, our personal eff orts to bolster cognitive enhancement cannot forestall all declines in our cognitive performance. What is especially surp...

The apparel e-commerce industry is growing day by day. In recent times, consumers are particularly interested in an easy and time-saving way of online shopping. addition, the COVID-19 pandemic has generated more need for effective convenient shopping solution consumers. However, shopping, several challenges These issues include sizing, fit, return, cost concerns. Especially, fit issue one cardi...

The rank-based fit of a linear model is based on minimizing a norm. A score function needs to be selected for the fit and the proper choice leads to asymptotically efficient regression estimators, i.e., fits equivalent to the maximum likelihood estimators (mle). In this paper, we present the family of optimal scores functions for the skew-normal family of distributions. We show the easy computa...