conclusions marital status may affect mets risk z score differently in both genders. results in comparison to participants who were married, no significant changes in mets risk z score was found in single participants. employed females in the transition to married group had significant increase in mets risk z score than single employed females. no significant changes in mets risk z score were o...

The objective of the article is to produce and validate a statistical model for quantifying performance family firms. Such aim will be achieved through analysis sample 27 entities from “family firms Romania” group. hypothesis underlying specification one according which selected variables distinguish performing non-performing ones, regardless ownership. addresses an alternative possibility asse...

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians are more likely than non-Indigenous Australians to be obese and experience chronic disease in adulthood--conditions linked to being overweight in childhood. Birthweight and prenatal exposures are associated with increased Body Mass Index (BMI) in other populations, but the relationship is unclear for Indigenous children. The Longitudinal Study o...

This study explained the use of standard scores otherwise known as z scores for research in educational management. Since a score is a unit distance between two limits, the individual given a score in percentage might have actually scored between the lower limit and the upper limit of that score. A score therefore represent the mid-point between the lower limit and the upper limit of the score....

OBJECTIVE To develop a composite patient safety score that provides patients, health-care providers, and health-care purchasers with a standardized method to evaluate patient safety in general acute care hospitals in the United States. METHODS The Leapfrog Group sought guidance from a panel of national patient safety experts to develop the composite score. Candidate patient safety performance...

We consider a new discriminative learning approach to sequence labeling based on the statistical concept of the Z -score. Given a training set of pairs of hidden-observed sequences, the task is to determine some parameter values such that the hidden labels can be correctly reconstructed from observations. Maximizing the Z -score appears to be a very good criterion to solve this problem both the...

OBJECTIVE To assess the dependence on fish consumption of families and its impact on nutritional status and neurodevelopment of pre-school children. DESIGN Cross-sectional study that measured children's hair mercury (HHg) as an indicator of family fish consumption, growth (anthropometric Z-scores, WHO standards) and neurological (Gesell developmental scores (GDS)) development. SETTING Tradi...