This study examined the magnitude of differences in standard scores, convergent validity, and concurrent validity when an individual's performance was gauged using the revised and the normative update (Woodcock, 1998) editions of the Woodcock Reading Mastery Test in which the actual test items remained identical but norms have been updated. From three metropolitan areas, 899 first to third grad...

In this post hoc analysis we compared glycaemic control and hypoglycaemia between insulin glargine 300 U/mL (Gla-300) and glargine 100 U/mL (Gla-100) administered once daily in people with type 2 diabetes (T2DM) from the EDITION 1 (basal plus mealtime insulin) and EDITION 2 (basal insulin plus oral antihyperglycaemic drugs) trials who were previously receiving twice-daily insulin. At randomizat...

The present study aims to compare the 7(th) and the proposed 8(th) edition of the AJCC/UICC TNM staging system for NSCLC in a cohort of patients from a single institution. A total of 408 patients with NSCLC who underwent radical surgery were analyzed retrospectively. Survivals were analyzed using the Kaplan -Meier method and were compared using the log-rank test. Multivariate analysis was perfo...

a new edition was brought out at every decade. This proves its popularity among the students and health workers for whom it is meant. This is the fifth edition of the book published by Dr. Wilson with the assistance of Mr. Fisher. In this new edition the contents have been rearranged by adding an indexed list of statutes and statutory instruments, and the readability has been increased by multi...

Introduction. Setting up “Clinical Skills Labs” has been started in some Iranian medical universities since five years ago. In an educational workshop for Clinical Skills Labs managers in January 2001, many managers stated that if there were standards for these centers it would help them define the necessities of the center. These standards would also make the basis for internal and external ev...

Welcome to this special edition of Autonomous Robots (AURO) that features some of the papers from the tenth Robotics: Science & Systems (RSS) conference. The conference was held in June 2014 at the University of California, Berkeley. The papers were carefully selected for this edition out of the conference papers that had already gone through a highly competitive selection process. We hope that...

Book details 2nd edition. Oxford University Press . ISBN-13: 978-0-19856757-8. 212 pages, blue and black layout, with numerous numbers of tables, pictures, key boxes. 1 June 2006 Review This is the 'Oncology' theme book from the popular collection of core textbooks of various medical specialties published by the Oxford University Press (the others include 'Endocrinology', 'Neurology' and 'Haema...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the validity of the sixth edition of the American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC) staging system for sinonasal squamous cell carcinoma. DESIGN A 15-year retrospective case series review. SETTING Multicenter study from tertiary care facilities. PATIENTS Data from 113 patients diagnosed as having and treated for sinonasal squamous cell carcinoma from September 1988...

CONTEXT The World Health Organization (WHO) recently published its 4th edition of the classification of tumors of the central nervous system, incorporating a substantial number of important changes to the previous version (WHO 2000). The new WHO classification introduces 7 changes in the grading of central nervous system neoplasms, ranging in significance from minor to major, in categories of a...