The Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) is widely used to assess depression in chronic pain despite doubts about its structure and therefore its interpretation. This study used a large sample of 1947 patients entering chronic pain management to establish the structure of the BDI. The sample was randomly divided to conduct separate exploratory (EFA) and confirmatory factor analyses (CFA). EFA produc...

on the eve of 14th year of publication of “negin iran: a quarterly for studies of iran-iraq war” and after the release of an index for the first 28 issues of the quarterly published in 29th issue, the journal executive editor decided to release another index for the numbers of 1-50 in the new release of the quarterly to be used by the related researchers and those interested in this field of st...

This paper overviews the problem of automated generation of assessment test items from natural-language text. In a previously published article, an experimental system aimed at generating fill-in-theblank test items from Russian text was decribed. In this paper, some aspects of the system’s quality are analyzed. Main directions for future work are defined, including evaluation of the system and...

We consider a variant of the knapsack problem, where items are available with different possible weights. Using a separate budget for these item improvements, the question is: Which items should be improved to which degree such that the resulting classic knapsack problem yields maximum profit? We present a detailed analysis for several cases of improvable knapsack problems, presenting constant ...

First experiences with utilization of formalized items of domain knowledge in a process of association rules mining are described. We use association rules atomic consequences of items of domain knowledge and suitable deduction rules to filter out uninteresting association rules. The approach is experimentally implemented in the LISp–Miner system. PUBLISHED IN: Foundations of Intelligent System...

BACKGROUND : "Diagnostic accuracy" refers to the ability of medical tests to provide accurate information about diagnosis, prognosis, risk of disease, and other clinical issues. Published reports on diagnostic accuracy of medical tests frequently fail to adhere to minimal clinical epidemiological standards, and such failures lead to overly optimistic assessments of evaluated tests. Our aim was ...

Acknowledgement The information is this paper is published with kind agreement of the companies responsible for the research contract, namely Nuclear Electric Limited, Scottish Nuclear Limited, British Nuclear Fuels Limited and Magnox plc. NPL and Druck Ltd acknowledge these companies support and thank them for their agreement to publish this paper. Summary This research study is divided into a...

INTRODUCTION Surgical retained items (RSIs) are associated with increase in perioperative morbidity and mortality. We used a large national database to investigate the incidence, trends and possible predictors for RSIs after major abdominal and pelvic procedures. METHODS The nationwide inpatient sample data were queried to identify patients who underwent major abdominal and pelvic procedures ...

BACKGROUND AND AIM: Proper scientific reporting is necessary to ensure correct interpretation of study results by readers. Systematic reviews (SRs) are of critical importance in evidence-based dentistry. This study assessed the reporting quality of published dental SRs in Iran.METHODS: The PubMed and ISI electronic databases were searched to collect published Iranian dental SRs up to the end of...

When homeopathy is tested in clinical trials, understanding and appraisal is likely to be improved if published reports contain details of prescribing strategies and treatments. An international Delphi panel was convened to develop consensus guidelines for reporting homeopathic methods and treatments. The panel agreed 28 treatment- and provider-specific items that supplement the Consolidated St...