Logical reasoning is crucial in science, but we know that this is not something that humans are innately good at. It becomes even harder to reason logically about data when there is uncertainty, because there is always a chance of being wrong. Dealing with uncertainty is inevitable, for example, in situations in which the evaluation of sample outcomes with respect to some population is required...

General societal attitudes on induced abortion can influence the health sector policy response towards providing safe services. This study aimed to develop a scale and evaluate validity reliability measure public legislation. An was developed by adapting existing scales finalized with experts’ opinions. interview schedule administered among 728 adults residents in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Validity w...

Canonical correspondence analysis and redundancy analysis are two methods of constrained ordination regularly used in the analysis of ecological data when ordinations based on several response variables (for example, species abundances) are related linearly to several explanatory variables (for example, environmental variables, spatial positions of samples). In this report I demonstrate the adv...

INTRODUCTION It is not clear in the literature whether available instruments are sufficient to measure alexithymia because of its theoretical structure. Moreover, it has been reported that several measuring instruments are needed to measure this construct, and all the instruments have different error sources. The old and the new forms of Toronto Alexithymia Scale are the only instruments availa...