Objective To analyze communication skills of pediatric postgraduate residents in clinical encounter by using video recordings. Methods This qualitative exploratory research was conducted through video recording at The Children's Hospital Lahore, Pakistan. Residents who had attended the mandatory communication skills workshop offered by CPSP were included. The video recording of clinical encou...

A retrospective review was conducted at an academic trauma center to determine whether fracture characteristics or aspects of native anatomy are predictive of early failure after fixation of posterior wall acetabular fractures. A chart review of posterior wall acetabular fractures treated from 2004 to 2009 yielded the study group that met the inclusion criteria. The study group included 18 cons...

THE MANUSCRIPT Among the manuscripts bearing mainly on Maltese ecclesiastical affairs, preserved in the archives of the Cathedral at Mdina, one occasionally comes across documents containing material of interest to the medical historian. One such manuscript of the mid-sixteenth century deals with the procedure for the annulment of marriage on medical grounds. The manuscript consists of four fol...

A new genus and species from Kenya, Afroprinus cavicola is herein described and illustrated and its systematic position is discussed. By the prosternal pre-apical foveae connected by marginal prosternal stria it resembles most of the Afrotropical species of the genus Chalcionellus Reichardt, 1932, or some species of the genus Pholioxenus Reichardt, 1932 from South Africa and Namibia. Afroprinus...

In all ages, “philosophers and artists have proposed definitions of Beauty; thanks to their testimonies can thus reconstruct a history of aesthetic ideas over the time. But other things were with the idea of Ugly. Most often, Ugly was defined in opposition to the Beauty, but almost never have been dedicated ample studies, but some hints in parenthesis or some marginal notes” as U. Eco asserts (...

I compute the structure of the restricted 2–algebra associated to a group first described by Andrew Brunner, Said Sidki and Ana Cristina Vieira, acting on the binary rooted tree [4]. I show that its width is unbounded, growing logarithmically, and obeys a simple rule. As a consequence, the dimension of $n/$n+1 (where $ < 2Γ is the augmentation ideal), is p(0)+ · · ·+ p(n), the total number of p...

transmission of human pathogens can be occurred via inert objects. paper currency is a further common contact surface whereby pathogens can be transferred within a population although the significance remains unknown. hence, the aim of the present study was to investigate microbial populations associated with iranian paper currency.this study was carried out by getting 108 samples of the irania...

This notes reviews the basics about the Expectation-Maximization (EM) algorithm, a popular approach to perform model estimation of the generative model with latent variables. We first describe the E-steps and M-steps, and then use finite mixture model as an example to illustrate this procedure in practice. Finally, we discuss its intrinsic relations with an optimization problem, which reveals t...

PURPOSE The panel study design is commonly used to evaluate the short-term health effects of air pollution. Standard statistical methods are available for analyzing longitudinal data, but the literature reveals that these methods are poorly understood by practitioners. METHODS We review standard statistical methods for modeling longitudinal data. Marginal, conditional, and transitional approa...