INTRODUCTION Using cross-sectional survey data, we assessed the association between chronic illness burden and health-related self-efficacy, evaluating whether patient-centered communication is associated with self-efficacy and if that relationship varies by chronic illness burden. METHODS Data were from the Health Information National Trends Survey, a cross-sectional survey of the US adult p...

because of its widespread needs in different scientific fields, statistics and probability theory have gained great importance and medical students as well as students of other medically related disciplines including nursing need to use them especially in their research projects in undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate schools. this article deals with the question of finding the most effecti...

Introduction: Graph theoretical analysis of functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) data has provided new measures of mapping human brain in vivo. Of all methods to measure the functional connectivity between regions, Linear Correlation (LC) calculation of activity time series of the brain regions as a linear measure is considered the most ubiquitous one. The strength of the dependence obl...

Abstract Let $$R_n $$ be the centered and normalized number of cycles fixed length contained in a generalized random graph with $$n vertices. We obtain Höffding-type exponential inequality for tail probability $$R_n$$ .

Despite the recent progress in Graph Neural Networks (GNNs), it remains challenging to explain predictions made by GNNs. Existing explanation methods mainly focus on post-hoc explanations where another explanatory model is employed provide for a trained GNN. The fact that fail reveal original reasoning process of GNNs raises need building with built-in interpretability. In this work, we propose...

This paper is concerned with a new distance in undirected graphs with weighted edges, which gives new insights into the structure of all minimum spanning trees of a graph. This distance is a generalized one, in the sense that it takes values in a certain Heyting semigroup. More precisely, it associates with each pair of distinct vertices in a connected component of a graph the set of all paths ...

Background: Stroke affects the quality of life of patients and their families. Participation of the family in caring for these patients is inevitable. Implementing an empowerment program to increase knowledge, motivation, self-esteem and self-efficacy of patients leads to an improve in the quality of their life. Accordingly, this study aimed at determining the effect of a program based on the f...