Background: Invasive procedures could change the physiological responses of neonates. The present study aimed to evaluate the effect of the sound of the Holy Quran on the physiological responses and pain caused by heel stick blood sampling in neonates. Methods: This three-stage, two-group, clinical trial was conducted on 72 hospitalized term neonates at the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) ...

The review of author’s publications is presented. All papers are based on the same methodological approach: the statistical description of the Sampling Reconstruction Procedure (SRP) is given on the basis of the classical conditional mean rule which provides the minimum reconstruction error. There are two cases of non uniform sampling: the sample location is arbitrary and known and the location...

This paper provides an updated review of Monte Carlo simulation. The use of random sampling, its consequences in simulation, the use of descriptive sampling, its advantages, its limits and its improvement upon the precision of simulation estimates: Refined descriptive sampling. This state of the art gives also an insight into other sampling procedures used in the literature, like Ranked set sam...