The functional outcome was determined as equal or worse by a systematic comparison of the preoperative walking distance and the walking distance in the 12th postoperative month. A five-stage scoring system was used according to possible walking distance: unlimited walking distance, walking distance up...
Fowler (1999)does not provide objective criteria to identify code smells. He says that one needs to develop its own sense of observation about attributes that could characterize pieces of code as a smell. One has, for example, to develop its own sense of how many lines of code define a l...
Tracking error is thedivergencebetween the price behavior of a position or a portfolio and the price behavior of a benchmark. This is often in the context of a hedge fund, mutual fund, or exchange-traded fund (ETF) that did not work as effectively as intended, creating an unexpected profit...
Infectious disease pandemics have a lasting impact on mental health38,39. The following study showed that psychological distress slowly declined over 28 months during an avian influenza pandemic38; another study showed that among those infected with SARS, the psychiatric effects were long-term39. ...
Thus, the sum is equal to 1 for the entire set [52]. An advantage of MCA is that it can explain large and complex datasets using information visualization, which can be interpreted by examining the distribution of each group of variables. These groups of variables constitute a cloud. Points...
We can see that when the disinfection frequency is greater than or equal to once per 8 journeys, the parameters are statistically significant and negative. However, when the disinfection frequency reaches once per 4 journeys, the parameters become positive. The results are understandable because high...
Considering that gender differences in the prevalences and the risk factors of overweight and obesity had been found in previous studies [18, 19], all analyses were done separately for men and women in this paper. 1. The standardized prevalences According to the WHO BMI cut-offs, the ...
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The prevalence of smoking among young adults in Thailand has gradually increased. Therefore, this study aimed to identify factors associated with cigarette smoking among undergraduate students. This cross-sectional study used a self-administered, anonymo
In the case of dichotomous exposure, summary exposure value is equal to prevalence. For continuous risks, summary exposure value is defined as follows: Where (χ) is the density of exposure at level χ of exposure; (χ) is the RR of the level χ; and RRmax is the highest RR that is...