A first look at the literacy of America's adults in the 21st century. [http://nces.ed.gov/naal] OECD: Learning a living: first results of the adult literacy and life skills survey. Catalogue no. 89-603-XWE: Statistics Canada. Ottawa and Paris. Organisation for Economic Co-operation ...
Viera Scheibner, PhD -"Ever since mass vaccination of infants began, reports of serious brain, cardiovascular, metabolic and other injuries started filling pages of medical journals." In fact, pertussis vaccine has been used to induce encephalomyelitis, which is characterized by brain swelling and he...
Automated depression assessment systems can play an important role in helping doctors diagnose and make decisions related to depression. Diagnosing depression can be difficult because symptoms may be episodic and multiple disorders may occur simultaneously, as demonstrated by the low inter-rater reliability...
This is the first CMS star rating for home health agencies. The agency uses as a measure of evaluation the survey results of patients, family members, and the friends of patients. Scroll down to see the full list of star ratings The Home Health Care Consumer Assessment of Health...
which were represented by two distinct variables. First, a dummy variable that captured whether a household had experienced at least one of the identified shocks in the data set was used to measure shocks. Second, we calculated the magnitude of the shocks and the variety of shocks that the ho...
First, eating probiotic-based foods is more ap- propriate and practical than taking supplements. Second, only the short-term effect of the intervention will be investigated because patients will be treated for only 4 months. Third, the levels of inflammatory and oxidative stress factors will be ...
Besides, 5.4 % (95 % CI, 3.0, 7.8) of children were hospitalised during the first days of their life (neonatal hospitalisation). Table 1 Averages and prevalences of the characteristics of children younger than 2 years old (Brazil, NDHS, 2006) Full size table The independent variables and...
Understanding continuity and coordination of care is vital for delivering and utilizing primary health care (PHC) (PHC covers the principle of equity, intersectorality, community participation, and affordable/appropriate care) and primary care (PC) (primary level of care where people make first contac...
which were represented by two distinct variables. First, a dummy variable that captured whether a household had experienced at least one of the identified shocks in the data set was used to measure shocks. Second, we calculated the magnitude of the shocks and the variety of shocks that the ho...
first few seconds of speech perform better than the entire recording125. Another interesting approach to emotion elicitation is to use virtual agents for interviews, which can reduce data collection costs and can be less stressful for participants when discussing their symptoms. Multiple articles have ...