This study aimed to evaluate the reliability of apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) values generated with two-dimensional turbo gradient- and spin-echo with BLADE trajectory diffusion-weighted imagin...
The objective of the manuscript is to propose a hybrid algorithm combining the improved BM25 algorithm, k-means clustering, and BioBert model to better determine biomedical articles utilizing the PubM...
In the paper, a two-stage information retrieval method is proposed to conduct an improved Text-Rank algorithm. The first stage consists of employing the improved BM25 algorithm to assign scores to bio...
The experimental study is conducted based on the data sets of TREC2017 and TREC2018 to train the proposed model and the data of TREC2019 is used as a validation set confirming the effectiveness and pr...
This research integrates multiple machine learning and text processing methods to devise a hybrid method applicable to domains of specific medical literature retrieval. The proposed algorithm provides...
Cognitive flexibility refers to the ability to switch between different mental sets, tasks, or strategies and is challenging for some individuals with Down syndrome (DS). The lack of reliable and vali...
This study aimed to evaluate the psychometric properties of three measures of cognitive flexibility including Rule-Shift, Weigl Sorting, and KiTAP Flexibility in a sample of 97 youth with DS aged 6-17...
Data were collected at two time points with a two-week interval. Parents also completed adaptive behavior and cognitive flexibility questionnaires. Child cognitive and language abilities were also ass...
The Weigl Sorting met the most psychometric criteria, with adequate feasibility (≥ 80 %) and significant correlations with most of the broader developmental domains; however, the levels of test-retest...
No evaluated measures met all psychometric study criteria and, therefore, additional evaluation of cognitive flexibility measures is needed for use among individuals with DS....
A critical review was completed to evaluate replication of aphasia treatments that have been vetted and accepted on the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Practice Portal....
The electronic databases Academic Search Premier, ProQuest Central, CINAHL Complete, and ERIC were searched for relevant articles using treatment names as keywords. Coders compared stimuli, material, ...
Eighteen treatment approaches were selected for this review. A total of 188 articles met the inclusion criteria. Results revealed that 14 out of 18 treatment approaches were somehow replicated. Direct...
A critical factor in developing an evidence-based practice is the existence of replicated results for treatment. Replication evaluates the reproducibility of an author's or authors' research methodolo...
Pain has been identified as a core outcome for individuals with autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD), but no disease-specific pain assessment has been developed using current developme...
Conceptual underpinnings were drawn from literature review, concept elicitation, expert consultation, and measurement performance. In the qualitative analysis phase, concepts were elicited from focus ...
In the qualitative phase, 46 focus groups were conducted in 18 countries with 293 participants. Focus groups described three conceptually distinct types of ADPKD-related pain and discomfort (dull kidn...
The ADPKD-PDS is the first validated tool for systematically assessing pain and discomfort in ADPKD....
The ability to accurately assess the health risks of contaminants is limited by the shortcomings of toxicological standards. Using organophosphate esters (OPEs) as an example, this study attempted to ...
The purpose of this study was to examine the psychometric properties of the Children's Eating Attitude Test (ChEAT) in a Chinese sample. A total of 906 children (mean age = 10.55, SD = 1.08) from thre...
This is a retrospective observational study to externally validate a deep learning image classification model....
Deep learning models such as SpineNet offer the possibility of automating the process of disk degeneration (DD) classification from magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). External validation is an essentia...
We validated SpineNet using data from 1331 NFBC1966 participants for whom both lumbar spine MRI data and consensus DD gradings were available....
SpineNet returned Pfirrmann grade and MC presence from T2-weighted sagittal lumbar MRI sequences from NFBC1966, a data set geographically and temporally separated from its training data set. A range o...
Balanced accuracy for DD was 78% (77%-79%) and for MC 86% (85%-86%). Interrater reliability for Pfirrmann grading was Lin concordance correlation coefficient=0.86 (0.85-0.87) and Cohen κ=0.68 (0.67-0....
In this study, SpineNet has been benchmarked against expert human raters in the research setting. It has matched human reliability and demonstrates robust performance despite the multiple challenges f...
The aim of this study is to introduce a novel 3D cephalometric analysis (3DCA) and to validate its use in evaluating the reproducibility of virtual orthodontic-surgical planning (VOSP) in surgery-firs...
The cohort of nineteen patients underwent bimaxillary orthognathic surgery following the VOSP designed in SimPlant O&O software by processing cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) scans and intraoral d...
In the comparison between cephalometric outcomes against planned ones, the following values showed significant differences: Wits Index, which suggests a tendency towards skeletal class III in PostOp (...
A potential limit of studies making use of closest point distance analysis is represented by the complexity that surgeons and orthodontists face in applying this three-dimensional evaluation of SF acc...
The presented 3DCA offers a valid aid in performing VOSP and analysing orthognathic surgery outcomes, especially in SF. Thanks to the cephalometric analysis, we found that surgery-first approach outco...
Infertility stigma is a hidden burden that overshadows the dimensions of reproductive and sexual health in infertile women. The aim of this study was to develop and evaluate the psychometric propertie...
This mixed method study with sequential exploratory design was conducted in qualitative and quantitative phases. In the first phase, the initial item pool of the Female Infertility Stigma Instrument (...
The final version of ISI-F had 20 items. Total CVI and CVR were 0.94 and 0.87, respectively. Explanatory factor analysis identified 3 main factors that explained 54.013% of the variance. These factors...
The Female Infertility Stigma Instrument (ISI-F) is a valid and reliable tool for evaluation of the perceived female infertility stigma, that was developed in this study....
