Background Tobacco use imposes significant economic burden, particularly in low and middle-income countries, diverting ...

Objective To determine if paediatric athletes exhibit differences in positive screenings on the Sport Mental Health Assessment Tool (SMHAT-1) compared with adults. Methods Team USA Olympic and ...

OBJECTIVE: To estimate the carbon footprint of the Brazilian diet and of sociodemographic strata of this population. METHODS: Carbon footprint of the diet was estimated based on data from two 24-hour ...

Clinical decision support systems hold promise for improving adherence to guidelines and reducing decision-making time in acute ischemic stroke management. We developed a stroke-specific clinical ...

We investigated subset-based optimization methods for positron emission tomography (PET) image reconstruction incorporating a regularizing prior. PET reconstruction methods that use a prior, such as ...

Sankhyā: The Indian Journal of Statistics, Series B (2008-), Vol. 78, No. 1 (May 2016), pp. 66-77 (12 pages) We consider the problem of unbiased estimation of a finite population mean (or proportion) ...

Proposed new feature or change: Numpy provides efficient, vectorized methods for generating random samples of an array with replacement. However, it lacks similar functionality for sampling without ...

In the last six decades, surveys and monitoring of natural resources have increased rapidly in number and diversity, not only because of the significant increase in human pressure on natural resources ...

Introduction: Optimizing limb survival in patients with chronic limb-threatening ischemia (CLTI) undergoing peripheral vascular intervention (PVI) is a major focus. Care plans that consider patients’ ...