Discrepancies in Reporting Tissue Material Properties

Discrepancies in Data Reporting for Rabies, Africa

Human rabies is an ancient disease but in modern times has primarily been associated with dog rabies-endemic countries of Asia and Africa. From an African perspective, the inevitable and tragic consequences of rabies require serious reflection of the factors that continue to drive its neglect. Established as a major disease only after multiple introductions during the colonial era, rabies conti...

Statistical properties of generalized discrepancies

When testing that a sample of n points in the unit hypercube [0, 1] comes from a uniform distribution, the Kolmogorov–Smirnov and the Cramér–von Mises statistics are simple and well-known procedures. To encompass these measures of uniformity, Hickernell introduced the so-called generalized Lp-discrepancies. These discrepancies can be used in numerical integration through Monte Carlo and quasi–M...

Outcome Discrepancies and Selective Reporting: Impacting the Leading Journals?

BACKGROUND Selective outcome reporting of either interesting or positive research findings is problematic, running the risk of poorly-informed treatment decisions. We aimed to assess the extent of outcome and other discrepancies and possible selective reporting between registry entries and published reports among leading medical journals. METHODS Randomized controlled trials published over a ...

Characterization of Soft-Tissue Material Properties: Large Deformation Analysis

The biomechanical properties of soft tissue derived from experimental measurements are critical for developing a reality-based model for minimally invasive surgical training and simulation. In our research, we focus on developing a biomechanical model of the liver under large tissue deformation. This paper presents the experimental apparatus, experimental data, and formulations to model the exp...

Bone tissue material properties are altered during osteoporosis.