OBJECTIVE To examine, for polio survivors, whether walking with a carbon-fibre reinforced plastic knee-ankle-foot orthosis (carbon KAFO) is more efficient than walking with an ordinary KAFO or without an orthosis. DESIGN Consecutive sample. SETTING Post-polio clinic, University Hospital of Occupational and Environmental Health, Kitakyushu, Fukuoka, Japan. PARTICIPANTS Eleven polio survivo...

Appropriate statistical analyses are an integral part of surgical research. The purpose of this work is to assist surgeons and clinicians with the interpretation of statistics by providing a general understanding of the basic concepts that lead to choosing an appropriate statistical test for common study designs. It is extremely important to understand the nature of the data before embarking on...

METHODS: Prospective, longitudinal cohort study conducted between October 2012 and October 2013. Thirty-three eyes from 33 patients (20 females, 13 males; mean age = 73 ± 7 years) were included in the study, and underwent phacoemulsification followed by pseudophakic intraocular lens (IOL) implantation. All patients were evaluated with a high-speed Scheimpflug camera (Corvis ST, Oculus, Wetzlar,...

Iron deficiency anemia is still a major nutritional problem in adolescents Indonesia. One of the efforts to handle it by giving Moringa chocolate. Research objective: analyzeeffectiveness chocolate on hemoglobin levels adolescent girls. method: Type researchquasi experiment with nonrandomized pretest and posttest design control group. The population this study was 75, purposive sampling sample ...

Respect to the design guidelines of building environments is a complex subject that associated with cultural and economic development of human societies. Therefore, accurately measuring users’ favorites for environment design is a essential subject to optimize the relationship between environmental and personal parameters. This study with the purpose of investigation of patients satisfactory fr...

Although linear trend removing has often been implemented as a routine preprocessing step in resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (RS-fMRI) data analysis, the spatial distribution of the magnitude of linear trend is still unclear. Further, it is interesting whether there will be any difference of the linear trend magnitude between different resting-states. For the first aim, we a...

OBJECTIVE To provide a practical guidance for the analysis of N-of-1 trials by comparing four commonly used models. METHODS The four models, paired t-test, mixed effects model of difference, mixed effects model and meta-analysis of summary data were compared using a simulation study. The assumed 3-cycles and 4-cycles N-of-1 trials were set with sample sizes of 1, 3, 5, 10, 20 and 30 respectiv...

This study purpose to determine the effect financial performance of companies before and after IPO through ratios as measured by Current Ratio, Debt Equity Ratio,, Return On Equity, Asset, Net Profit Margin, Total Assets Turnover Ratio. The population used in this is BEI period 2018. Then using purposive sampling method for selected sampling, on campanies listed IDX Method data analysis t test ...

This procedure allows you to study the power and sample size of tests of equivalence of means of two correlated variables. Schuirmann’s (1987) two one-sided tests (TOST) approach is used to test equivalence. The paired t-test is commonly used in this situation. Other tests have been developed for the case when the data are not normally distributed. These additional tests include the Wilcoxon si...