Inherited thrombophilia is believed to be a multiple gene disease with more than one defect. We wanted to determine the association between single thrombophilic patterns and a variety of pregnancy diseases. 301 pregnant women were recruited for the present case-control study and were divided into two groups: A group (176 controls) and B group (125 cases). Patients belonging to the B group had o...

OBJECTIVE Primary objective of this study was to assess utility of sagittal abdominal diameter (SAD) as a cardio vascular risk predictor and compare various anthropometric measurement of body fat distribution in elderly patients. METHOD Four hundred patients were enrolled in study. Elderly patients more than 60 year of age attending medical OPD, geriatric OPD and suitable indoor patients who ...

I document some of the main evidence showing that E. S. Pearson rejected the key features of the behavioral-decision philosophy that became associated with the Neyman-Pearson Theory of statistics (NPT). I argue that NPT principles arose not out of behavioral aims, where the concern is solely with behaving correctly sufficiently often in some long run, but out of the epistemological aim of learn...

OBJECTIVE to identify the prevalence of Metabolic Syndrome among nursing personnel, and its association with occupational stress, anxiety and depression. METHOD a descriptive correlational study undertaken with 226 nursing personnel from a teaching hospital. Data collection was undertaken through application of the Job Stress Scale, the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale and a sociodemogra...

In this paper, the Bayesian, Neyman-Pearson and Competitive Neyman-Pearson detection approaches are analyzed using a perceptually modified Ephraim-Malah (PEM) model, based on which a few practical voice activity detectors are developed. The voice activity detection is treated as a composite hypothesis testing problem with a free parameter formed by the prior signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). It is r...

Pearson marrow‑pancreas syndrome (PS) is a progressive multi‑organ disorder caused by deletions and duplications of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA). PS is often fatal in infancy, and the majority of patients with PS succumb to the disease before reaching three‑years‑of‑age, due to septicemia, metabolic acidosis or hepatocellular insufficiency. The present report describes the case of a four‑month‑old...