The Toronto Teen Survey is a community-based participatory research study whose aim is to gather information on the accessibility and relevance of sexual health services for diverse groups of urban youth (13 to 17 years of age). This information will be used to develop a proactive, citywide strategy to improve sexual health outcomes for Toronto adolescents. In this article, the authors focus on...

Zonisamide safety was evaluated based on a postmarketing surveillance study of patients treated for 1-3 years. Nine hundred twenty-eight children and 584 adults (ages 1 month to 79 years), including 372 newly-diagnosed patients, received zonisamide for partial and generalized epilepsies. Of the intractable patients, 1008 received zonisamide in combination with other antiepileptic drugs (AED), a...

OBJECTIVES/HYPOTHESIS To reassess cochleostomy techniques among North American cochlear implant surgeons after a 6-year period of widespread education and research on the topic. STUDY DESIGN Prospective cohort study. METHODS A multiple-choice survey of cochlear implant techniques was distributed to surgeons attending the William House Cochlear Implant Study Group in 2006 and 2012. This surv...

Survey tools are widely used within Child Computer Interaction however the validity and reliability of children’s responses are often brought into question. This paper reports on a study on the effects of asking the same questions to the same children over a period of a week to ascertain the validity of children’s responses when completing a single questionnaire. The results showed that over 50...

OBJECTIVE To find out the prevalence of refractive errors and pattern of ocular morbidity amongst the school children of a rural village. MATERIALS AND METHODS A cross sectional study was carried out in children of age group 3 - 12 years in a rural village of Hathras, Uttar Pradesh, India. All the children were examined including visual acuity measurement using Snellen's E chart, retinoscopy ...

The Survey of Consumer Finances (SCF) has a dual-frame sample design that supplements a standard area-probability frame with a sample of observations drawn from statistical records derived from tax returns. The tax-based frame is stratified on the basis of a “wealth index” constructed largely from observed income flows, with the intent of heavily oversampling wealthy households. Although the SC...

Each year, one of the explicit challenges for the KDD research community is to develop methods that facilitate the use of inductive learning algorithms for mining very large databases. By collecting, categorizing, and summarizing past work on scaling up inductive learning algorithms, this paper serves to establish a common ground for researchers addressing the challenge. We begin with a discuss...

A questionnaire survey was used to determine the status of nutrition education in Japanese medical schools in 2009. A similar survey was conducted in 2004, at which time nutritional education was determined to be inadequate in Japanese medical schools. The current questionnaire was sent to the directors of Centers for Medical Education of 80 medical schools, who represented all medical schools ...

One of the deening challenges for the KDD research community is to enable induc-tive learning algorithms to mine very large databases. This paper summarizes, categorizes, and compares existing work on scaling up inductive algorithms. We concentrate on algorithms that build decision trees and rule sets, in order to provide focus and speciic details; the issues and techniques generalize to other ...

SH&E PROFESSIONALS have a vested interest in knowing more about top-level management—most of whom determine what resources are designated for safety within organizations. By knowing more about these managers’ perceptions of safety, an SH&E professional may be better equipped to negotiate for valued resources. For example, suppose you know that top-level managers within your industry think that ...