BACKGROUND Although many studies have reported the effectiveness of pelvic floor muscle training (PFMT) for treating female urinary incontinence, the magnitude of the effect and the optimal configuration of the parameters of the training have not been clearly determined. OBJECTIVES The aims of this meta-analysis were: (a) to calculate the effect size of pelvic floor muscle training compared t...

This paper presents a patch-based approach for pose estimation from single images using a kernelized density voting scheme. We introduce a boostinglike algorithm that models the density using a mixture of weighted ‘weak’ estimators. The ‘weak’ density estimators and corresponding weights are learned iteratively from a training set, providing an efficient method for feature selection. Given a qu...

OBJECTIVE Controversy still exists regarding the optimal surgical technique for postinfarction left ventricular (LV) aneurysm repair. We analyze the efficacy of two established techniques, linear vs. patch remodeling, for repair of dyskinetic LV aneurysms. METHODS Between May 1988 and December 2001, 110 consecutive patients underwent repair of LV aneurysms. These represent 2.0% of a total gro...

Trapezoidal intuitionistic fuzzy numbers (TrIFNs) express abundant and flexible information in a suitable manner and  are very useful to depict the decision information in the procedure of decision making. In this paper, some new aggregation operators, such as, trapezoidal intuitionistic fuzzy weighted power harmonic mean (TrIFWPHM) operator, trapezoidal intuitionistic fuzzy ordered weighted po...

The changes of natural habitat structure and function due to human interference is hastening worldwide, it compulsory preserve biological resources in a protected system. This study aims measure the landscape ecological extent fragmentation Bale mountains national park. land use/land cover change was determined by interpreting 1985, 1995, 2005 2017 Landsat images with ArcGIS 10.3, selected stru...

Knowledge on how functional responses (a measurement of feeding interaction strength) are affected by patch size and habitat complexity (represented by refuge availability) is crucial for understanding food-web stability and subsequently biodiversity. Due to their laborious character, it is almost impossible to carry out systematic empirical experiments on functional responses across wide gradi...

Generalized chain ratio regression and chain regression estimators for the population mean using two auxiliary characters have been proposed in the presence of non-response. The expressions for the mean square error (MSE) of these estimators have been obtained for fixed sample sizes ( n′ and n ) and also for fixed cost 0 C C ≤ .The optimum values of the first phase sample size n′ and the sub sa...