Knowledge of factors that affect the under-five year child mortality is important because it pertains to policy and programs. Causes and differences of under-five mortality between rural and urban area help decision makers to assess programmatic needs and prioritize interventions. This paper investigates the causes and differences of under-five mortality between rural and urban area in Banglade...

aim : to determine the associated factors of reflux duration, using quantile regression model. background : reflux is one of the most prevalent gastrointestinal disorders.  statistical tools are widely used to assess the associated factors on reflux severity and frequency. patients and methods : a door to door questionnaire has been used to evaluate gastrointestinal symptoms including reflux an...

Cyclooxygenase-1 (Cox-1) contributes to gastric defense of healthy tissue, but the role in the protection of the gastric epithelium after minor, acute damage has been difficult to study in vivo. Using 710-nm two-photon light absorption to create microscopic gastric damage in anesthetized mice with the gastric mucosal surface surgically exposed and perfused on the microscope stage, the acute res...

Objectives The Cox proportional hazards (PH) model is commonly used in randomised clinical trials (RCTs) to assess a treatment effect after adjusting for known prognostic factors. However, the Cox model requires that a covariate effect is constant over time. Violation of this assumption invalidates the simple Cox model. Various PH checks exist, some in the form of statistical tests and some emp...

In the frame of the Cox proportional hazard (PH) model, a novel two-step procedure for estimating age-period-cohort (APC) effects on the hazard function of death from cancer was developed. In the first step, the procedure estimates the influence of joint APC effects on the hazard function, using Cox PH regression procedures from a standard software package. In the second step, the coefficients ...

Abstract In pediatric low-grade gliomas (pLGG), prognosis and responses to treatments are heterogeneous. This heterogeneity may be explained by the differences in molecular composition of tumors same histology likely upstream alterations following administered radiation or systemic therapy. Integration radiomics clinical variables could generate a non-invasive biomarker that provides upfront pr...

As customers are the main asset of any organization, customer churn management is becoming a major task for organizations to retain their valuable customers. In the previous studies, the applicability and efficiency of hierarchical data mining techniques for churn prediction by combining two or more techniques have been proved to provide better performances than many single techniques over a nu...

Abstract Pediatric low-grade glioma (pLGG) encompasses a variety of tumor subtypes with heterogeneous treatment response and relatively long progression-free survival (PFS). Radiomics may serve as non-invasive in-vivo tool for early prediction PFS surrogate marker to objectively gauge the efficacy novel strategies. Here, we present multivariate model based on radiomic features clinical variable...

The four-card selection task (Wason, 1966) has been one of the most well-known tasks used in the literature on human reasoning. This article aimed to analyze this selection task by item response theory (Lord & Novick, 1968). Japanese undergraduates (N = 327 and 277 in Studies 1 and 2, respectively) responded to up to 10 types of representative Wason selection tasks, including the indicative tas...