Serial assessments of neurocognitive functioning in athletes with concussion are commonly used for return to play decisions. This study provides reliable change indices (RCIs) for computerized tests from 40 NCAA Division I collegiate athletes that suffered a sports-related concussion. The normative data that resulted from the RCIs and subsequent analyses of differences between improved and not ...

This review assesses how publications interpret factors that influence the serum or plasma albumin (PA) level in prognostic indices, focusing on inflammation and nutrition. On PubMed, a search for “albumin AND prognosis” yielded 23,919 results. From these records, indices were retrieved, their names used as strings PubMed. Indices found 10 more original research articles included. The same stri...

BACKGROUND We aim to investigate the prognostic value of several nutrition-based indices, including the prognostic nutritional index (PNI), performance status, body mass index, serum albumin, and preoperative body weight loss in patients with gastric cancer (GC). MATERIALS AND METHODS We retrospectively analyzed the records of 1,330 consecutive patients with GC undergoing curative surgery bet...

Some of most used indicators in marine ecology are nucleic acid-derived indices. They can be divided by target levels in three groups: 1) at the organism level as ecophysiologic indicators, indicators such as RNA:DNA ratios, DNA:dry weight and RNA:protein, 2) at the population level, indicators such as growth rate, starvation incidence or fisheries impact indicators, and 3) at the community lev...

ABSTRACT: The objective of this study is to determine the vegetation indices (IV) as a means identifying nutritional status corn, with respect soil nitrogen and potassium, using aerial images received through an RGB camera loaded on unmanned vehicle. were obtained for experiment levels (0, 60, 120 180 kg ha-1) potassium 50, 100 150 ha-1), in random block design, factorial scheme 4 x 4, having t...