This paper considers an individual making a treatment choice. The individual has access to data on other individuals, with values for a list of characteristics, treatment assignments, and outcomes. The individual knows his value for the list of characteristics. The goal is to use this data set to guide his treatment choice. The role of treatment assignment is developed, and how it affects the s...

In shotgun proteomics, the quality of a hypothesized match between an observed spectrum and a peptide sequence is quantified by a score function. Because the score function lies at the heart of any peptide identification pipeline, this function greatly affects the final results of a proteomics assay. Consequently, valid statistical methods for assessing the quality of a given score function are...

We aimed to examine the validity of fall risk assessment items for the healthy community-dwelling elderly Japanese population. Participants were 1122 healthy elderly individuals aged 60 years and over (380 males and 742 females). The percentage who had experienced a fall was 15.8%. This study used fall experience and 50 fall risk assessment items representing the five risk factors (symptoms of ...

Editor's Note: Every memory that we have, act that we perform, and feeling that we experience creates brainstorms—interactions of millions of cells that produce electrical signals. Neuroscientists are now able to record those signals, extract the kind of motor commands that the brain is about to produce, and communicate the commands to machines that can understand them and facilitate movement i...

Eating attitudes can be defined as beliefs, thoughts, feelings, behavior and relationship with food. They can influence people's food choices and health status. The scope of this paper is to compare eating attitudes of university students from different regions of Brazil and investigate possible associations and correlations with nutritional status, age, individual income and parental education...

In light of the deficiencies and limitations for existing score functions, Lin has proposed a more effective and reasonable new score function for measuring vague values. By using Lin’s score function and a new weighted aggregation score function, an algorithm for multi-criteria group decision-making method was proposed to solve vague set based group decision-making problems under vague environ...

background: chronic cor pulmonale (ccp) is a disease of increasing frequency in chinese people and profoundly influences their health. ccp is often accompanied by anxiety and other psychological problems, and patients may show signs of motor function decline. however, little attention has been paid to the impact of ccp-related psychological problems on motor function. methods: patients with ccp...