Purpose Building on the spillover-crossover model (Bakker and Demerouti, 2013), this study aimed to examine processes through which three forms of social support at work (i.e. from coworkers, supervisor organizational family-friendly) were positively associated with an individual's level work-family balance (spillover effect), latter, one's partner's family life satisfaction (crossover via perc...

سخن سردبیر Editorial مجله دانشگاه علوم پزشکی رفسنجان دوره هجدهم، شهریور 1398، 513-514     مطالعات مورد – همگذری (Case Crossover Studies)   محسن رضائیان[1]   M. Rezaeian   مطالعات مورد - همگذری (Case Crossover Studies) به ویژه برای مشخص کردن تأثیر زودگذر مواجهه بر روی رخداد یک بیماری حاد، مناسب است. در این طراحی، به جای آن‌که یک گروه مجزا برای کنترل انتخاب  شود، هر مورد در نقش کنترل ...

Objective: To determine whether the triple-crossover hop and timed shuttle run are able to discriminate between injured and uninjured limbs in subjects with functional ankle instability. Design and Setting: A comparative study involving the assessment of functional performance, conducted in a university gymnasium. Participants: A volunteer sample of 16 university-age subjects with unilateral fu...

We propose a class of crossover operators for genetic programming that aim at making offspring programs semantically intermediate (medial) with respect to parent programs by modifying short fragments of code (subprograms). The approach is applicable to problems that define fitness as a distance between program output and the desired output. Based on that metric, we define two measures of semant...

the purpose of present study was to examine the effects of caffeine and ephedrine supplement and their combination on maximal strength and mucular endurance in male bodybuilders. 12 male bodybuilders (mean age: 24.41±4.42 years, height: 174.83±3.61 cm and weight: 75.67±8.05 kg) were selected voluntarily. the study design was crossover, in which the subjects were placed in 7 different conditions...

BACKGROUND In a cluster randomised crossover (CRXO) design, a sequence of interventions is assigned to a group, or 'cluster' of individuals. Each cluster receives each intervention in a separate period of time, forming 'cluster-periods'. Sample size calculations for CRXO trials need to account for both the cluster randomisation and crossover aspects of the design. Formulae are available for the...

Differential Evolution (DE) is arguably one of the most powerful stochastic real parameter optimization algorithms in current use. DE operates through the similar computational steps as employed by a standard Evolutionary Algorithm (EA). However, unlike the traditional EAs, the DEvariants perturb the current-generation population members with the scaled differences of randomly selected and dist...

Alternative designs can increase the feasibility of pediatric trials when compared to classical parallel designs (PaD). In this work we present a model-based approach based on clinical trial simulations for the comparison of PaD with the alternative sequential, crossover, and randomized withdrawal (RWD) designs. Study designs were evaluated in terms of: type I and II errors, sample size per arm...

The exposure term in the case-crossover design consists in the difference between the ambient concentration on the event day and the concentration(s) on some control day(s). So far, all air pollution case-crossover studies presented the distribution of the daily ambient pollutant concentrations but do not publish the distributional properties of the relevant exposure term--that is, the concentr...

This paper considers the optimum design of flexbeam cross-sections for a full-scale bearingless helicopter rotor, using an efficient hybrid optimization algorithm based on particle swarm optimization, and an improved genetic algorithm, with an effective constraint handling scheme for constrained nonlinear optimization. The basic operators of the genetic algorithm, of crossover and mutation, are...