Self-esteem is an important determinant of psychological well-being that is particularly problematic during adolescent life stage. There is a correlation between low self-esteem and other social problems among today's adolescents. This study was conducted to determine the mean self-esteem score, and to determine the association between self-esteem and age, sex, race, religion, number of sibling...

Background & Aims: The purpose of the present research was to compare the bone mineral density (BMD) of lumbar spine between athletic and non-athletic premenopausal women. Methods: Fifteen female athletes (runner) with the mean age of 33.80 ± 4.81 years, mean height of 164.13 ± 5.31 cm, mean weight of 57.33 ± 4.22 kg, and mean body mass index (BMI) of 21.41 ± 2.21 kg/m2 and 15 female non-athlet...

Results The study included 27 patients, 18 males and 9 females, 29-77 years of age. Baseline data are presented for 14 patients with a Polyneuropathy Disability (PND) Score I and 13 patients with a PND Score II or greater. Characterized by FAP Stage, 24 patients are FAP Stage 1 and 3 patients are FAP Stage 2. Two patients (PND Score II or greater) reported a total of six hospitalizations due to...

purpose: patients may control postoperative pain by self-administration of intravenous opioids   using devices designed for this purpose (patient controlled analgesia or pca). this study set out   to determine whether any of the two opioid administrations (i.e. pca or conventional analgesia)   would provide superior pain relief among patients undergoing laparoscopic cholecystectomy   or not.   ...

We report the clinical and radiological outcome of total ankle replacement performed in conjunction with hindfoot fusion or in isolation. Between May 2003 and June 2008, 60 ankles were treated with total ankle replacement with either subtalar or triple fusion, and the results were compared with a control group of 288 ankles treated with total ankle replacement alone. After the mean follow-up of...

This paper presents the results of our participation in the Clickbait Detection Challenge 2017. The system relies on a fusion of neural networks, incorporating different types of available informations. It does not require any linguistic preprocessing, and hence generalizes more easily to new domains and languages. The final combined model achieves a mean squared error of 0.0428, an accuracy of...

We consider classes of smooth functions on [0, 1] with mean square norm. We present a wavelet-based method for obtaining approximate pointwise reconstruction of every function with nearly minimal cost without substantially increasing the amount of data stored. In more detail: each function f of a class is supplied with a binary code of minimal (up to a constant factor) length, where the minimal...

OBJECTIVE To examine associations of neighborhood characteristics with six components of the insulin resistance syndrome (IRS) in young adults. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS Cross-sectional data from the Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults (CARDIA) Study were used to examine associations of neighborhood characteristics with the IRS in 3,093 nondiabetic adults aged 28-40 years. Meas...

Background: Studies show that most students do not have sufficient scientific spirit and motivation and usually do not have the right attitude toward their chosen field of study. The aim of this study was to investigate the attitudes of students in occupational and environmental health at Ardabil University of Medical Sciences, Iran, toward their disciplines. Materials and Methods: This cros...

BACKGROUND Patients often report neurocognitive difficulties after neuroborreliosis (NB). The frequency and extent of cognitive problems in European patients have been studied incompletely. METHODS Sixty patients received a neurological and neuropsychological work-up 6 months or longer after treatment for proven NB. Quality of life, psychiatric symptom load, and brain atrophy were measured. A...