METHODS: Prospective, longitudinal cohort study conducted between October 2012 and October 2013. Thirty-three eyes from 33 patients (20 females, 13 males; mean age = 73 ± 7 years) were included in the study, and underwent phacoemulsification followed by pseudophakic intraocular lens (IOL) implantation. All patients were evaluated with a high-speed Scheimpflug camera (Corvis ST, Oculus, Wetzlar,...

The Correlation Power Analysis (CPA) is probably the most used side-channel attack because it seems to fit the power model of most standard CMOS devices and is very efficiently computed. However, the Pearson correlation coefficient used in the CPA measures only linear statistical dependences where the Mutual Information (MI) takes into account both linear and nonlinear dependences. Even if ther...

It is widely appreciated that many studies in psychological science suffer from low statistical power. One of the consequences analyzing underpowered with thresholds significance a high risk finding exaggerated effect size estimates, right or wrong direction. These inferential risks can be directly quantified terms Type M (magnitude) error and S (sign) error, which communicate design choices on...

The Genetic Algorithm (GA) requires randomized initial population so as to give requisite results. The work proposes the use of Cellular Automata (CA) to generate the initial population for GA. The numbers generated by clubbing these two processes will make a better set of random numbers as compared to existing methodologies. The quality of the random numbers generated has been tested by Gap Te...

Three main approaches on how audio signals can be used as input to a deep learning model are: extracting hand-crafted features from signals, mapping into appropriate images such spectrogram-like ones, and using directly raw signals. Among these approaches, the usage of represents compromise regarding bias enforced by processing (seen in features) computational demands signals). When any is inpu...

This paper is aimed at finding if there was a change of correlation between the written test score and tutors' performance test scores in the assessment of medical students during a problem-based learning (PBL) course in Malaysia. This is a cross-sectional observational study, conducted among 264 medical students in two groups from November 2010 to November 2012. The first group's tutors did no...

psychological disorders are universally common problems. social support contributes much to the health of individuals. focusing upon social support and upon vicissitudes of life can help prevent the depression-induced disorders. the present paper investigated the relationship between perceived social support, depression and perceived stress in university students.the descriptive-analytical stud...

in the past 10 years, the amount of research conducted on psychological aspects of sport injury has been increasing. the purpose of this study was to predict the burnout according to the self-determined motivation in iranian elite handball players before and after the injury. the subjects were 28 injured elite handball players who did not participate in competitions for 4 weeks due to their inj...