In all fields and branches of sciences especially statistics, the correlation coefficient is one most often used statistical measures. This study has been carried out for comparing performances Pearson (), Spearman's Rank Kendall’s Tau () coefficients under three sample sizes based on data quantitative variables cotton. Descriptive statistics showed presence genetic variability cotton studied t...

BACKGROUND Physical activity (PA) is beneficial in reducing pain and improving function in lower limb osteoarthritis (OA), and is recommended as a first line treatment. Self-administered questionnaires are used to assess PA, but knowledge about reliability and validity of these PA questionnaires are limited, in particular for patients with OA. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the relia...

Methods An ambispective cohort study of adult patients consecutively admitted to an ICU exclusively from the ED, from October 2011 to March 2013. Variables recorded were: sex, age, comorbidities, ED length of stay, diagnosis, procedures, complications, severity scores (SOFA and APACHE II), ICU and hospital length of stay and evolution. For the assessment of clinical deterioration a Delta-SOFA s...

The aim of this study was to test whether performance on a range of manual dexterity haptic simulator exercises was associated with preclinical operative dentistry examination and Perceptual Ability Test (PAT) scores. Thirty-nine first-year dental students were tested with three haptic exercises--straight line, circle, and mirror line--each performed twice. Haptic exercise outcomes for accuracy...

The Elderly is someone who 60 years old which characterized by a decrease in lower extremity muscle strength and cognitive function that can affect body balance the elderly. To determine relationship between strength, function, to dominant factors elderly Gonilan Village. cross-sectional study involving 94 respondents with quota sampling technique. Correlation test Spearman Rho test, there no s...

OBJECTIVE To compare different statistical methods for assessing the relative validity of a self-administered, 150-item, semi-quantitative food-frequency questionnaire (FFQ) with 4-day weighed diet records (WR). DESIGN Subjects completed the Scottish Collaborative Group FFQ and carried out a 4-day WR. Relative agreement between the FFQ and WR for energy-adjusted nutrient intakes was assessed ...

The expressions of MMP2, -7, -9, -13 and TIMP1, -2, -3 were examined in biopsies and cell lines of head and neck squamous cell carcinomas (HNSCC) to determine the association between the expression profile and TNM-staging of the primary. The expressions of MMP2, -7, -9, -13 and TIMP1, -2, -3 were analyzed in 30 HNSCC biopsies, 7 HNSCC cell lines and 1 keratinocyte cell line using RT-PCR. Negati...

Abstrak: Persepsi Karyawan di Direktorat Pengelolaan Kas Negara Kementerian Keuangan Jakarta pada Fenomena Bystander Effect dan Whistleblowing Terhadap Fraud Akuntansi. Tujuan penelitian ini untuk mengetahui pengaruh dari sikap bystander effect terhadap terjadinya fraud akuntansi whisteleblowing akuntansi. Populasi dalam adalah semua karyawan yang bekerja Jenderal Perbendaharaan Jakarta. Teknik...

Background: Five-year survival is an important metric for progress in cancer control broadly used both in the cancer literature and by the public. In order to assess its validity and relation to other common metrics, we analyzed the relationship between 5-year survival, incidence and mortality using publicly available cancer registry data from England and Wales. Methods: Five-year survival, inc...

This research involves a comparative study of the immunohistochemical features inflammatory response anterior abdominal wall tissues after implantation autoderm and polypropylene mesh in rats. The object were 36 Wistar rats, which divided into two groups 18 specimens each. In first group, was implanted; second de-epithelialized skin (autoderm) implanted. On days 3, 7, 14, 30, 90, we studied: CD...