Background A validated questionnaire is needed to study a more holistic outcome assessment including postsurgical aesthetic satisfaction and psychosocial changes in orthognathic patients. The aim of this study was to determine the reliability and validity of 9 orthognathically relevant translated FACE-Q scales among Hong Kong Chinese orthognathic patients. Methods Two hundred fifty adult Cant...

Antimicrobial susceptibility testing for Helicobacter pylori is increasingly important due to resistance to the most used antimicrobials agents. Only agar dilution method is approved by CLSI, but it is difficult to perform routinely. We evaluated the reliability of E-test and disk diffusion comparing to agar dilution method on Helicobacter pylori antimicrobial susceptibility testing. Susceptibi...

CONTEXT The correct diagnosis and effective treatment of Helicobacter pylori gastric infection are essential in controlling this infection. OBJECTIVE To compare the diagnostic value of three tests based in endoscopic gastric biopsies histopathological evaluation with hematoxylin-eosin (H-E) staining, urease rapid test and microbiological culture for detecting Helicobacter pylori active infect...

0 7 4 0 7 4 5 9 / 0 0 / $ 1 0 . 0 0 © 2 0 0 1 I E E E J a n u a r y / F e b r u a r y 2 0 0 1 I E E E S O F T W A R E 81 ultimate system quality. Implementing the function test as a formal process lets testers cope better with the functional complexity of the software application under test. Testplan documents and test-case specifications are important deliverables from the formal test process....

I t h e p r e v i o u s a r t i c l e o n t h e s t a t i s t i c a l e v a l u a t i o n of diagnostic tests –Part 1, we u n d e r s t o o d t h e m e a s u r e s o f sensitivity, specificity, positive and negative predictive values. The use of these metrices stems from the fact that no diagnostic test is ever perfect and every time we carry out a test, it will yield one of four possible outco...

background: coccidiosis is an intestinal disease of chickens caused by various species of proto­zoan parasites within the genus eimeria . diagnosis and genetic characterization of different spe­cies of eimeria are central to the prevention, surveillance, and control of coccidiosis. the aim of this study was to detect different chicken eimeria species from several areas in khuzestan, south­west ...

this study was aimed to assess the protective effects of cornus mas fruit extract (cmfe) and vitamin e (vit e) on sperm quality parameters in the methotrexate (mtx)-treated mice. forty-eight young adult male mice (8-12 weeks) were randomly divided into six groups including control and test groups. the control group received normal saline orally , and the test groups were treated mtx (20 mg kg-1...