OBJECTIVE (1) To compare the performance of 4 platelet counting technologies in equine platelet concentrates and (2) to evaluate the ability of the Magellan platelet rich plasma (PRP) system to concentrate equine platelets. STUDY DESIGN Experimental study to assess method agreement. ANIMALS Adult mixed breed horses (n = 32). METHODS Acid citrate dextrose-A anti-coagulated whole blood was ...

The aim of this study was to characterize the sleep-wake cycle, daytime sleepiness and sleep quality of high school teachers. Ninety-eight high school teachers participated in this study. They were asked to complete the Health and Sleep, Horne & Ostberg, Epworth Sleepiness Scale and Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index questionnaires and to keep a 14-day sleep diary. This study showed that high-schoo...

Most of statistical approaches in cardiovascular research were based on variance analysis (ANOVA). However, most of the time, the assumption that data are independent is violated since several measures are performed on the same subject (repeated measures). In addition, the presence of intraand inter-observers variability can potentially obscure significant differences. The linear mixed model (L...

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Inspired by the analysis of variance (ANOVA) decomposition functions, we propose a Gaussian-uniform mixture model on high-dimensional torus which relies assumption that function wish to approximate can be well explained limited variable interactions. We consider three approaches, namely wrapped Gaussians, diagonal and products von Mises distributions. The sparsity is ensured fact its summands a...