Little guidance is available concerning the type of children's ward accommodation most suitable for the tropics. Hospitals are still being built without any children's wards and special facilities for neonates are seldom found outside teaching hospitals. Where such facilities exist, design has conformed to the traditional type of premature baby unit, which may be neither suitable nor desirable ...

Most existing binary classification methods target on the optimization of the overall classification risk and may fail to serve some real-world applications such as cancer diagnosis, where users are more concerned with the risk of misclassifying one specific class than the other. Neyman-Pearson (NP) paradigm was introduced in this context as a novel statistical framework for handling asymmetric...

Introduction: Premenstrual syndrome as a periodic event that social adjustment and interpersonal relationships can be difficult. Regarding the prevalence of premenstrual syndrome and the harmful effect of severity of symptoms on marital satisfaction, The aim of this study was to determine the relationship between severity of symptoms of premenstrual syndrome and marital satisfaction among coupl...

This paper provides a rigorous analysis of the asymptotic behavior of the solution for the boundary-value problem u + u − 1 = 0, −1 < x < 1, u(−1) = u(1) = 0 as the parameter approaches zero.

In the Neyman-Pearson (NP) classification paradigm, the goal is to learn a classifier from labeled training data such that the probability of a false negative is minimized while the probability of a false positive is below a user-specified level α ∈ (0, 1). This work addresses the question of how to evaluate and compare classifiers in the NP setting. Simply reporting false positives and false n...

Background: Metabolic syndrome (MS) and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is a common public health problem. Visfatin is secreted by visceral adipose tissue and is an adipocytokine. It could be a pro-inflammatory adipocytokine and is related to the metabolic syndrome and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease. This study evaluated the association between visfatin levels in patients with the ...