abstract background: medical malpractices in obstetrics are one of the main health concerns since in addition to the mortalities and morbidities caused for the two susceptible groups of mothers and neonates, they may lead to difficulties for the accused gynecologists and midwives in returning to their routine medical career and giving services to the patients. hence, this study was conducted to...

The use of remotely sensed imagery to generate land cover models is common today. Validation of these models typically involves the use of an independent set of ground-truth data which are used to calculate an error matrix resulting in estimates of omission, commission, and overall error. However, each estimate of error contains a degree of uncertainty itself due to 1) conceptual bias, 2) locat...

ABSTRACT Although it has been suggested that women are less likely than men to use cardinality in dealing with environmental space, there has been no direct empirical assessment of this claim. If women are less likely than men to use cardinality, it is not clear whether women lack the competence to use a coordinate system of reference or simply prefer another style of direction giving. To exami...

OBJECTIVE This study was conducted to validate the Advanced Test of Attention (ATA) of the visual attention version of Japanese children with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and to evaluate the efficacy of methylphenidate (OROS-MPH) and atomoxetine medications. METHODS To assess pharmacotherapy efficacy, the visual version of ATA was administered to 42 children with ADHD. Resu...

Heparin is widely used in a variety of settings for prevention and treatment of thromboembolic events. Data from a number of sources indicate that it is also one of the drugs most frequently associated with adverse events and medication errors, many of which are serious. National media attention has focused on recent events involving heparin and The Joint Commission has included heparin in its ...

Neuropsychologists often recommend that patients with dementia and their caregivers use environmental adaptations to improve everyday functioning. Although these recommendations are intuitive (e.g., reduce clutter), most have never been experimentally tested. This study examined whether and how environmental adaptations improved everyday action in Alzheimer's disease (AD). Forty-six outpatients...

Recent research shows that children with motor coordination problems (or developmental coordination disorder - DCD) show deficits in not only cool executive function (EF), but also hot EF. We aimed to determine whether this deficit of hot EF is due to heightened sensitivity to rewarding stimuli, specifically, or to a general deficit of cognitive control, like inhibition. Using two versions of a...

Evidence exists for deficits in error monitoring in autism. These deficits may be particularly important because they may contribute to excessive perseveration and repetitive behavior in autism. We examined the neural correlates of error monitoring using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) in 8–12-year-old children with high functioning autism (HFA, n = 11) and typically developing chi...