BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE The aim of this trial was to investigate whether stroke patients who receive Cerebrolysin show improved motor function in the upper extremities at day 90 compared with patients who receive a placebo. METHODS This study was a prospective, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, multicenter, parallel-group study. Patients were treated with Cerebrolysin (30 mL/d) or ...

A stratification of a set, e.g. an analytic variety, is, roughly, a partition of it into manifolds so that these manifolds fit together “regularly”. Stratification theory was originated by Thom and Whitney for algebraic and analytic sets. It was one of the key ingredients in Mather’s proof of the topological stability theorem [Ma] (see [GM] and [PW] for the history and further applications of s...

BACKGROUND Research suggests that participants do not always adequately understand studies. While some consent interventions increase understanding, methodologic challenges have been raised in studying consent outside of actual trial settings. This study examined the feasibility of testing two consent interventions in actual studies and measured effectiveness of interventions in improving under...

this article examines statistical inference for  where and are independent but not identically distributed pareto of the first kind (pareto (i)) random variables with same scale parameter but different shape parameters. the maximum likelihood, uniformly minimum variance unbiased and bayes estimators with gamma prior are used for this purpose. simulation studies which compare the estimators are ...

Memory serves many different functions in everyday life, but none is more important than providing a link between the present and the past that allows us to re-visit previously experienced events, people, and places. This link becomes increasingly significant as we age: recollections of past experiences serve as the basis for a process of life review that assumes great importance to many older ...

Recent events have given rise to considerations of systemic sin and how the church should respond it. This article looks at passages in Hebrew Bible which demonstrate communal character atonement. God holds whole nation responsible despite righteous individuals, often for sins individuals. Paul develops this relation between individuals groups his ecclesiology. I argue from development that res...