Vibrotactile discrimination tasks involve perceptual judgements on stimulus pairs separated by a brief interstimulus interval (ISI). Despite their apparent simplicity, decision making during these tasks is biased by prior experience in a manner that is not well understood. A striking example is when participants perform well on trials where the first stimulus is closer to the mean of the stimul...

BACKGROUND Small molecular CCR5 inhibitors represent a new class of drugs for treating HIV-1 infection. The evaluation of the primary resistance mutations associated with entry inhibitors during HIV-1 perinatal transmission is required because they may have a profound impact on the clinical management in MTCT. OBJECTIVES To evaluate the primary resistance mutations to maraviroc and vicriviroc...

BACKGROUND We investigated the use of the gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) antagonist degarelix in everyday clinical practice using registry data from uro-oncology practices in Germany. METHODS Data were analysed retrospectively from the IQUO (Association for uro-oncological quality assurance) patient registry. Data were prospectively collected from all consecutive PCa patients treated w...

Neural radiation field (NeRF)-based novel view synthesis methods are gaining popularity. NeRF can generate more detailed and realistic images than traditional methods. Conventional reconstruction of a room scene requires at least several hundred as input data generates spatial sampling points, placing tremendous burden on the training prediction process with respect to memory computational time...

Methods AIS patients with age over 10 years, Risser sign of 0 to II, within one year postmenarche, Cobb angle of 41 to 50 degrees before treatment and underwent no prior treatment were included in the study. At the final follow-up after the patients reached skeletal maturity, the rate of the patients whose curve was stabilized by the treatment (the curve had not progressed in more than 6 degree...

although filling the gap in reading comprehension gained momentum with the rise of the top-down approach, vygotsky’ concept of scaffolding and the dual code  theory provided a strong support for the use of paratext to enhance comprehension. scaffolding is dependent on other-regulation, one type of which is object-regulation. from this vantage-point, various types of paratext can function as sou...

Abstract This paper outlines a framework for quantifying the prior’s contribution to posterior inference in presence of prior-likelihood discordance, broader concept than usual notion conflict. We achieve this dual purpose by extending classic prior sample size, M, three directions: (I) estimating M beyond conjugate families; (II) formulating as relative that is function likelihood size k, M(k)...

purpose: the present study seeks to explore the effects of general language proficiency, text readability, and medical knowledge on comprehending medical texts. material & method: 63 medical students in the second year of their study were randomly selected from the english language classes. they answered 100 multiple-choice questions on grammar and vocabulary to establish the level of language ...