Reproducibility has a foundational role in ensuring robust and trustworthy research, but achieving reproducibility can be challenging. This theme issue explores these challenges along with research implementations across communities addressing them, the goal of understanding impact existing solutions synthesizing lessons learned emerging best practices.

background and aims. the main purpose of this study was to assess intra- and inter-examiner reproducibility of probing depth measurements with a manual periodontal probe. materials and methods. in this study, 32 dental students in tabriz faculty of dentistry with normal periodontium were evaluated. each tooth of the upper right quadrants, except the third molars, was examined. probing depths we...

statement of problem: few longitudinal studies have evaluated the reproducibility of natural head position (nhp) with more than six months follow-up. purpose: the present investigation was conducted to estimate the reproducibility of nhp in adult cases after three years. materials and methods: this descriptive study was performed on 27 volunteer dental students, 19-29 years of age. one radiogra...

ABSTRACT Background: for treatment verification in radiation therapy. Several physical characteristics of ScanningLiquid filled Ionization Chamber EPID (SLIC-EPID) including: extra build-up layer,reproducibility and uniformity, and noise level were investigated.Electronic Portal Imaging Devices (EPIDs) have found an outstanding positionMaterials and Methods: equilibrium, 1-30 mm white water mat...

it is important to consider the health concerns of adolescents before developing and implementing public health promotion or health education curriculum programs aimed at ameliorating priority health problems experienced by adolescents. the aim of this study was to test the psychometric properties of the original adolescent health concern inventory (ahci) for use with an iranian population.this...

conclusions the he jump mat can be recommended in relation to the validity of constraints. in this study, only a part of the quality criteria were examined. for the final recommendation it is advised to examine the he jump mat on the other quality criteria (test-retest reliability, sensitivity change). background in the field of vertical jump diagnostics, force plates (fp) are the reference sta...

background: over recent decades, modern protocols of external beam radio¬therapy and radiation techniques such as intensity-modulated radiotherapy (imrt) have been developed. these methods are extremely sensitive to errors in treatment delivery, so that it is essential to apply a high resolution 3d dosimetry system that has high sensitivity and is capable of measuring and verifying the complex ...