PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To explore methods for analysis of unsolicited comments written on forced-choice surveys related to health-related quality of life (HRQOL) among men treated for prostate cancer. DATA SOURCES Unsolicited comments written on surveys administered as part of a study investigating HRQOL for men receiving surgery, external beam radiation therapy, or brachytherapy for prostate can...

ANALYSIS OF QUESTIONS Each question will be considered separately in what follows, and a general statement based on the answers will be made, and followed by relevant comments. For the purpose of this comparison each Medical School has been given a number. 0. 1. WHAT IS THE NUMBER OF ANAESTHETISTS WHO ARE AVAILABLE FOR TEACHING? (a) FULL-TIME, (b) PART-TIME. (See Table I.) General Statement. In...

I’d like to thank the authors for writing this paper. As a designer of such analyzers, I find it a pleasure to see such an excellent independent performance evaluation. I have no additional technical comments to offer beyond what has already been suggested by the other reviewers. I do want to offer one comment related to a statement from anonymous referee #2: "...presents a comprehensive compar...

OBJECTIVE To update for both clinicians and the lay public the evidence-based position statement published by The North American Menopause Society (NAMS) in July 2008 regarding its recommendations for menopausal hormone therapy (HT) for postmenopausal women, with consideration for the therapeutic benefit-risk ratio at various times through menopause and beyond. METHODS An Advisory Panel of cl...

Co-clustering leads to parsimony in data visualisation with a number of parameters dramatically reduced in comparison to the dimensions of the data sample. Herein, we propose a new generalized approach for nonlinear mapping by a re-parameterization of the latent block mixture model. The densities modeling the blocks are in an exponential family such that the Gaussian, Bernoulli and Poisson laws...

Chapelle (2003) proposed three general types of input enhancement that help L2 learners “acquire features the linguistic they are exposed to during course reading or listening for meaning” (p. 40): salience, modification, and elaboration. In 2010, Cárdenas-Claros Gruba argued Chapelle’s different “can be have been operationalized through options” primarily utilized in teaching reading, listenin...