Previous research has reviewed the quality of online information related to specific mental disorders. Yet, no comprehensive study has been conducted on the overall quality of mental health information searched for online. This study examined the first 20 search results of two popular search engines-Google and Bing-for 11 common mental health terms. They were analyzed using the DISCERN instrume...

OBJECTIVE To determine the quality and content of English language Internet information about juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) from the perspectives of consumers and healthcare professionals. METHODS Key words relevant to JIA were searched across 10 search engines. Quality of information was appraised independently by 2 health professionals, 1 young adult with JIA, and a parent using the D...

The study presents the development of an integrated model that optimises the performances of Neural Nets (NN) and dispersion models developed by the authors. Supervised NN models and dispersion models are two important techniques for evaluating air pollution concentrations. In our work we filter the concentration levels produced by an air pollution model with an NN to account for disagreement b...

BACKGROUND The written informed consent form (WICF) provides information that must be written in simple, easily understood language, highlighting voluntary participation safeguards, risks, possible benefits, and procedures. Currently, the possibility that research subjects do not fully understand the text of the WICF or their rights as participants, despite having signed the WICF and agreed to ...

We cultured separate lines of Chinook salmon fry Oncorhynchus tshawytscha of Chickamin River, Southeast Alaska ancestry in 7 common garden enclosures. A parentage analysis based on variation of microsatellite alleles showed that within these lines, 7 brother-sister matings (F = 0.25) had created 35 inbred fi sh in 7 families [bred from 6 females (dams) and 6 related males (sires)], and other ma...

Vascular ring caused by double aortic arch most commonly occurs as an isolated anomaly (Keith, Rowe, and Vlad, I967). However, its association with pulmonary stenosis (Bahnson and Blalock, I950), tetralogy of Fallot (Griswold and Young, I949; Stewart, Kincaid, and Edwards, I964), truncus arteriosus (Kerwin, I936), ventricular septal defect and left superior vena cava (Lincoln et al., I969), and...