methods: in a retrospective descriptive study, medical records of 204 hip fractured patients with the age of 60 or older who were admitted to the department of orthopedics was considered regarding routine laboratory tests. predictive values of these tests were assessed using receiver operating characteristic curve (roc).  results: the incidence of death due to hip fracture was 24%. the mortalit...

UNLABELLED Background and rationale for the study. We designed to test whether there is interaction of maternal separation (MS) on the ethanol-preferring rats liver structure. The UCh rat pups were separated daily from their mothers during the stress hyporesponsive period (SHRP), between four and 14 days-old, always at the same time for four hours in a cage containing eight subdivisions, one fo...

The most unacceptable structural damage of porous asphalt top layers is the loss of stones leading to raveling. Therefore it is important to predict when the porous asphalt top layer will achieve a critical level of raveling so as to allocate funds for necessary maintenance. SHRP-NL database including eight provinces of the Netherlands was used as the data resource. Artificial Neural Network (A...

Dingus and colleagues recently estimated crash odds ratios (ORs) for “driver behavior errors” (hereafter, “Behaviors”) in the Strategic Highway Research Program Phase 2 naturalistic driving study. Behaviors are illegal, improper, aggressive, and/or reckless driving maneuvers. For example, the Dingus study OR estimate for “Speeding over limit and too fast for conditions,” (hereafter, “Speeding”)...

Background: Autism is a neurodevelopmental disorder that onset in the first 3 years of life and led to lifelong disability.Despite the early onset of symptoms, diagnosis of thissyndromedoes not happenuntil severalyears later, somany childrenlosethe opportunityfor earlyintervention.There arevarious toolsforscreening anddiagnosis, buttheirdesign, strengths and weaknesses aredifferent. The aim of ...