background: this was a retrospective cephalometric study to develop a more precise estimation of soft tissue changes related to underlying tooth movment than simple relatioship betweenhard and soft tissues. materials and methods: the lateral cephalograms of 61 adult patients undergoing orthodontic treatment (31 = premolar extraction, 31 = nonextraction) were obtained, scanned and digitized befo...

background: although upper-extremity disability correlates with psychosocial aspects of illness the association with sleep disturbance in upper extremity disability is less certain. to evaluate whether sleep disturbance is associated with upper-extremity disability among patients with upper extremity illness, accounting for sociodemographic, condition-related, and psychosocial factors. methods:...

The cooling load prediction of heating, ventilating and air-conditioning (HVAC) systems in office buildings is fundamental work for optimizing the operation of HVAC systems. In this paper, an improved multivariable linear regression model is proposed to predict the daily mean cooling load of office buildings in which three main measures, including the principal component analysis (PCA) of meteo...

This paper demonstrates the effectiveness of ensemble machine learning algorithms over the conventional multivariable linear regression models including Ordinary Least Squares, Robust Linear Model, and Lasso Model. The ensemble machine learning algorithms include Adaboost, Random-Forest, Bagging, Extremely Randomized Trees, Gradient Boosting, and Extra Trees Regressor. With the progress of open...

We investigated the relationship of aortic pulse wave velocity (aPWV), a measure of central arterial stiffness, with the presence and quantity of coronary artery calcium (CAC) in a community-based sample of adults without prior history of heart attack or stroke (n=401, mean age 59.8 years, 53% men). ECG-gated waveforms of the right carotid and right femoral artery were obtained by applanation t...

Controlling for confounders is a crucial step in analytical observational studies, and multivariable models are widely used as statistical adjustment techniques. However, the validation of the assumptions of the multivariable regression models (MRMs) should be made clear in scientific reporting. The objective of this study is to review the quality of statistical reporting of the most commonly u...

BACKGROUND Hyperuricemia and markers of inflammation are correlated with the risk for hypertension. Whether hyperuricemia has any impact on the association between C-reactive protein (CRP) and hypertension is not known. METHODS AND RESULTS We analyzed cross-sectional data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 2009-2010, using ordinary least squares and logistic regression...