The aim of this study was to assess antidepressant efficacy and safety of venlafaxine extended release in Japanese patients with major depressive disorder (MDD). We carried out a double-blinded, placebo-controlled, randomized study using fixed (75 mg/day) and flexible (75-225 mg/day, most patients attained to 225 mg/day) doses, followed by the long-term, open-labeled, extension study. Outpatien...

Researchers have found that rigid dietary control is connected to higher psychological distress, including disordered and disinhibited eating. Two approaches have been touted by certain scholars and/or health organizations as healthier alternatives: intuitive eating and flexible control-yet these approaches have not been compared in terms of their shared variance with one another and psychologi...

BACKGROUND The methods currently available to estimate age- and sex-specific mortality rates for sub-populations are subject to a number of important limitations. We propose two alternative multivariable approaches: a relational model and a Poisson model both using restricted cubic splines. METHODS We evaluated a flexible Poisson and flexible relational model against the Elandt-Johnson approa...

This article presents a method of word sense disambiguation that assigns a target word the sense that is most related to the senses of its neighboring words. We explore the use of measures of similarity and relatedness that are based on finding paths in a concept network, information content derived from a large corpus, and word sense glosses. We observe that measures of relatedness are useful ...

At many national statistical organizations, linear sensitivity measures such as the prior-posterior and dominance rules provide the basis for assessing statistical disclosure risk in tabular magnitude data. However, these measures are not always well-suited for issues present in survey data such as negative values, respondent waivers and sampling weights. In order to address this gap, this pape...

In this paper we consider three measures of overlap, namelyMatusia’s measure ρ, Morisita’s measure λ and Weitzman’s measure∆. These measures are usually used in quantitative ecology and stress-strength models of reliability analysis. Herein we consider two Weibull distributions having the same shape parameter and different scale parameters. This distribution is known to be the most flexible lif...

We introduce a flexible lifetime distribution called Burr III-Inverse Weibull (BIII-IW). The new proposed distribution has well-known sub-models. The BIII-IW density function includes exponential, left-skewed, right-skewed and symmetrical shapes. The BIII-IW model’s failure rate can be monotone and non-monotone depending on the parameter values. To show the importance of the BIII-IW distributio...

There are many numerous methods for solving large-scale problems in which some of them are very flexible and efficient in both linear and non-linear cases. League championship algorithm is such algorithm which may be used in the mentioned problems. In the current paper, a new play-off approach will be adapted on league championship algorithm for solving large-scale problems. The proposed algori...

background and purpose: delirium is a clinical syndrome with cognitive disorder, which occurs within a short time in the admitted patients, specially the elderly. regarding the fact that one third of the delirium incidences is preventable, applying nursing preventive measures is an issue of fundamental importance. the present study aimed to perform a systematic review over the nursing preventiv...