Computed Tomography — An Increasing Source of Radiation Exposure
The number of computed tomographic (CT) studies performed is increasing rapidly. Because CT scans involve much higher doses of radiation than plain films, we are seeing a marked...
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The Scherrer Formula for X-Ray Particle Size Determination
An exact derivation of the Scherrer equation is given for particles of spherical shape, values of the constant for half-value breadth and for integral breadth being obtained. Va...
A Rating Scale for Mania: Reliability, Validity and Sensitivity
Summary An eleven item clinician-administered Mania Rating Scale (MRS) is introduced, and its reliability, validity and sensitivity are examined. There was a high correlation be...
Guidelines, criteria, and rules of thumb for evaluating normed and standardized assessment instruments in psychology.
In the context of the development of prototypic assessment instruments in the areas of cognition, personality, and adaptive functioning, the issues of standardization, norming p...
PSYCHOLOGICAL CONDITIONS OF PERSONAL ENGAGEMENT AND DISENGAGEMENT AT WORK.
This study began with the premise that people can use varying degrees of their selves, physically, cognitively, and emotionally, in work role performances, which has implication...
Measuring agreement in method comparison studies
Agreement between two methods of clinical measurement can be quantified using the differences between observations made using the two methods on the same subjects. The 95% limit...
Asylums: Essays on the Social Situation of Mental Patients and Other Inmates.
A total institution is defined by Goffman as a place of residence and work where a large number of like-situated, individuals, cut off from the wider society for an appreciable ...
Development of a WHO growth reference for school-aged children and adolescents
The new curves are closely aligned with the WHO Child Growth Standards at 5 years, and the recommended adult cut-offs for overweight and obesity at 19 years. They fill the gap i...
Exploring the Limits of Transfer Learning with a Unified Text-to-Text\n Transformer
Transfer learning, where a model is first pre-trained on a data-rich task\nbefore being fine-tuned on a downstream task, has emerged as a powerful\ntechnique in natural language...
Healthy work: stress, productivity, and the reconstruction of working life
Suggests a strategy for redesigning jobs to reduce unnecessary stress and improve productivity and job satisfaction.
A Multiscalar Drought Index Sensitive to Global Warming: The Standardized Precipitation Evapotranspiration Index
Abstract The authors propose a new climatic drought index: the standardized precipitation evapotranspiration index (SPEI). The SPEI is based on precipitation and temperature dat...
k-ANONYMITY: A MODEL FOR PROTECTING PRIVACY
Consider a data holder, such as a hospital or a bank, that has a privately held collection of person-specific, field structured data. Suppose the data holder wants to share a ve...