This reductionist approach relies on correlation and regression analyses and, despite the vast effort to predict sports injuries, it has been limited in its ability to successfully identify predictive ...

Table 3 shows the job-related factors that were perceived by the participants to contribute to WMSDs in the CD workplace. Lifting and loading patients (250, 57.5%) and bending and twisting (236, 54.3% ...

aHealth Protection Scotland, College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK bInstitute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, College of Medicine and Veterinary ...

The demographic and clinical characteristics of the high stroke risk populations are listed in Table 1. Among the participants, 20,785 patients had ≥3 stroke risk factors, and 6,032 and 3,358 patients ...

Cardiovascular disease in diabetes is multifactorial, and control of the cardiovascular risk factors leads to substantial reductions in cardiovascular events. The 2015 American Heart Association and ...

Abstract: In this paper, we study statistical methods for estimating the Rician K-factor when this parameter is small. A fiducial approach for making statistical inference on the K-factor is discussed ...