Comparison of emergency medical residency pre-board and board exams among universities of medical sciences in Iran [PDF]
Research and Development in Medical Education, 2020 Background: Designing and conducting residency exams have been the province of type I universities since 2005, based on the plans of the Medical Education Council. This study compared emergency medical residency pre-board and board exam results among the
Mohammad Barzegar +6 more
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Abnormal temporal coupling of tactile perception and motor action in Parkinson's disease [PDF]
, 2017 Evidence shows altered somatosensory temporal discrimination threshold (STDT) in Parkinson's disease in comparison to normal subjects. In healthy subjects, movement execution modulates STDT values through mechanisms of sensory gating.
Baione, Viola +8 more
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How CCDA instrument analyzed science pre-service teachers’ prior knowledge?
Biosfer, 2021 Increasing the effectiveness of learning is done by exploring the initial understanding of science teacher candidates for the concept of cells to be studied.
Safira Permata Dewi +2 more
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Discriminant analysis for the prediction and classification of tick-borne infections in some dairy cattle herds at Dakahlia Governorate, Egypt [PDF]
, 2017 This study was undertaken to use the variable loadings in linear discriminant analysis (LDA) to determine the most important predictors for the discrimination of tick-borne diseases (TBDs), particularly babesiosis and anaplasmosis and predict the group ...
Abo El Fadl, Eman A. +3 more
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Pakistan Armed Forces Medical Journal, 2021 Objective: To perform post analysis of multiple-choice questions given in the 2nd term and send up examinations of the years 2016 to 2018, to establish relationship between difficulty (DF) and discrimination indices (DI) and to find out significant mean ...
Musarat Ramzan +3 more
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Cogent Education, 2017 Item analysis is essential in improving items which will be used again in later tests; it can also be used to eliminate misleading items in a test. The study focused on item and test quality and explored the relationship between difficulty index (p-value)
Kennedy Quaigrain, Ato Kwamina Arhin
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Need for cognitive closure modulates how perceptual decisions are affected by task difficulty and outcome relevance [PDF]
, 2015 The aim of this study was to assess the extent to which Need for Cognitive Closure (NCC), an individual-level epistemic motivation, can explain inter-individual variability in the cognitive effort invested on a perceptual decision making task (the random
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To what extent are item discrimination values realistic? A new index for two-dimensional structures
International Journal of Assessment Tools in Education, 2022 Most researchers investigate the corrected item-total correlation of items when analyzing item discrimination in multi-dimensional structures under the Classical Test Theory, which might lead to underestimating item discrimination, thereby removing items
İbrahim Uysal, Abdullah Faruk Kılıç
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Comparison of Semantic and Episodic Memory BOLD fMRI Activation in Predicting Cognitive Decline in Older Adults [PDF]
, 2012 Previous studies suggest that task-activated functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) can predict future cognitive decline among healthy older adults.
Butts, Alissa +11 more
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Feature Selection Using Neighborhood based Entropy [PDF]
Journal of Universal Computer Science, 2022 Feature selection plays an important role as a preprocessing step for pattern recognition and machine learning. The goal of feature selection is to determine an optimal subset of relevant features out of a large number of features.
Fatemeh Farnaghi-Zadeh +2 more
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