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Rhythm and Melody Tasks for School-Aged Children With and Without Musical Training: Age-Equivalent Scores and Reliability [PDF]

Frontiers in Psychology, 2018
Measuring musical abilities in childhood can be challenging. When music training and maturation occur simultaneously, it is difficult to separate the effects of specific experience from age-based changes in cognitive and motor abilities. The goal of this
Kierla Ireland, Kierla Ireland, Averil Parker, Averil Parker, Nicholas Foster, Virginia Penhune, Virginia Penhune   +6 more
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The analgesic effect of fascia iliaca compartment block combined with superior cluneal nerve block after total hip arthroplasty: a prospective, triple-blind, randomized controlled trial [PDF]

BMC Anesthesiology
Background Postoperative analgesia for total hip arthroplasty (THA) constitutes a pivotal component of perioperative management. The fascia iliaca compartment block (FICB) is a widely utilized technique in clinical practice.
Zichen Zheng, Hanwei Gong, Zhibin Shi, Quanquan Qiu, Mengjiao Xie, Qianwei Sun, Mengxing Jia   +6 more
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Improved Scoring of Satisfaction with Life Scale

Revistamultidisciplinar.com, 2023
The Satisfaction with Life Scale (SWLS), a 5-item instrument with 7 response-categories per item, measures cognitive judgments of satisfaction with one's life using summative scoring where higher score implies higher life satisfaction.
Satyendra Chakrabartty
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Metabolic equivalent of task scores avoid the ceiling effect observed with conventional patient-reported outcome scores following knee arthroplasty

Bone & Joint Open, 2023
Aims: The metabolic equivalent of task (MET) score examines patient performance in relation to energy expenditure before and after knee arthroplasty. This study assesses its use in a knee arthroplasty population in comparison with the widely used Oxford ...
Arjun Patel, Thomas C. Edwards, Gareth Jones, Alexander D. Liddle, Justin Cobb, Amy Garner   +5 more
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Equality of admission tests using kernel equating under the non-equivalent groups with covariates design

International Journal of Assessment Tools in Education, 2021
Educational assessment tests are designed to measure the same psychological constructs over extended periods of time. This feature is important considering that test results are often used in the selection process for admittance to university programs ...
Gabriel Wallın, Özge Altıntaş
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The Italian telephone-based Verbal Fluency Battery (t-VFB): standardization and preliminary clinical usability evidence

Frontiers in Psychology, 2022
BackgroundThis study aimed at standardizing and providing preliminary evidence on the clinical usability of the Italian telephone-based Verbal Fluency Battery (t-VFB), which includes phonemic (t-PVF), semantic (t-SVF) and alternate (t-AVF) verbal fluency
Edoardo Nicolò Aiello, Alice Naomi Preti, Veronica Pucci, Veronica Pucci, Lorenzo Diana, Alessia Corvaglia, Chiara Barattieri di San Pietro, Chiara Barattieri di San Pietro, Teresa Difonzo, Stefano Zago, Ildebrando Appollonio, Sara Mondini, Sara Mondini, Nadia Bolognini, Nadia Bolognini   +14 more
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Olanzapine: Association Between a Typical Antipsychotic Drug and Aortic Calcification

Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine, 2021
Aims: This study concentrates on the relationship between antipsychotic drugs (APDs) and aortic calcification.Methods: All 56 patients with schizophrenia were divided into two groups according to aortic calcification index.
Chao Zhang, Dongdong Zheng, Weijing Feng, Huanji Zhang, Feng Han, Wanbing He, Aiting Liu, Hui Huang, Jie Chen   +8 more
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Order-based structure learning without score equivalence

Biometrika, 2023
Summary We propose an empirical Bayes formulation of the structure learning problem, where the prior specification assumes that all node variables have the same error variance, an assumption known to ensure the identifiability of the underlying causal directed acyclic graph.
Chang, Hyunwoong, Cai, James J., Zhou, Quan   +2 more
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Treatment Outcomes and Quality of Life in Oropharyngeal Cancer after Surgery-based versus Radiation-based Treatment [PDF]

Clinical and Experimental Otorhinolaryngology, 2010
ObjectivesAdvances in reconstruction and conservative surgery and the importance of quality of life (QOL) encouraged this reevaluation of surgery-based treatments for oropharyngeal cancer. We tried to compare treatment outcome and QOL after surgery-based
Tae Wook Kim, Hye-Youn Youm, Hayoung Byun, Young-Ik Son, Chung-Hwan Baek   +4 more
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Score Equivalence for Staged Trees

, 2022
Staged trees are a recently-developed, powerful family of probabilistic graphical models. An equivalence class of staged trees has now been characterised, and two fundamental statistical operators have been defined to traverse the equivalence class of a given staged tree.
Hughes, Conor, Strong, Peter, Shenvi, Aditi   +2 more
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