A Glimpse of Taiwan from A Short-term Intern’s Perspective

This short essay is a casual narration on the experience of a student intern who has stayed in a Taiwanese university and accommodated some Taiwan students in the Philippines. The author shares some of his insights as regards Taiwanese culture, student interactions, and the Chinese language in general

V559A and N822I double KIT mutant melanoma with predictable response to imatinib?

Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/88125/1/j.1755-148X.2010.00822.x.pd

3D-Printed Hand Controlled by Arm Gestures to Verify the Robustness and Reliability of a Low Cost Surface Electromyography System

The study focuses on the development of a low-cost surface electromyography and 3D-printed hand gesture-recognition system. The complete system captures four (4) channels of EMG data through sEMG amplifier circuits interfaced to an Arduino prototyping board. This data is sent to a workstation wherein the graphical user interface shows the pre-processed signal. The gestures are used as control for the movements of the 3D-printed arm

A Comprehensive Examination of the Immediate Recovery of Children Following Tonsillectomy and Adenoidectomy

Objectives Using multiple well-validated measures and a large sample size, the goal of this paper was to describe the immediate clinical and behavioral recovery of children following tonsillectomy with or without an adenoidectomy (T&A) during the first two weeks following surgery. Study design Observational, longitudinal study. Setting Four major pediatric hospitals in the U.S. consisting of Children\u27s Hospital of Orange County, Children\u27s Hospital of Los Angeles, Lucile Packard Children\u27s Hospital, and Children\u27s Hospital Colorado. Subjects and Methods: Participants included 827 patients between 2 and 15 years of age who underwent tonsillectomy with or without adenoidectomy surgery. Baseline and demographic information were gathered prior to surgery, and measures of clinical, behavioral, and physical recovery were recorded immediately following and up through two weeks after surgery. Results Pain following T&A was clinically significant through the first post-operative week and nearly resolved by the end of the second week. Negative behavioral changes were highly prevalent after surgery (75.6% of children at Day 0) through the first week (63.9% at Week 1), and over 20% of children continued to evidence new onset negative behavioral changes at two weeks post-operatively. Children were rated as experiencing significant functional impairment in the immediate three days following surgery and most children returned to baseline functioning by the end of the second week. Conclusions Results of this study suggest that children show immediate impairment in functioning and experience clinically significant pain throughout the first week following T&A, and new onset maladaptive behavioral changes persisting even up to the two-week assessment period

Justify your alpha

Benjamin et al. proposed changing the conventional “statistical significance” threshold (i.e.,the alpha level) from p ≤ .05 to p ≤ .005 for all novel claims with relatively low prior odds. They provided two arguments for why lowering the significance threshold would “immediately improve the reproducibility of scientific research.” First, a p-value near .05provides weak evidence for the alternative hypothesis. Second, under certain assumptions, an alpha of .05 leads to high false positive report probabilities (FPRP2 ; the probability that a significant finding is a false positive

Justify your alpha

In response to recommendations to redefine statistical significance to p ≤ .005, we propose that researchers should transparently report and justify all choices they make when designing a study, including the alpha level

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博第1676号甲第1676号博士(工学)奈良先端科学技術大学院大

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修士(Master)工学(Engineering)奈良先端科学技術大学院大学修第7046