Esteves, Sandro C. Yarali, Hakan Ubaldi, Filippo M. Carvalho, José F. Bento, Fabiola C. Vaiarelli, Alberto Cimadomo, Danilo Özbek, İrem Y. Polat, Mehtap Bozdag, Gurkan
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Frontiers in Endocrinology
This multicenter study evaluated the reliability of the recently published ART calculator for predicting the minimum number of metaphase II (MII) oocytes (MIImin) to obtain at least one euploid blastocyst in patients undergoing in vitro fertilization/intracytoplasmic sperm injection (IVF/ICSI). We used clinical and embryonic retrospective data of 1...
Chernov, Yury Caspers, Claudia
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Behavioral Sciences
In contrast to traditional researches that involve a manual, non-quantitative, and subjective way of performing handwriting analysis, in the current research, a special computer-aided method of revised handwriting analysis is used. It includes the detection of personality traits via manual quantitative registration of handwriting signs and their au...
Tai, Bee Choo Chong, Mary Foong-Fong
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Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics
Background Food frequency questionnaires are often used to assess dietary intakes due to their ability to assess intake over extended periods, their low respondent burden and cost-effectiveness. A quantitative food frequency questionnaire (FFQ), which includes locally appropriate food items for five-year-old children in a multi-ethnic Asian populat...
Rapisarda, F Corbière, M Lesage, A D De Benedictis, L Pelletier, J F Felx, A Leblanc, Y Vallarino, M Miglioretti, M
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Epidemiology and psychiatric sciences
No instrument has been developed to explicitly assess the professional culture of mental health workers interacting with severely mentally ill people in publicly or privately run mental health care services. Because of theoretical and methodological concerns, we designed a self-administered questionnaire to assess the professional culture of mental...
Głąbska, Dominika Wojtas, Małgorzata Guzek, Dominika
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Nutrition & dietetics: the journal of the Dietitians Association of Australia
The aim of the study was to develop and validate the semi-quantitative brief food frequency questionnaire to assess the magnesium intake (Mg-FFQ). The developed questionnaire consists of 39 questions and it was validated in a group of 75 women aged 20-30. The validity was assessed with reference to the 3-day dietary record and the reproducibility w...
Sukumar, Deeptha DeLuccia, Rosemary Cheung, May Ramadoss, Rohit Ng, Tammy Lamoureux, Alicia
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Nutrients
Magnesium (Mg) intake is an important indication of an individual’s Mg status, but no validated food frequency questionnaire (FFQ) to assess intake currently exists. The purpose of this study was to develop and investigate the validity of a semi-quantitative Mg food frequency questionnaire (MgFFQ) against a 14-day food diary to assess average daily...
Abdollahi-Arpanahi, Rostam Carvalho, Murilo R Ribeiro, Eduardo S Peñagaricano, Francisco
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Journal of dairy science
Elongation of the preimplantation conceptus is a requirement for pregnancy success in ruminants, and failures in this process are highly associated with subfertility in dairy cattle. Identifying genetic markers that are related to early conceptus development and survival and utilizing these markers in selective breeding can improve the reproductive...
Slavin, Valerie Gamble, Jenny Creedy, Debra K Fenwick, Jennifer
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Neurourology and urodynamics
The International Consultation on Incontinence Questionnaire-Urinary Incontinence Short Form (ICIQ-UI SF) and the Wexner Scale have been included in the International Consortium for Health Outcomes Measurement core outcome set during pregnancy and childbirth, to measure urinary and anal incontinence. The reliability and validity of these instrument...
Kilpatrick, Kelley Paquette, Lysane Bird, Marissa Jabbour, Mira Carter, Nancy Tchouaket, Éric
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Journal of Multidisciplinary Healthcare
Purpose Few validated instruments are available to measure team functioning in acute and primary care teams. To address this, we developed a questionnaire measuring healthcare provider perceptions of team effectiveness (Provider-PTE) and assessed its psychometric properties. Patients and methods Empirical evidence and a conceptual model were used f...
Bauer, David W Butt, Nasir Hornyak, Jennifer M Perlin, Mark W
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Journal of forensic sciences
Most DNA evidence is a mixture of two or more people. Cybergenetics TrueAllele® system uses Bayesian computing to separate genotypes from mixture data and compare genotypes to calculate likelihood ratio (LR) match statistics. This validation study examined the reliability of TrueAllele computing on laboratory-generated DNA mixtures containing up to...
