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Introduction: What is a systematic review? A systematic review is a paper that summarizes the results of available studies and provides information on the reliability of results and evidence by working to delimit bias (Schlosser, R., 2006). It may or may not make judgment on the value of this information for health care practice. To have a better understanding of what a systematic review is, I decided to look more closely at one myself. After considering my recent experience in the nursing lab…

Analysis of the Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory-III The Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory-III (MCMI-III) was designed to be utilized as an assessment tool for clinical syndromes and personality disorders. Over the years, the Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory (MCMI) has had revisions following changes to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM). The MCMI-III was in response to the DSM-IV revision. With the DSM now in the 5th edition, it is worth mentioning…

A Systems Development life cycle is a term used to describe the process for planning, creating, testing and creating information system. The system development life cycle applies to hardware as well as software configurations. A systems development life cycle consists of a number of clearly defined and distinct phases, these phases are used by Engineer’s and developers to plan for and deliver information systems. Application development life cycle (system development life cycle) also refers…

Extrapolation Observations will be estimated for Mycophenolate mofetil and its active metabolite Mycophenolic acid (MPA) by using Phoenix WinNonlin 6.3. 4.2.12. Statistical Analysis: Summary statistics, ANOVA, intra subject variability, 90% confidence intervals and power will be calculated using SAS version 9.2. 4.2.13. Safety Assessments:  In each period, vital signs monitoring will be carried out at the time of each period check-in, pre-dose and at 1.00, 3.00, 6.00, 10.00, 24.00 (with a…

All-cause mortality and cardiovascular mortality also had a confidence interval (CI) of 0.90-1.05 & 0.80-1.12, respectively; both include 1.00, which implies that there was no statistical difference between the control and intervened groups studied. In addition, these same results apply for substituting SFA with PUFA on…

Knight Captain Jona Falx strapped his small sub-machine gun to the back of his snugly fitting Verian uniform as he stepped out of the comfort of the Verian Protection Embassy and onto familiar Cerinian soil. As was his custom and duty every other week, he traveled the insane, but less than time-consuming distance from Veris Alpha to their heavily influenced state planet Cerinia to check on his designated family. The Verian Kingdom and Cerinia’s top tribal leaders established this custom back…

Past research on the effect of praise on preschool children has focused on performance and motivation, not perseverance. In this study, we examined the effect of effort-based versus neutral feedback on children’s perseverance on a puzzle task. We hypothesized that children who were given effort-based feedback would persist longer on a difficult puzzle than children who were given neutral feedback. We found no effect of type of feedback on perseverance, and we must reject our hypothesis.…

Bone is a major component of the human body which provides structural support, protects vital organs, and stores minerals such as calcium. As the body ages, the process of bone remodeling maintains bone mass; however, bone resorption may eventually overcome formation leading to osteoporosis and subsequent musculoskeletal disorders.1 Approximately ten million individuals in the United States, particularly those 60 years of age and older, are diagnosed with osteoporosis each year.2 This condition…

Tennis Serve Analysis The all important tennis serve; people say it’s the hardest part in tennis; that the server wins the point and so people need to know how to do it well. In this presentation I will compare and contrast my tennis serve with a professional to highlight my weaknesses and to provide recommendations through different types of practice and feedback to improve my serve. The major weakness in my tennis serve is the incorrect balance of weight in the prep phase, no snap of the…

are the values we gather ourselves from the given information. The expected value is what it should be in order for us to accept our hypothesis. The p-value in a Chi Square test tells you the likely hood of your hypothesis being within a 95% confidence interval. If the p-value is smaller or equal to the variable, then reject your null hypothesis in favor of your alternative hypothesis. If the p-value is greater than the variable, then don’t reject null hypothesis. A chi square (X2) value is a…