Obesity and morbid obesity represent one of the major public health problems in the United States (U.S.) that affects nearly one-third of the adult American population. Gastric bypass (GB) is a complex operation, performed in a high-risk morbidly ...
Transfer to utility (TTU) or mapping methodology allows researchers to estimate a health utility from a disease-specific measure and calculate quality adjusted life years for economic evaluations. The purpose of this study was to develop regressio...
Monte-Carlo (MC) tree search is a new research field. Its effectiveness in searching large state spaces, such as the Go game tree, is well recognized in the computer Go community. Go domain-specific heuristics and techniques as well as domain-inde...
Objectives: The study examined the association between an index of household wealth and key nutritional status indicators in children under age five in Armenia. The study compared the distribution of the child nutritional status indicators across ...