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THE USE OF RASCH MEASUREMENT MODEL IN ENGLISH TESTING

Siti Eshah Mokshein, Haliza Ishak, Hishamuddin Ahmad • Cakrawala Pendidikan: Jurnal Ilmiah Pendidikan (2019)

This study aimed at determining the quality of the English Paper 1 (EP1) items of UPSR trial examination for six graders in terms of its reliability, validity and items characteristics. It also sought to determine the difficulty levels of 4...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.21831/cp.v38i1.22750

Relative risk of suicide following exposure to recent stressors, Victoria, Australia

Angela Clapperton, Stuart Newstead, Lyndal Bugeja, Jane Pirkis • Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health (2019)

Abstract Objective: This study aimed to identify stressors over‐represented in the 12 months prior to death among 553 Victorian adults who died by suicide. Methods: Age‐ and sex‐specific suicide rates and relative risks of suicide were calc...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1111/1753-6405.12886

Survey the Situation of Furniture foreign trade, determine and prioritize the influencing indexes on export development (Case Study: Household Furniture)

Hassan Alizadeh, Mohamad mehdi Faezi pour, Majid Azizi, Mohssen Zyaei • تحقیقات علوم چوب و کاغذ ایران (2014)

Furniture industry have a significant share in global trade, Therefore, development of this industry to exhibit meaningful presence in international markets can influence growth of GDP and non-oil incomes for our country. The aim of this st...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.22092/ijwpr.2014.5695

Disposal practices of unused and expired pharmaceuticals among the general public in Quetta city, Pakistan.

Muhammad Shoaib, Abdul Raziq, Qaiser Iqbal, Fahad Saleem et al. • PLoS ONE (2022)

ObjectiveAlthough community practices towards disposal of expired and unused medications vary globally, the phenomenon is neglected specifically in developing countries. We, therefore, aimed to assess the disposal practices of unused and ex...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0268200

Therapeutic Efficacy of Orally Delivered Doxorubicin Nanoparticles in Rat Tongue Cancer Induced by 4-Nitroquinoline 1-Oxide

Monir Moradzadeh Khiavi, Ahamd Rostami, Hamed Hamishekar, Mehran Mesgari Abassi et al. • Advanced Pharmaceutical Bulletin (2015)

Purpose: Oral cancer is one of the most significant cancers in the world, and squamous cell carcinoma makes up about 94% of oral malignancies. The aim of the present study was to compare the efficacy of doxorubicin plus methotrexate - loa...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.15171/apb.2015.029

White matter structural changes in the visual pathway of thyroid-associated ophthalmopathy patients: a free water and multi-shell diffusion imaging study

Jiaqi Yao, Jiaqi Yao, Xinjian Lu, Jingxu Ma et al. • Frontiers in Neurology (2025)

BackgroundCompared to single-shell diffusion tensor imaging (DTI), free water (FW) and neurite orientation dispersion and density imaging (NODDI) offer a more comprehensive evaluation of microstructural alterations in cerebral white matter ...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3389/fneur.2025.1598510

Correlation between the Findings of Magnetic Resonance Imaging Shoulder and Shoulder Arthroscopy

Zubair Younis Ringshawl, Ajaz Ahmad Bhat, Zahid Bashir, Munir Farooq et al. • Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research (2020)

Introduction: Shoulder pain is a significant cause of decreased functional activity of an individual. The overall prevalence of shoulder pain is 16-26%, which makes it the third most common cause among musculoskeletal complaints. The cau...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.7860/JCDR/2020/44557.14048

Proficient randomized response model based on blank card strategy to estimate the sensitive parameter under negative binomial distribution

Gaurav Singh, Chandraketu Singh • Ain Shams Engineering Journal (2022)

This paper has great potential for estimating population proportion who possess stigmatized character by using Negative binomial distribution as a randomization device. The properties of the proposed estimation procedure have been examined....

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1016/j.asej.2021.10.006

Statistics, Not Experts

WILLIAM L. MEADOW, Cass Robert Sunstein • Duke Law Journal (2001)

The legal system should rely much more than it now does on statistical evidence. It should be cautious about the judgments of experts, who make predictable cognitive errors. Like everyone else, experts have a tendency to blunder about risk,...

OPENALEX Open Access DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/1373203

Regional, subregional and country-level full vaccination coverage in children aged 12–23 months for 34 countries in sub-Saharan Africa: a global analysis using Demographic and Health Survey data

Adama Ouedraogo, Patrice Ngangue, David Jean Simon, Vénunyé Claude Kondo Tokpovi et al. • BMJ Global Health (2025)

Objective This study estimated the proportion of children aged 12–23 months who were fully vaccinated in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), explored geographical disparities across subregions and countries, and identified country-level factors assoc...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1136/bmjgh-2024-018333

Patient and Attendant Satisfaction With Services at Medical College Hospital in Bangladesh: A Cross-Sectional Survey

Amit Bhowmick, Sumaiya Tohfa Afindi, Suchandana Rani • Health Services Insights (2026)

Background Patient satisfaction is a key indicator of healthcare quality, particularly in resource-constrained public health systems. Despite growing evidence on healthcare service quality in Bangladesh, comprehensive assessments incorporat...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1177/11786329261477455

Impact of pneumonia and lung cancer on mortality of women with hypertension

Yuechun Shen, Zuojun Tian, Dongfeng Lu, Junyao Huang et al. • Scientific Reports (2016)

Abstract Essential hypertension is one of the most severe women’s health problems. Modern life brings more chances of pulmonary diseases to human. The purpose of the study is to investigate weather pneumonia and lung cancer are associated w...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1038/s41598-016-0023-2

Peculiarities of urban youth interests’ realization in social conflicts

Babintsev Valentin, Gaidukova Galina, Ushamirskiy Alexey, Shapova Zhanna et al. • E3S Web of Conferences (2020)

The article is devoted to the problem of urban youth interest’s realization in the sphere of social conflicts, which is a critical situation determined on the one hand, by the overall logic of socio-cultural development, and, on the other, ...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1051/e3sconf/202015905004

An Investigation of Potential Health Risks from Zoonotic Bacterial Pathogens Associated with Farm Rats

Lorina Badger-Emeka, Yasmeen Al-Mulhim, Fatimah Al-Muyidi, Maram Busuhail et al. • Environmental Health Insights (2020)

Background: The 21st century has seen a wide range of diseases resulting from zoonotic infections, of which bacterial infections have led to outbreaks of food-borne diseases. Aim: The study looks at bacterial pathogen carriage by farm rats ...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1177/1178630220942240

Listening geographies

Michael Gallagher, Anja Kanngieser, Jonathan Prior • Progress in Human Geography (2016)

This paper argues for expanded listening in geography. Expanded listening addresses how bodies of all kinds, human and more-than-human, respond to sound. We show how listening can contribute to research on a wide range of topics, beyond enq...

OPENALEX cc-by-nc DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0309132516652952