Purpose: Transrectal prostate biopsy has come under scrutiny due to potential for
postbiopsy infections and transperineal prostate biopsy is being offered as the safer …

Background: Interventions are needed to help people reduce exposure to harmful chemicals
from everyday products and lifestyle habits. Report-back of individual exposures is a …

Teachers are encouraged to inform their professional actions by evidence. Consequently, it
is important to know how they perceive and understand statistical results. In a representative …

Purpose This paper aims to determine the impact of mentorship on the development of self-
directedness among beginner teachers in their initial years of teaching …

Background It is a priority for public health professionals to improve global breastfeeding
rates, which have remained low in Western countries for more than a decade. Few …

The first case of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in South Korea was confirmed on
January 20, 2020, approximately three weeks after the report of the first COVID-19 case in …

The acoustic characteristics of noise from fricatives and stop releases are difficult to analyze.
The spectral characteristics of such noise are multi-dimensional, and popular methods for …

Misuse of statistical significance continues to be prevalent in science. The absence of
intuitive explanations of this concept often leads researchers to incorrect conclusions. For …

Introduction Infection with hepatitis A virus (HAV) during pregnancy, although uncommon, is
associated with gestational complications and pre-term labor. Hepatitis A vaccine (HepA) is …

The reporting effect sizes (ESs) and confidence intervals (CIs) of ESs has become
recommended practice in the social sciences; however, these values are frequently omitted …