Student exam scores, particularly for female and low-GPA students, improved significantly.
It was hypothesised that the groups reporting physical health problems would record lower summary scores, particularly for PCS.
It was hypothesised that the groups with PTSD and depression would record lower summary scores, particularly for MCS.
1, 34– 39 Furthermore, some studies using the SF-36 revealed that overweight people show a tendency toward lower scores, particularly for PCS, than people of normal weight.
Although results were similar when assessed 3 months after the courses, for both knowledge domains, we found higher knowledge scores, particularly for Biostatistics, immediately after the on-site courses, than after the on-line course.
This trend can be illustrated using the MW approach which shows 'hot' (red) and 'cold' (blue) spots relating to relative numbers of significant alignments and their scores – particularly for the four monocot test databases.
In addition, different from previous studies using position weight matrices [ 8, 33], we used raw scores rather than rescaled scores because separately rescaling the positive scores and the negative scores may also affect the distributions of scores, particularly for cases with both positive scores and negative scores.
Firstly, concerns exist over the use of metrics for analysing specific mental health conditions of war-affected populations in different cultural settings, including that they may over-estimate symptom scores, particularly for PTSD, and that there may be mixing of anxiety and depression symptoms which could result in over-estimated depression scores [ 37- 41].
They score particularly poorly for infrastructure and healthcare respectively.
