mathematical modeling for predicting outcomes in laparoscopic urology

... 2000 Information retrieval on the web ACM Computing Surveys, 32(2) Y Liu, J Bian, and E Agichtein 2008 Predicting information seeker satisfaction in community question answering In Proceedings ... luck” in answer ”is an” in answer ”want to” in answer ”we” in answer ”want in answer ”adenocarcinoma” in question ”was” in question ”live” in answer Q avg pos votes ”would” in answer ”answer” in ... by information gain for ASP (trained for all askers) and ASP Group (trained for the group of askers with 20 to 29 questions) Conclusions We have presented preliminary results on personalizing...

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... Markov Chain Monte Carlo In Practice Chapman and Hall/CRC Thomas L Griffiths, Mark Steyvers, David M Blei, and Joshua B Tenenbaum 2005 Integrating topics and syntax In In Advances in Neural Information ... statistically significant increases Conclusions and Future Work This paper has described using a domainindependent document modeling approach of avoiding low-content syntax words in an NLP task where ... Association for Computational Linguistics, pages 362–370, Morristown, NJ, USA Association for Computational Linguistics Chin-Yew Lin 2004 Rouge: A package for automatic evaluation of summaries In Stan...

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... proposed in (Yi et al., 2000; Bulyko and Ostendorf, 2001) (a) How can we collect a training corpus for building a statistical model? Ideally, the training corpus could be human-labeled, as in speech ... available for our training corpus, we could exploit that in the initial labeling phase for the design of the unit selection system (2) Weighted finite-state transducer representation In addition to ... The string potentials of the states of T can be computed using the generic shortest-distance algorithm of (Mohri, 2002) over the string semiring They can be used in composition in the following...

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... used for model development subjects subjects Force data in response to parameterizing trains Force data in response to parameterizing trains 10 subjects Force data in response to testing trains ... using 14-Hz, 770 ms long trains before delivering the parameterizing and testing trains (see the section below for details of the parameterizing and testing trains) Experimental procedure for ... characterizing the magnitude of enhancement in CN from the following stimuli instantaneous force due to stimulation spring stiffness damping coefficient shortening velocity of motor scaling factor for force...

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... in Europe Clin Microbiol Infect 2003, 9(12):1179-86 Revised guidelines for the control of Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in hospitals In J Hosp Infect Volume 39 British Society for ... Gender against patient outcome Discussion The increasing incidence of MRSA colonisation in patients from institutional settings is well documented and rates of nosocomial MRSA infection have increased ... institutional settings Interestingly, heterogeneity between institutional settings is noted Data from the Office of National Statistics showed a Risk Ratio (RR) of 8.0 for MRSA colonisation in...

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... multinational study of health state preferences from infected and uninfected persons Value in Health 2008, 11:527-538 Dale W, Basu A, Elstein A, Meltzer D: Predicting Utility Ratings for Joint ... disease, in line with published guidelines for health state development [15] Development was an iterative process that involved incorporating input from the literature, patient web-based discussion forums, ... health at the point where the respondent was indifferent between staying in the health state and taking the gamble Utility scores range from 0.0, reflecting being dead, to 1.0, reflecting full health...

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... to be effective in improving outcomes We interpret this as providing further evidence that the clinical settings are CASs For interventions to be effective in improving patient outcomes, they ... understand interventions in routine outpatient practice, and to have uniformity in the types of settings included, we excluded studies conducted in nursing home or palliative care settings To focus ... guidance for how to approach disseminating research findings into routine care The CAS framework suggests that local contexts and local interactions between individuals are critical considerations in...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 10:23

... a peak value Combining information of severity of illness at admission and information on the course of illness during treatment, in contrast to comparing them, seems promising and two strategies ... alone with a model including max SOFA and infection, and a model including max SOFA, infection and age [7] The last model had very good calibration and discrimination, and outperformed the model ... temporal SAPS II model including a weighted average of the SOFA scores Except for day the model including frequent IOF patterns performed best in terms of both discrimination and accuracy as...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 11:23

... of numerous clinical data concerning the individual patient, particularly information relating to biomarkers However, translational integration of this large amount of information into one risk ... model use all available information including non-clinical information from genes and proteins, therapeutic interventions and genetic polymorphism or comorbidities Therefore, this study presented ... Modelling 2011, 8:28 http://www.tbiomed.com/content/8/1/28 Inserting the realizations of the variables for any patient resulted in an individual ISIR score, with large values for ISIR indicating...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 16:20

... nM-1·min-1 = min-1 = 2500 nM-1·min-1 = min-1 = 4000 nM-1·min-1 = 200 min-1 = × 107 min-1 = 10 min-1 = nM-1·min-1 = 10 nM-1·min-1 =0 = min-1 = 2.2 µM·min-1 = 0.4 nM-1·min-1 =0 =0 = 0.0002 min-1 ... Time (min) Figure 10 of released during minute pulses of GnRH administered every 30 LHGnRH minutes at2the indicated increasing concentrations LH released during minute pulses of GnRH administered ... Janovick JA, Lin X, Conn PM: Simultaneous and independent visualization of the gonadotropin-releasing hormone receptor and its ligand: evidence for independent processing and recycling in living cells...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 22:22

... battery modeling, a review of existing modeling works that are relevant to the studies conducted in this thesis is also presented in this chapter 2.1 Theories of mathematical modeling Employing mathematical ... fundamental modeling framework The following literature review mainly focuses on the theories used in setting up the modeling framework of lithium-ion batteries Apart from reviewing the theories for ... (both internal and external) and factors In this thesis, only irreversible capacity fade is taken into account 1.2 MATHEMATICAL MODELING OF LITHIUM-ION BATTERIES 1.2 Mathematical modeling of...

Ngày tải lên: 09/09/2015, 08:12

... original work and it has been written by me in its entirety I have duly acknowledged all the sources of information which have been used in the thesis This thesis has also not been submitted for ... information which have been used in the thesis This thesis has also not been submitted for any degree in any university previously _ Karthik Somasundaram 17 October 2012 à ...

Ngày tải lên: 09/09/2015, 17:54

... 2008b) Therefore, the VF constructed wetland cultivated with forage rice is a fascinating subject To design an adequate VF constructed wetland using forage rice, it is required to understand in detail ... the maximum daily radiation during the experimental period [MJ/m2] The variations of fgs are discussed below Forcing Functions Some forcing functions were included in the model The daily average ... plant height increased until 120 days after transplantation, and thereafter a constant height was maintained in every case The leaf area index (LAI), however, increased until heading and then...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 09:38

... combinations of form-function values of gender, number and rationality for nominals in our corpus In terms of gender, the M value seems to be twice as common as F both in form and function In ... features to the in ected forms Default form-based gender and number are provided As for rationality, adjectives receive a default N and everything else gets I The guidelines explained the form-function ... pluMS rals: ktAb ( M P )4 and ktb¯ ( MS ) In adh FP dition to broken plurals, Arabic has a class of broken feminines in which the feminine singular form is derived templatically: e.g., the adjective...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 22:20

... is already determined by the input data, we were especially interested in identifying conditions with high lipolytic activity in silico to explain the experimental data Therefore, maximum LD ... phosphatidylcholine; PE, phosphatidylethanolamine; PI, phosphatidylinositol; PS, phosphatidylserine; SE, steryl esters permitting or forbidding a flux from TAG degradation products to virtual MP, in DFBA, ... CDP-ethanolamine and CDP-choline to DAG if choline and ethanolamine are present in the medium In our study, this pathway was disabled to reduce the complexity of analysis, thus forcing the cells...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 04:20

... the material contained herein Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com) Foreword The new monograph ‘ Mathematical Modeling in Mechanics of ... εv = σ form a total system for determining strain from given stress or stress from given strain for εv > ε p Hence it follows that strain is determined in terms of stress by integrating the ... based on aluminum, copper, nickel, tin, zinc and other metals are developed According to the information published in Internet, A Rabiney from the University of North Carolina (USA) in 2010 created...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 22:20

... conducted (for of 39 instruments) and for only instrument both interviews and focus groups were conducted For instruments, the method of generating patient input was not reported and for instruments, ... longitudinal testing of the validity is of special interest whereas for instruments with 12 discriminative or planning aims, cross-sectional testing of the validity is sufficient For instruments with ... excluded resulting in 104 instruments from 103 full texts (the article of Mannerkorpi & Hernelid (2005) [14] provided information for the development process of two instruments) included in the review...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... Wireless Communications and Networking During the measurements, the airship was flying over a building in various directions in order to obtain results statistically independent on the azimuth angle ... loss into the ground floor of an office building (i) an office building, (ii) an office building with storeys higher than surrounding buildings, (iii) a brick building, (iv) a prefab residential building ... elevation angle in office building at 2.0 GHz buildings is depicted in Figure The corresponding empirical parameters for model (1) are summarized in Table This dependence can easily be used in system...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 23:20

... Communications and Networking formulas are inferred for the path loss, slow- and fastfading, and interference modeling A comparison with a physical-optics-based ray-tracing model is also successfully ... dealt with by the following papers The paper by Jemai and K¨ rner investigates the peru formance boundaries of a calibrated ray-tracing model in indoor scenarios It is indeed well known that the ... paper on geometry-based modeling by Zhang et al investigates several possible simplifications of geometry-based models in view of reducing their complexity without compromising their accuracy The...

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... engineers for nearly a century Murdoch investigated this problem as part of a theoretical study in illumination engineering [7] He demonstrated that modeling a Lambertian luminous rectangle as a point ... engineering from Hefei University of Technology and North China Electric Power University, Beijing, China, in 1982 and 1984, respectively He obtained his Sc.D degree in electrical engineering ... engineering and information technology from Vienna University of Technology, Austria, in 2002 He is currently a Special Appointed Professor in the College of Information Engineering, North China Electric...

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