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... without imputation of missing data are 1.61 (1.13 to 2.31; P = 0.01) for the prediction of serious complications and 1.65 (0.97 to 2.79; P = 0.06) for the prediction of death ness of fit test) The ... bottom of the plots display the distribution of the biomarker Schuetz et al Critical Care 2010, 14:R106 http://ccforum.com/content/14/3/R106 Page of 14 Table 3: Logistic model for the prediction of ... Schuetz et al Critical Care 2010, 14:R106 http://ccforum.com/content/14/3/R106 Page of 14 Table 4: Performance of multivariable models for the prediction of death, ICU or complication in CAP patients...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 10:02

... suitable for our neighborhood prediction study 6.2 Metrics We will utilize the following performance metrics to evaluate the effectiveness of PARIS in terms of prediction of near likely nodes Prediction ... together, the values of correlation coefficients are high in 4.3 Measurement of Accuracy of Neighborhood Prediction One challenge of data-centric mobile wireless networks is the efficiency of data retrieval, ... accuracy of neighborhood prediction and evaluate the effectiveness of our prediction schemes In this section, we present our new metric Prediction Accuracy in measuring neighborhood prediction...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 18:20

... larger for a case with higher inlet distortion level regardless of what the inlet size of distorted region is On the other hand, for a case with higher inlet distortion level, the radius of curvature ... will decrease with the decreasing of inlet distortion level With the increase of inlet flow angle, the peak point of outlet size of distorted region will move forward along α ( ) axes (Figure ... size of distorted region vs α ( ) with smaller inlet size of distorted region of 0.1 To ease in comparing the results between different inlet sizes of distorted region, we define the level of distortion...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 21:20

... curve When we defined a mean primary tumor SUV of greater than 5.0 and positive uptake of FDG in perigastric lymph nodes as cutoff values for prediction of non-curative resection, the sensitivity, ... FDG uptake of lymph node was positive, noncurative operation was predicted with a sensitivity of 35.2%, a specificity of 91.0%, an accuracy of 76.7% and a positive predictive value of 57.1% These ... other SUV cutoffs for primary tumors or even with conventional enhanced CT scanning (sensitivity of 17.6%, specificity of 87.9%, accuracy of 69.9% and a positive predictive value of 33.3%) (Table...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 03:22

... allowing breaking up of the large haplotype block and thus allowing inference of the relative effects of each SNP The task of demonstrating the basis for causality, even of haplotypes, is not ... regulation of expression of IL28B Additional material Additional file 1: Tables S1 to S5 Table S1: number of reads aligned for each comparison Table S2: results of the allelic test for 18 individually ... Alignment/Map format and SAMtools Bioinformatics 2009, 25:2078-2079 Bansal V: A statistical method for the detection of variants from nextgeneration resequencing of DNA pools Bioinformatics 2010,...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 12:21

... number of predictions We show results for each of the five methods, and also when combining (using union) predictions of HuMiTar with each of the competing method, as well as for the union of the ... the number of predictions for real miRs and for the mock miRs would indicate how many of the predictions for real miRs are indeed biologically relevant The ratio of 'real' versus 'mock' predictions ... provide predictions characterized by favorable sensitivity, which comes at a price of an increased number of predictions The HuMiTar's predictions cover majority of the predictions of the best-performing...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 17:20

... Amplification of the variants located upstream of the coding sequence was performed by single colour detection for the H/ L polymorphism and multiplexing by dual colour probes was used for simultaneous ... Definitions for sepsis and organ failure and guidelines for the use of innovative therapies in sepsis The ACCP/SCCM Consensus Conference Committee American College of Chest Physicians/Society of Critical ... using the SPSS 11.0 statistics software (SPSS, Munich, Germany) Results Of the 172 patients included in the study, complete data for analysis were available for 162 Of these, 137 had no septic events...

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Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 23:20

... been used for prediction of ICU mortality and prognosis in septic shock [19,20], clinical decision-making [21], and prediction of plasma drug concentrations [22] Also, the management of infectious ... analysis for the linear SVR and the RBF SVR model was performed using software implemented by the authors based on the libSVM 2.82 [37] software package Analysis for the MLR model was performed ... [42], using a population pharmacokinetic model based on Bayesian forecasting and adapted for individual pharmacokinetic, demographic, and covariate data, resulted in predictions that were too...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 08:20

... and design of the study, acquisition of data, analysis and interpretation of data, and drafting of the manuscript TB contributed to the acquisition of data, the conception and design of the study, ... confirmation of the diagnosis and for an echocardiography study To be eligible for study inclusion, patients had to present with ADHF expressed by acute dyspnea NYHA class III or IV and a BNP level of ... coefficients of variation are 2.9% and 2.3% Cardiac troponin T (cTn) measurement was performed with the use of the Elecsys 2010 system (fourth generation; Roche Diagnostics) with a limit of detection of...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 07:21

... throughout the paper Therefore, one option for reducing the computational burden of 'BayesB' and for avoiding the use of prior distribution for marker effects is to make use of the simpler and faster ... number of phenotypic records (1000 animals in this case), m is the number of marker genotypes Genotypes were scored as for genotype AA, for heterozygote (Aa or aA) and -1 for aa Hence the size of ... from 1000 × 1010 (for 1010 markers) to 1000 × 8080 (for 8080 markers), with each column containing the set of genotypes for a single marker Phenotypic values Phenotypic values for animals were...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 13:21

... COV for (ii) Qc/Qm of all five methods for each of the four pile test categories (except for closed-ended piles in compression where UWA-05 and ICP05 have the same COV for Qc/Qm) (iii) The COV of ... authors, at the request of the American Petroleum Institute (API) piling sub-committee, recently conducted a review of methods for the assessment of the axial capacity of driven offshore piles in siliceous ... continuous  The values of qb0.1 for driven piles are less than q c because the displacement of 0.1D is insufficient to mobilise the ultimate value (of q c )  The findings of Randolph (2003), White...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2015, 10:37

... complicated skin and skin structure infections—developing antimicrobial drugs for treatment 1998 Arbeit RD, et al The safety and efficacy of daptomycin for the treatment of complicated skin and skin- structure ... national survey of approximately 85 million physician office visits for skin and skin structure infections from 1993 to 2005 showed increased number of office visits by older patients than younger ... Practice guidelines for the diagnosis and management of skin and soft-tissue infections Clin Infect Dis 2005;41(10):1373–406 May AK, et al Treatment of Complicaed Skin and Soft Tissue Infections...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 14:20

... number of features to represent various aspects of the syntactic structure of a pair of arguments All features are listed in Table The Path features are designed as a sequential collection of phrase ... (i.e conjunction features) For example, if the category of the first argument is NP and the category of the second is S, then the conjunction of category feature is NP-S Prediction Method Assigning ... identification of thematic rank can be formulated as a classification problem De- Re-ranking Models for SRC Toutanova et al (2008) empirically showed that global information is important for SRL and...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 02:20

... than a certain number of times Using ambiguity classes instead of unique values of morphological categories for evaluating the (context part of the) features has the advantage of giving us the possibility ... into one morpheme (suffix or ending) At the same time, the morphemes display a high degree of ambiguity, even across major POS categories For example, most of the Czech nouns can form singular ... individual categories There are 13 morphological categories currently used for morphological tagging of Czech: part of speech, detailed POS (called "subpart of speech"), gender, number, case, possessor's...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 07:20

... index of morphological complexity, for tests (2) and (3) This indicator is exact for the case of test (2), since the formally marked word is derived from the unmarked one through the addition of ... perform badly Conclusions and Future Work We have presented a quantitative analysis of the performance of measurable linguistic tests for the selection of the semantically unmarked term out of ... count homographs (words identical in form but with different parts of speech, e.g., light as an adjective and light as a verb) as distinct types or map all homographs of the same word form to the...

Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 06:20

... first publication [9], the rates for positive IGRA and TST of ≥ 10 mm are very similar (32.6% versus 33.1% for IGRA and 74.2% versus 72.9% for TST of ≥ 10 mm) The rate of positive IGRA is considerably ... the proportions of positive test results were compared using the chi-square test of trend A binomial test was used for the comparison of active TB rates and TB predicted rates of TST and IGRA ... highest rates of TST+/IGRA- discordant results Page of Fifty-seven HCWs (2.0%) had a history of active TB disease since 2005 and were treated accordingly Of these, 86% had a TST of ≥ 10 mm and...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 00:20

... acquires information from neighboring sensors to solve locally the least-squares problem This broadcast, unfortunately, leads to high energy consumption We take advantage of the pros of some of the ... performance Note also that regularization is usually unnecessary in (21) and (24) for adequate values of ν (Regularization would be implemented in (21) and (24) by using a step-size of the form ... sensors and requires the transmission of a small amount of information only Mean-square prediction error 10−1 0.3 10−2 Evaluation in a postprocessing stage of the distributed learning algorithm,...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 17:20

... scope of this paper.) The simplest model for pw,b thus considers a uniform pdf for the emissivity leading to a uniform distribution of Rb However, this is not w realistic since having microfacets ... Model for Signal Sbl We propose a model for the pdf of Sbl for the three classes of pixels Since the method is similar for these three classes, we only consider a mixed pixel, that is, Sbl Sbl for ... March 2006 C Cox and W Munk, “Measurement of the roughness of the sea surface from photographs of the sun’s glitter,” Journal of the Optical Society of America, vol 44, no 11, pp 838–850, 1954...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 19:20

... 1991 [13, 14] More information regarding the architecture and the performance of ANFIS can be found in the literature [12] In what follows, first, performance of an MD simulation of water diffusion ... technique is then employed for modeling and prediction of this phenomenon Finally, some benefits of the designed ANFIS are detailed Model and MD Simulation To show the diffusion of water molecules in ... as a function of time was recorded This correlation is shown in Fig In the following section, the applicability of the ANFIS approach for modeling and prediction of the flow rate of water molecules...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 20:20