skin surface lipids for prediction of skin irritation

... 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

... 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 ... usage of PET-CT in gastric cancer, we focused on the prediction of surgical finding through the result of preoperative PET-CT The results of our study suggested that treatment strategy of gastric ... semi-quantitative feature of FDG-PET/CT, the degree of FDG uptake of the primary tumor and the SUV was analyzed for prediction of curability The mean SUV of the primary tumor in patients who underwent...

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 ... 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 ... causing some spillage of bacteria The group was thus homogenous for the surgeryassociated risk of infection An important issue in the design of our study was the distinction of patients who suffered...

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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 ... remaining 7% had a maximum of (of 35) values missing This resulted in a total of 147/15,995 (0.92%) missing values This extremely low number of missing values was filled in by means of an expectation...

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, ... 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 ... detection of 0.01 μg/L, a 99th percentile cutoff point of less than 0.01 μg/L, and a coefficient of variation of less than 10% at 0.035 μg/L Determination of creatinine levels was carried out with...

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 ... with PCR Figures and show the correlation of TBV with EBV and the regression of TBV on EBV as a function of the number of principal components for PCR For the three lowest marker densities, 1Ne/M,...

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 ... PERFORMANCE OF UWA-05 The UWA database of static loads tests, as discussed in Lehane et al (2005a & b), was employed to assess the predictive performance of the proposed UWA-05 method The predictions...

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 ... 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 ... prevalence of MRSA as a cause of ABSSSI has made vancomycin become the empiric IV Healthy Aging & Clinical Care in the Elderly 2012:4 Daptomycin for treatment of cSSSI antibiotic of choice for many...

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 ... features of the two individual arguments as new features (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 ... Sl locally scores an argument; formance of the local sematic role classifier The r∗ : A × A → R is to predict hierarchy of two second to the forth rows show the performance arguments; r : S × S...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 02:20

... degree of ambiguity, even across major POS categories For example, most of the Czech nouns can form singular and plural forms in all seven cases, most adjectives can (at least potentially) form ... set of all possible tags for the input word form, the disambiguated lemma, and the set of all possible lemmas with links to their possible tags Out of these, we are currently interested in the form, ... 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...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 07:20

... different surface forms are given, if they have the same lexical form, then the probabilities will be the same For example, a lexical form mong-go/nc+leul/jc2 , can be mapped from two surface forms ... Figure 1: Morpheme structure of the sentence na-neun hag-gyo-e gan-da (I go to school) calculation of the probability A lexical form of a word can be mapped to more than one surface word In this case, ... morphological analysis model in detail, we should note that surface forms are considered here The transition model is a form of point-wise mutual information ẩệ ẩ ệ ẵ ệ ẩ ệ ẵ àẩ ệ ẩ ẵ è ẵ è (16) ẩ...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 19:20

... have presented a quantitative analysis of the performance of measurable linguistic tests for the selection of the semantically unmarked term out of a pair of antonymous adjectives The analysis ... 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 ... task of modeling semantic markedness in terms of them, we combined several of them, keeping 14 variables for the statistical analysis Data Collection In order to measure the performance of the...

Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 06:20

... http://www.jneuroengrehab.com/content/8/1/56 Page of 12 Half of the summation of PCSA values for non-primary flexors was added to each of the two primary flexors while a third of the summation of PCSA values for nonprimary extensors ... witnessed for forces of up to 30% of the maximum isometric force [33] These nonlinear relationships can be associated with exponential increases in firing rate of motor units as muscle forces increase ... estimation of thumb-tip forces under four different configurations In another study, performance of a Hillbased physiological muscle model was compared to a neural network for estimation of forearm...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 08:20

... 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 ... achieves an approximation ratio of the p optimum equal to H(p) = k=1 1/k, where p is the size of the largest set of the cover To illustrate the effectiveness of this approach for sensor selection, and...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 17:20