... clinic forthe final assessment with respect to the purpose of the study Ethics Committee approval was obtained Flexion-extension arc of the elbow and pronation-supination arc of the forearm ... proved adequate forthe eradication of the infection while in the other elbows wound irrigation and surgical debridement were performed http://www.josr-online.com/content/3/1/9 The anterior ulnar ... in order to improve the biomechanical properties of the technique [20] Rowland and Burkhart [21] gave an emphasis on the mathematical need to put the transverse hole forthe figure-of-eight tension...
... be the set of pairs in thegoldstandard such that the people involved in the pair in T communicate with each other These are precisely the dominance relations in thegoldstandard which can be ... richer network forthe core group, degree centrality is a better predictor for this group than forthe non-core group We also note that the prediction accuracy is by far the highest forthe inter ... calculate the degree centrality of every node in the email exchange network, and then rank the nodes by their degree centrality Recall that the degree centrality is the proportion of nodes in the network...
... proxy for a goldstandard test; this approach should provide unbiased estimates of test characteristics for, as stated by Pepe, "the definition of disease is not dependent on the results of the ... evaluate the test performance for real-time reverse-transcriptase (RT2-) PCR, EM, and EIA for norovirus using both LCM and CRS; and (ii) to evaluate the implications of these characteristics for outbreak ... In summary, the absence of a traditional "gold standard" forthe evaluation of test characteristics in the identification of NVG outbreaks does not preclude rational evaluation of the test characteristics...
... Set for Clustering The data used forthe creation of thegoldstandard was taken from the Document Understanding Conference (DUC)1 document sets These document clusters were designed forthe ... compared the output of a standard clustering algorithm to thegoldstandard With the bucket cluster method Judge A and Judge H forthe Rushdie sentence set have the best inter-judge agreement At the ... high for their agreement However two bucket clusters from two different sets of clusters will never be exactly the same and therefore the judges will be punished more forthe disagreement on the...
... between the performance of the projector and the characteristics of the screening room to be accomplished For example, the manufacturer gives the luminous flux of the projector and the standards for ... upon the individual system and content being 3.2 Theatre System: the core system forthe D-cinema exhibitor The Theatre System contains the requirements forthe system equipment installed at a theatre ... certain luminance on the screen The bigger the screen is, the more powerful the projector should be The following information is based on the draft standards and recommendations as they are today (April...
... generating the plan The beam arrangement forthe 3D and IMRT plans was the same as those used for treatment However, for consistency, the plans were re-optimized to all conform to the same constraints ... delineating the CTV (and thus the PTV) forearly laryngeal cancer, IMRT maximizes the freedom of the clinician to choose a margin that is most appropriate for them Or put another way, the more confident ... and similar coverage to the two conformal plans, with the tradeoff of increased dose to the carotid artery Furthermore, because no optimization was performed forthe PTV in the 2D clinical plans,...
... manual counting of cough as thegoldstandard [12,13] The advantage of using video for cough detection is the visualisation of the subjects' movements as well as hearing the characteristic sound ... discrepancy between the counts occurred both the recordings were reviewed The differences between the two counts appeared to be due to the differences in the sound quality of the recordings The sound quality ... cough events The two main disadvantages are the lengthy process of reviewing the recorded material and the limited field of vision of the camera, restricting the subjects' activities The aim of...
... demonstrated the contrasting transitions of the ALT-LDH index in theearlystage of acute liver injury between the conservative survivors and the patients with progressive fatal liver failure In the former, ... ROCs using the MELD score or ALT-LDH-index ROCs using the MELD score or ALT-LDH-index The curves from the MELD score forthe first and third hospital days are similar On the other hand, the ALT-LDH ... end stage On the other hand, while the sensitivity and specificity of the ALT-LDH index were rather poor on admission, both were improved dramatically beyond the MELD score at day That is, the...
... factors, the known and the unknown: We know there are fish in the sea, and we know they eat We know there are investors in the world and that they invest What we not know is, ―Will they invest ... are prepared for an Exchange listing Therefore, the best service we can give to a ―Start-up‖ or earlystage client is to enable them you to the first few initial capital raises themselves through ... work for most start-up, early- stage or seasoned smaller companies When it does work forthe very few, there is often too much equity and control given up to make the funding worth it Therefore,...
... within the cell and between cells It is used for transmitting the forward access channel (FACH) for access grant and the paging channel (PCH) for paging, both of which carry control information Information ... the chip rate increased For a chip rate of 0.96 Mcps, the BER performance was close to the computer simulated BER performance with L=1 The performance with 7.68 Mcps spreading became almost the ... CDMA Standardforthe UTRA FDD Air Interface 2.2 Performance Capabilities Some of the technical benefits of W-CDMA which greatly enhance its performance include the following: 2.2.1 Capacity The...
... through gap junction formed between WBC and endothelium and resulted in the formation of atherosclerosis (9) Javid et al also found that in theearlystage of atherosclerosis, the number of Cx43 ... (10mg/kg/d) in the food for eight weeks These animals were given ad libitum access to water Collection of blood vessels At the end of the experiment, rabbits were sacrificed Then the aortas were ... connection Cx43 was up-regulated when the smooth muscle cells changed from contraction type to the conversion type in vitro (8) Cx43 is required forthe formation of the atherosclerotic plaque Previous...
... highlightedtheneed for establishinguniform criteria forthe persons performing these inspections The quality of inspections, of course, depends on the competence of the inspector, andthe Standardfor theQualification ... request, and approved the formation of the ASME Committee on the Qualification of Elevator Inspectors (QEI Committee) to develop anAmericanNational StandardThe goal established for theQEI Committee ... tests to determine whetherallpartsof the installation conform to the requirements ofthe applicable code or regulations whether required and the safety devices function as requiredtherein; (6) making...
... detail information about the telecommunications infrastructure records The information may be all of the information about the record, or it may be selected information The way in which the information ... Administration Standardforthe Telecom Infra of Com Bldgs Other Information Other Linkages Equipment Records PC120 the equipment the cable terminates at (desk top) Other Linked Records Linkages • are the ... Administration Standardforthe Telecom Infra of Com Bldgs LABELING AND COLOR CODING Labels The rules for labeling are tied to ANSI/TIA/EIA 568 B and for that reason the original standards documents...
... alternative titles identified for each article We extract the alternatives from the article and redirect titles, the text of all links to the article, and the first and last word of the article title if ... Australia We therefore exclude from inference titles of form X Y where X is an alias of the same article and Y is lowercase State abbreviations A goldstandard may use stylistic forms which are ... items Therefore, NER corpora must be carefully matched to the target text for reasonable performance We demonstrate three approaches for gauging corpus and annotation mismatch, and apply them...
... that you feed the child human milk that the mother provides each day Or, if the child has formula during the day, it may mean that you will not feed the child right before the mother picks him ... canned foods, use the “First In, First Out” rule Write the purchase date on the new foods and move them to the back of the storage area Move the older foods to the front so that they will be used ... with the child’s name, the date, and the type of food.4.6.0.1 If the food sent from home does not often meet the child’s needs, have other food available forthe child to eat Make sure that the...
... collections and their gold standards which agree mostly to annotators Therefore, we analyze the kappa value not between annotators, but between the annotator and thegoldstandardThe methodologies ... value The inconsistency of annotations brings difficulties in generating thegoldstandard Sentences should first be selected as the testing collection, and then the corresponding goldstandard ... introduced in the next section Testing Collections and Gold Standards Thegoldstandard of relevance, the opinionated issue, and the opinion holder must be generated according to all the annotations...
... according to the manufacturer’s instructions The mixture was incubated at 50 °C for and at 95 °C for 10 min, and then PCR was performed at 95 °C for 15 s and at 60 °C forfor 40 cycles Relative standard ... while the effect of shfad49-1 was milder (Fig 6A) Therefore, we used shfad49-2 to perform the RNAi experiments Next, we determined the expression levels of fad49 by quantitative PCR in the cells ... C ⁄ EBPb (Fig 6E) These results imply that fad49 is crucial in the immediate earlystage of adipocyte differentiation As fad49 appears to play an important role in theearly stages of adipocyte...
... and then disappeared altogether Now, after so much preparation, they started their long journey to the seabed, carefully mapping their path so they could retrace their steps Finally, after nearly ... reaping the benefits of global warming While the big Arctic thaw is bringing the best of times for some of the region’s indigenous population, there are many more for whom it is bringing the worst For ... waters of the northern Atlantic They never returned, and although other sailors caught occasional glimpses of them along the Canadian coast, no trace of either of the two ships or their crew...
... e n t A probability model enforces constraints on the counts in the data The degree to which the counts in the data conform to the constraints is called the fit of the model In this work, model ... between the marginal totals forthe two judges (i.e., ni+ and n+j in Table 1) Bias is measured by testing the fit of the model for marginal homogeneity: ~i+ = P+i for all i The larger the G value, the ... of the data gathered during the second tagging experiment Table shows the changes, from study to study 2, in the Kappa values for pairwise agreement among the judges The best results are clearly...