... thereforeuse features to indicate the sequences of part -of- speech for a pair of candidate paraphrases. Weused the preterminal symbols of the syntactictrees of the parser used for SYNT.Character-based ... 2010).Central to acquiring paraphrases is the need of assessing the quality of the candidate paraphrases produced by a given technique. Most works todate have resorted to human evaluation of para-phrases ... of our validation classifier over the set of all candidate paraphrase pairs. On French, ityields an improvement in F-measure (43.16) of +6.46 over the best individual technique (TERp)and of...
... improved the PPV of our effectiveness algorithm by 6%, but limits generalizability as it excluded one-third of our data. The strengths of our study include evaluation of a large number of patients ... characteristics of the eligible cohort remained similar (right-most column of Table 2). The primary results of the study are shown in Table 3. Among biologic users (Table 3), a total of 28% of treatment ... use of that biologic agent in last 6 months. Eligible participants must have had a baseline VARA visit on the same day or within 1 month of biologic initiation. The date of initiation of the...
... groups of human beings. Multiple environmental risk factors like acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) are believed to be one of the causes of osteoporosis. Recently a high incidence of osteoporosis ... in the course of development of osteoporosis. OPG/RANKL/RANK system is final mediator of bone remodeling. Bone mineral density (BMD) test is of added value to assess the risk of osteoporosis ... Diagnosis of AIDS, Diagnosis of side effects of anti retro-viral therapy. Int. J. Med. Sci. 2004 1(3): 152-164 156 interrelationship is known as coupling and is crucial link in the chain of bone-remodelling...
... Prof. dr.ir. A.Y. Hoekstra University of Twente Prof. dr.ir. H.G. Wind University of Twente Prof. dr.ir. A.E. Mynett UNESCO-IHE / WL | Delft Hydraulics Prof. dr. S.M. de Jong University of ... University of Twente, chairman/secretary Prof. dr. P.G.E.F. Augustinus University of Utrecht, promoter Prof. dr. S.J.M.H. Hulscher University of Twente, promoter Dr. J.L. de Kok University of Twente, ... years of experience, source of knowledge and level of interest of expert i on a certain set of questions, respectively. Their values are in the range between zero and two. The result of Eq....
... president of the National Academy of Sciences. The National Academy of Engineering was established in 1964, under the charter of the National Academy of Sciences, as a parallel organization of outstanding ... development of microarray technologies) have expanded those evaluations to permit the simultaneous detection of the expression of tens of thousands of genes and to support holistic evaluations of the ... subject of this report was approved by the Governing Board of the National Research Council, whose members are drawn from the councils of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of...
... president of the National Academy of Sciences. The National Academy of Engineering was established in 1964, under the charter of the National Academy of Sciences, as a parallel organization of outstanding ... superior achievements of engineers. Dr. Wm. A. Wulf is president of the National Academy of Engineering. The Institute of Medicine was established in 1970 by the National Academy of Sciences to ... Academy of Sciences to secure the services of eminent members of appropriate professions in the examination of policy matters pertaining to the health of the public. The Institute acts under the...
... forcompletion of laboratory validation, or the appropriate time toterminate a laboratory validation process or to revoke an active validation status.1-5CEMPMemorandumNo.200-1-1Department of the ... COMMITTEE:(Page 1 of 2)Figure 2-3 Validation Review Meeting Summary2-20EM 200-1-11 Jul 94APPENDIX AREFERENCEA-1CEMP-RTCECW-EDEPARTMENT OF THE ARMYU.S. Army Corps of EngineersWashington, ... providesguidance, procedures, and criteria for the validation of commercial and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) divisionanalytical chemistry laboratories. Laboratory validation isrequired to ensure that...
... assessment).PrecisionThe precision of an analytical method describes the close-ness of agreement (degree of scatter) between a series of measurements obtained from multiple sampling of thesame homogenous ... re-suspended in 0.5 mL of FACSbuffer. Ten μL of Propidium Iodide (PI) was added beforeacquisition for viable cell gating. Total of 10,000 to20,000 TIL cells (un-gated events) were acquired. For fro-zen ... 7software.ResultsPart 1: Tetramer assay validation SpecificitySpecificity (Selectivity) is the ability of an analyticalmethod to differentiate and quantify the analyte in thepresence of...
... the effect of overnight shipping on inhibition of internalization of AF488-MCP-1 by the receptor antago-nist a direct comparison of the effect of overnight storageon the IC50 of the CCR2 ... addition of AF488-MCP-1 as a control. Anexample of the staining is in Figure 1. For most purposesthe internalization assay was performed within 2 hours of blood draw. However, as part of the validation ... Figure 2a, saturation of binding was achieved at a concentration of 60–70 nM of AF488-MCP-1. Since the internalization assay is to beused as a measure of pharmacodynamic effect of a CCR2antagonist,...
... (bioMerieuxSA, Switzerland). Validation test Validation was performed by direct inoculation of TSBand FTM media with 1% of the total volume of the prod-uct under validation as stated in European ... thegrowth of microorganisms within the growth media usedfor the assay.Aim of this study is the validationof a commercial system(Charles River Endosafe PTS) for the determination of bacterial ... endotoxins), the validationof thesterility testing in compliance with eu Pharmacopoeia2.6.1 (sterility) and the validationof the potency assay inan ATMP that is constituted of bone-marrow...
... thought of as one single concept.Scoring and psychometric validationof the PACT-QThe last series of PCA and MA led to the conclusion thatthe 7 items of the "Treatment Expectations" of ... initial validation and forthe psychometric validation. The good quality of completion and returns of bothPACT-Q1 and PACT-Q2 in all of the countries reflectedthe good acceptability of the questionnaire. ... closer to 1 theRV, the more similar the configuration of the two sets of variables. Validation and assessment of the psychometric properties of the PACT-Q dimensionsValidity is the degree to...
... limitation of this study is the use of a 7-item modified Morisky scale for the validationof TSQM-9. An item from the original Morisky scale related to stop-ping medication because of feeling ... School of Public Health, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1772.BioMed CentralPage 1 of 10(page number not for citation purposes)Health and Quality of Life OutcomesOpen AccessResearch Validation of an ... participation of Christina McCormack of Synovate ViewsCast (Chicago, Illinois) for her role as a Sen-ior Project Manager in the implementation and conduct of this study.Table 4: Known-group Validity of...
... [18].Cultural validationof the English version of the SF-NDICross-cultural adaptation of the English version of the SF-NDI was performed in 10 English-speaking healthy sub-jects of varied age ... Thumboo2,4Address: 1Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 2Department of Rheumatology and Immunology, Singapore ... Singapore, 3Department of Pharmacy, National University of Singapore, Singapore and 4Department of Medicine, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, SingaporeEmail:...
... has a 5-point Likert-type responsescale (0 = none of the time, 1 = a little of the time, 2 =some of the time, 3 = most of the time, 4 = all of the time).The BII yields a total score for all ... a pain score range of 0–28.Further development of the PPSMExploration of the PPSM as a uni-dimensional measure of patient satisfaction may be useful. The current version of the measure includes ... and 29% of the groups respectively [7].The increasing recognition of the importance of patient-reported outcomes (PRO) in recent years has led to thedevelopment of a large number of PRO questionnaires.Within...