... large inventory of normalized mathematical indexes of abnormality. It is the pattern of these mathematical indexes of abnormality, ob-tained from analysis of multiple cardiac cycles of the resting ... (0.86-0.903).(Figure 2). The coordinates of the curve confirmed that a cut-off score of 4.0 pro-vides the best combination of sensitivity and specific-ity for the prediction of relevant coronary stenosis ... assumptions about the distribution of the data (normal distribution) were not violated. Discussion The overall sensitivity of 91% and specificity of 85% of the MCG device in this meta-analysis...
... completely absent in sediment where high prevalence of bacteria was observed. Thus the negative results may be because of low detection efficiency Journal of Water and Environment Technology, Vol. 7, ... visualized by UV illumination. Evaluation of recovery rate of preparation method for viruses in sediment As a surrogate of RNA viruses, Sabin strain of Poliovirus type 1 was spiked into the sediment ... DISCUSSION Evaluation of recovery rate of preparation method for viruses in sediment Figure 4 shows recovery rates of RNA and DNA viruses. Recovery rate (geometric mean) of Poliovirus (RNA virus)...
... the combination of bands 5, 4 and 1 which is of great efficacy for the aims of our analysis. In Figures 1 and 2 the set of bands 5, 4 and 1 are depicted respectivelyfor the month of May 1994 and ... algorithms for the detectionof waste areas using LANDSAT TMimages.It is worth of noting that the 30 meters spatial resolution of the Landsat-TM sensormakes the process of detecting waste ... and March 1997. The fusion of selected bands defines a three-dimensional feature space whose point coordinates represent the intensity values of eachband; the detectionof clusters in the feature...
... either100 pg of DENV-1-, 1 ng of DENV-2-, 100 pg of DENV-3- or 1 ng of DENV-4-infected C6 ⁄ 36 cells total RNA wasused for cocktail PCR. The primer cocktail was composed of 100 nm each of 1G1P1, ... of a combination of 10 PCR primers to be used in a singlehigh-sensitivity mixed PCR reaction for the detectionof dengue virus. Pri-mer sequences were computed such that their probability of ... characterization of the virus.These results provide a demonstration of the highprojected sensitivity of human-blind dengue primersand the operation of the primer cocktail strategy fordengue virus detection. ...
... the development of varia-tions of the traditional 2D-gel approach,and the applica-tion of these has resulted in the identification of potentialnew biomarkers for early detectionof disease.Differentialin-gel ... urine have proven tobe a rich source of biomarkers for the early detection of cancer.The blood proteome changes constantly as aconsequence of the perfusion of the diseased organadding,subtracting ... Development of a novel proteomicapproach for the detectionof transitional cell carcinoma of the bladder in urine. Am. J. Pathol. 158, 1491–1502(2001).53. Petricoin, E. F. et al. Use of proteomic...
... identified by MRI.The l ack of histopathological correlation or microbiolo-gical tests of the adenopathies is another important lim-itation of the study, and MRI in the phase of expirationmay show ... 11:243http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2334/11/243Page 6 of 7RESEARCH ARTICLE Open Access Detection of Pulmonary tuberculosis: comparingMR imaging with HRCTElisa Busi Rizzi1*, Vincenzo Schinina’1, Massimo Cristofaro1, Delia ... the two techniques in terms of identifying the location and distribution of the lung lesions, though thehigher resolution of MRI did allow for better identification of parenchymal dishomogeneity,...
... theamplification of the 3¢ end of the b-gal gene. The presence of similar amounts of genomic DNA in the reactions wascontrolled by concomitant addition of primers that amplifya 200 bp region of the RNA ... isolation by FACS of living cells expressing lowlevels of antigen.DiscussionThe potential of scFvs for demonstrating the presence of targeted protein antigens in the cytoplasm of mam-malian ... intracellularforms of antigen.To analyze how these scFvs linked to EGFP ord1-EGFP behave in case of low and constant expres-sion of b-gal, we took advantage of the availability of two cell lines,...
... Statistics of the BioScope corpus. The 2nd and 3dcolumns show the total number of cues within the datasets; the4th and 5th columns show the percentage of negated and spec-ulative sentences.70% of ... neighboring identical siblings of type *scope* or * are replaced by a single node of the corresponding type. Figure 3 shows an example of this transformation.(a) The children of nodes JJ/NN/NN arepruned ... children (starting from the root of the subtree) to the rule pattern subtree. Nodes of type *scope* and * match any number of nodes,similar to the semantics of Regex Kleene star (*).5 ResultsAs...
... re-call of 55.1%, a precision of 71.9% and a resultingF-measure of 62.4% for the detectionof the classnonreferential. The overall classification accuracywas 75.1%.The advantage of using ... a mi-nority of all instances of it. Evans (2001) reportsthat his corpus of approx. 370.000 words from theSUSANNE corpus and the BNC contains 3.171examples of it, approx. 29% of which are ... variety of genres. They count2.337 instances of it, 646 of which (28%) are non-referential. Finally, Clemente et al. (2004) reportthat in the GENIA corpus of medical abstracts thepercentage of...
... precision of judgments by the default evidence of DL0 drops in this case, but that of DL1 does not. Therefore, our method is better than the original one even if the number of elements of the ... errors P= R= number number of detected errors of real errors in detected errors number of errors in the tezt 2PR F- P+R (1) 3.2 Use of the identifying strength of the written word The ... advantage that the size of DL1 is smaller. The size of the decision list has no relation to the precision and the recall, but a small decision list has advantages of efficiency of calculation and...
... president of the NationalAcademy 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 outstandingengineers. ... potential of FFDM through theuse of “soft-copy” image analysis (on a computer screen as opposed tofilm), difficulties remain with regard to the limited resolution and bright-ness of the soft-copy ... all womenregardless of when their tumor is found, early detection will be lookedupon as the best hope for reducing the heavy toll of this disease. The early detection of cervical cancer by...
... meansour PACC model has a sensitivity of 100%, a specificity of 67%, a positive predictive value of 86% and a negativepredictive value of 100%.Volatile analysis of the PACC modelBased on the PLS-DA, ... by quantification of water vapour inbreath samples while the soft ionization techniqueallows easy analysis of high moisture samples such asbreath. IMS has the disadvantage of not knowing whatchemical ... presence of P. aeruginosa.We could not identify one single VOC that was repre-sentative for the presence of P. aeruginosa presence.In our study, the presence and absence of a library of 61 VOCs...
... mouthrinse in the detectionof oralcancer and precancer. J Oral Pathol Med 1996;25(3):97–103.53. Onofre MA, Sposto MR, Navarro CM. Reliability of toluidine blueapplication in the detectionof oral epithelial ... potential areas of loss of autofluorescence that might be indicative of cyto-logic and/or molecular changes indicative of premalignan-cy. Nineteen of 20 tumors demonstrated loss of autofluorescence ... conventionaloral soft tissue examination for the detectionof dysplasia: apilot study. Quintessence Int 2004;35(5):378–84.58. Ram S, Siar CH. Chemiluminescence as a diagnostic aid in the detection of oral...
... statistical software(SPSS Inc, Chicago, IL, USA).ResultsFigure 1 summarizes the results of our TB detection pro-gram from the time of patient admission to initiation of treatment under our cough-officer-screening ... Acutecough is a complication of many diseases [20], so ourFigure 1 Flow chart summary of TB detection by cough officer screening (COS) from the time of admission to the time of treatment. Stage I: ... 10:238http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2458/10/238Page 4 of 7DiscussionThe results of this study of our COS program indicatethat the delay of the healthcare system in responding toTB depends on the population of patients who are...
... percentage of contaminated cultures; review questionB: the name and manufacturer of the reference standard.• Details of index test: software version of test.• Details of comparator: type of microscopy: ... refrigerated >48hours of collection9 - Unk/NRIf frozen, specify: 1 - Tested after frozen < 1 year of storage2 - Tested frozen ≥ 1 year of storage9 - Unk/NRVersion of software for test interpretation ... A (detection of MTB) and/or B (detec-tion of RIF resistance)?1 - A2 - B3 - A and BWhat was the purpose of this study? * if smear results are stratified,indicate #31 - Only accuracy of Xpert...