... with automatic and manual feature selection to eliminate the skewed nature of the data obtained, is a good way of building hedge classifier modules with an acceptable performance The analysis of ... classification as a standalone task In experiments we made use of the hedge classification dataset of scientific texts provided by (Medlock and Briscoe, 2007) and used a labeled dataset generated ... are made based on features present at that point, thus maxent classification is quite suitable for our purposes As feature weights are mutually estimated, the maxent classifier is capable of taking...
... Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA 4MIT, Boston, MA, USA 5Institut Guttmann, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain 6Laboratory of Neuromodulation, Spaulding Rehabilitation ... relating to agonist-antagonist muscle pairs A single suprathreshold pulse of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) over the hand area of M1 results in a balance of inhibitory and excitatory processes ... limitation of the present study design was the lack of power to conduct a multi-factorial analysis that includes all the data (i.e., agonist and antagonist muscle data); therefore future studies with a...
... Bulletin of the Belgian Mathematical Society, vol 13, no 4, pp 577–584, 2006 [3] B Yang, “On the norm of an integral operator and applications,” Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications, ... generalizations of Hilbert’s inequality,” Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications, vol 248, no 1, pp 29–40, 2000 [10] B Yang, “An extension of Hardy-Hilbert’s inequality,” Chinese Annals ... Yang, “Generalization ofa Hilbert-type inequality with the best constant factor and its applications,” Journal of Mathematical Research and Exposition, vol 25, no 2, pp 341–346, 2005 [9] B Yang,...
... journal of combinatorics (1997), #R3 Introduction Almost all the familiar concepts of linear algebra, such as dimension and linear independence, are valid without regard to the characteristic of ... problems associated with fundamental concepts of linear algebra; for example, how many subspaces of dimension k are there in the vector space GF(q)n ? The answer is often denoted n q , and we have ... relation of P to two adjacent ranks be regular in the graph theoretic sense.) For example, both the subsets ofa set and the subspaces ofa vector space, ordered by inclusion, are regular A downset...
... dimethylated arginine residues for epitopes assay Assay performance characteristics of the anti-SmD3 peptide (SMP) assay (a) Intra-assay and interassay variability, (b) linearity, and (c) receiver operating ... peptide-based assay (99.8%; data not shown) Further studies are in progress to compare the assay performance of the anti-SMP assay with that of other commercially available anti-Sm immunoassays For ... http://arthritis-research.com/content/7/1/R19 (ANA) profile (Pharmacia Diagnostics; cutoff ratio 1) The latter assay contains the autoantigens U1-68 kDa, U1 -A, U1-C, SmBB', SmD, Ro-52, Ro-60 and La All ELISAs were performed in accordance...
... dysphagia in advanced esophageal cancer [27-30] A phase I/II trial from Canada [29] prospectively treated 22 patients with dysphagia from advanced incurable esophageal cancer with palliative ... 9:218 Kim MM, Rana V, Janjan NA, Das P, Phan AT, Delclos ME, Mansfield PF, Ajani JA, Crane CH, Krishnan S: Clinical benefit of palliative radiation therapy in advanced gastric cancer ActaOncol 2008, ... on univariate analysis in all cases CCRT was a marginally significant factor (p = 0.0644) on univariate analysis in all cases (b) In patients with pain, higher BED and CCRT was associated with...
... judiciary, and a general system of checks and balances, to protect public liberty against corruption and to safeguard the equal individual rights of all citizens against each other and against the state ... in Asia and Africa, but the theoretical coherence and republican nature of most such political and legal advances go unremarked and unexamined Many people not know what republicanism is (even as ... Constitution and Purposes of Law in aFreeState M.N.S Sellers Regents Professor of the University System of Maryland and Director of the Center for International and Comparative Law School of Law University...
... of the grammar An examples is: S ~ al S S~al S-+anS S-+anAn A~ -+ a~ X A1 -+ a2 Az A1 ~ an A1 A2 -+al A2 A2 -+ a2 X A2 ~ an A2 An -~ al An X-+e S + al S al A1 An -+ a2 A, ~ An ~ an X Here ... final automaton has n states (It records, in effect, one of three possibilities for each terminal symbol: whether it has not yet appeared, has appeared and must appear again, or has appeared and ... Wright's algorithm that certain rightlinear grammars give an intermediate automaton of exponential size, and it was possible to calculate a useful approximation fairly rapidly in the case of the...
... of RA and manage pain a) Onset and management of RA The nature and disease duration varied greatly between participants The disease duration was – 10 years in 43%, – years in 23%, 11 – 25 years ... on a typical day, costs associated with having arthritis and income sources available, social relations and social involvement and feelings about quality of life and satisfaction The participants ... sample of 60 women, fulfilling the 1987 American College of Rheumatology classification criteria for RA [12], and attending the Arthritis Clinic at Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital, and living...
... *denominator of 15 interview participants only **13 identified themselves as African/African Caribbean/Black African/Black; Jewish; West Indian; Latin; Italian Canadian; Irish Canadian; French Italian; ... were audio taped and field notes taken throughout for later verbatim transcription and analysis Data management was facilitated using N6 computer software All participants completed a demographic ... independent assignment of meaning units and categories with three transcripts by three authors and a colleague with expertise in qualitative research Interim data and analytical interpretations were...
... necrosis factor-related apoptosis-inducing ligand is associated with favourable ovarian cancer survival Clin Cancer Res 2003, 9:762-766 Kayagaki N, Yamaguchi N, Nakayama M, Takeda K, Akiba H, Tsutsui ... Gaudette DC, Boynton JD, Frankel A, Fang XJ, Sharma A, Hurteau J, Casey G, Goodbody A, Mellors A, Holub BJ, Mills GB: Characterization of an ovarian cancer activating factor in ascites of ovarian ... Furthermore, proteomic analysis of ovarian cancer ascites demonstrated that malignant cells from ascites have higher levels of activated Akt and discriminated malignant ascites and poor survival outcomes...
... reliable and valid instruments Cronbach alpha was above 0.70 for the six domains and the overall QoL and general health facet Each domain was significantly correlated with the overall QoL and ... Microsoft Access Statistical analysis was performed with R 2.4.0, a language and environment software for statistical computing and graphics We used proportions or means with standard deviation ... Revicki DA, Nabulsi A, Sarocco PW, Jiang P, the Advanced HIV Disease Ritonavir Study Group: A randomized trial of the effect of ritonavir in maintaining quality of life in advanced HIV disease AIDS...
... 2000 National Department of Health: Operational Plan for Comprehensive HIV and AIDS Care, Management and Treatment for South Africa Pretoria; National Department of Health; 2003 Haacker M: Financing ... ARVs and associated costs and total costs Year New cases starting ARVsa Total cases on ARVsa Total ARV diagnostic costs (ZAR million)b Total ARV drug costs (ZAR million)c Total plan costs (ZAR ... toward implementing the comprehensive plan was damaged by the attitude towards HIV/AIDS and its treatment by Minister Tshabalala-Msimang and President Mbeki Tshabalala-Msimang's administration as...
... validity and quality and internal consistency The Cronbach alpha was calculated as 0.89 Data collection The questionnaire was administered to the sampled caregivers by trained research assistants ... the paper Author Details 1Department of Statistics, University of Botswana, 4775 Notwane Road, Gaborone, Botswana and 2Department of Nursing Education, University of Botswana, 4775 Notwane Road, ... Programmatic Implications ofa Cost Study of HomeBased Care Program in South Africa Horizons Research Update, Johannesburg; Population Council; 2005 30 Phaladze NA: The impact of Care giving on Caregivers:...
... local health centre as their primary source of medical assistance, participants also described a shortage of staff within the centre and an occasional shortage of medications According to one participant ... HIV/AIDS care in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa: an interview with Dr Leana Uys Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care 2001, 12:52-67 35 Uys LR: Aspects of the care of people with HIV/AIDS ... this manuscript Acknowledgements The authors are grateful to the South African team: Mathabo Hendricks, Felicia Manjiya, Nonceba Mnyute, Feziwe Rasmeni, and Lulama Zonke and to the Canadian team:...
... investigation Acknowledgements This study was carried out with the financial support obtained from HIV/ AIDS Prevention and Control Secretariat Office of Amhara National Regional State Our appreciation ... AC, Kalish LA, Assmann SF, Para MF, Flanigan TP, Kumar PN, Mintz L, Wallach FR, Nemo GJ, Viral Activation Transfusion Study Investigators: Highly active antiretroviral therapy decreases mortality ... Catz S, Heckman T, Kochman A: Adherence to HAART therapy among older adults livingwith HIV disease 4th International Conference on the Biophysical Aspects of HIV Infection, Canada Ottawa 1999, Poster...
... infection, anti-retroviral therapy and cardiovascular disease The Canadian HIV Vascular Study was approved by the Hamilton Health Sciences/McMaster University Faculty of Health Sciences Research Ethics ... measure may enable timely collection of quality of life data in broader areas of research than in the past while reducing the redundancy and questionnaire burden placed on participants Confirmatory ... Hamilton, Ontario, Canada 2Department of Pathology and Molecular Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada 3Department of Clinical Epidemiology & Biostatistics,...
... traditional societies, altered states of consciousness (which would be deemed as manifestations of 'disease' states in psychiatric parlance) are attributed to astateof possession in which a person's ... history ofa recent change in personality and impairment of sensory perception The patient complained of abnormal auditory experiences when alone He also complained that the appearance of his father ... Journal of Medical Case Reports 2009, 3:9325 ogy, as exemplified by both the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders and the International Classification of Diseases [3] In traditional...
... compare traditional medicine with conventional medical care They found that WHOQOL is an appropriate measure of quality of life in people livingwith AIDS, and that traditional medicine has a role ... No ART II No ART II ART III No ART III ART IV No ART IV ART IV ART (failure) Disease stage and treatment status Figure Average visual analogue scale (VAS) scores and EQ-5D weights (UK and Zimbabwe ... Checklist-25 amongst HIV-positive pregnant women in Tanzania Acta Psychiatr Scand 2002, 106(1):9-19 21 Nuwagaba-Biribonwoha H, et al.: The impact of HIV on maternal quality of life in Uganda AIDS Care...