... precision values above50% forthe first 10% of the list, but is outper-formed by the t-test afterwards. Looking at the first 40% of the data, there is a big gap between the good measures (t-test, ... stated at the be-ginning of this section, the performance ofand relative to the other AMs is not better for high-frequency data than for low-frequency data.Instead, the poor performance observed ... suitable for a qualitativeevaluation of lexi-cal association measures, mainly forthe follow-ing reasons: the instability of precision values ob-tained from the first few percent of the data in the SLs;...
... pertinent informa-tion). The Work Group, with the assistance of the ERT, made the final decision forthe inclusion or exclusion of all articles.These articles were either reviewed in a narrative form ... RCTs. The grade forthe quality of evidence for each intervention/outcome pair was then decreased if there were seriouslimitations to the methodological quality of the aggregateof studies; if there ... persons in the community. The prevalence of low BMD is influenced by the age of the cohort, the number of men, the proportion ofnon-Caucasians, the average duration of dialysis, and the skeletal...
... in the statements; read the text and numbering the sentences or the paragraphs; read the text and find the similar words in the reading text; read the text and find the best title forthe ... designers. Therefore, they can provide the most valid information in theevaluation process. Also, their understanding of cultural and political factors of the institution in which theevaluation ... (1987) there are four main criteria for materials evaluation any evaluator should concern: the audience, the aims, the content, and the methodology.133. Significance of the thesis The findings...
... nolLaryngolSupp2004May;193:3‐5.10.KoyA,CoonsSJ.Self‐reportedchronicconditionsandEQ‐5Dindexscoresin the USadultpopulation.CurrMedResOpin2006Oct;22(10):2065‐71.11.RayNF,BaraniukJN,ThamerM,RinehartCS,GergenPJ,KalinerM,JosephsS,PungYH.Healthcareexpenditures for sinusitisin1996:ContributionsofAsthma,RhinitisandotherAirwayDisorders.JAllergyClinImmunol1999Mar;103(3Pt1):408‐14.12.FacerGW,KernEB.Sinusitis:currentconceptsandmanagement.In:BaileyBJ,editor.HeadandNeckSurgery–Otolaryngology.Philadelphia,PA:JBLippincott,1993.13.ReulerJB,LucasLM,KumarKL.Sinusitis.Areview for generalists.WestJMed1995;163:40–48.14.StammbergerH.FunctionalEndoscopicSinusSurgery.Philadelphia,PA:BCDecker,1991.36LABORATORYEXAMINATIONSeverallaboratorytestsmaybeconsideredin the workupofpatientswithrefractorychronicorrecurrentacutesinusitis.Theseincludecompletebloodcount(CBC)withdifferential,andserumimmunoglobulintests,.Also,sweatchloridetestingmaybeperformedtoruleoutcysticfibrosis,especiallyinchildrenwithnasalpolypsorchronicorrecurrentsinusitis.RADIOLOGYWhenanX‐raymustbedone, the imagingprocedureofchoiceis the computerizedtomography(CT)scan,whichisrecommendedprimarilyinevaluating the extentandseverityofdiseaseinchronicsinusitisandincomplicatedsinusitis(Fıgs.5–6).SinusCTscansandMRIscanshavealloweddoctorstodirectlyvisualize the pathologywithin the sinusesanddepictnormalandabnormalanatomy.Thesetoolsareanimmenseimprovementoverplainfilmsinusdepictionandcangivereliablereproducibleinformation.(14‐24) The CTscanisnow the goldstandardandhasreplacedplainX‐raysas the imagingstudyofchoiceinchronicsinusitis.CTscans,especially the coronalimages,areusefulinimaging the underlyingsinusanatomyindetail. The combinationofnasalendoscopyandCTscansin theevaluation ofchronicsinusdiseaseallows for precisediagnosisandtreatment.CTscanisaninvaluabletoolin theevaluation of the sinuses.Oneof the primarystrengthsofsinusCTimagingisimprovedcontrastresolution:thatistosay, the abilitytodepictbone/airandbone/softtissueinterfaces.AnotherprimarystrengthofCTscansisimprovedspatialresolution:thatis, the abilitytodepictverysmallstructures. The surgeonand the radiologist,workingtogether,hopetoobtainnumerousspecificpiecesofinformationfromCTscansofpatientswithsinusdisease.Thisinformationincludes the statusof the bonywalls, the natureofmaterialwithin the sinuses,and the statusof the adjacentnormalstructuressuchas the eye,brain,andmidface. The statusof the bonywallsof the sinusesisimportantbothinbenignsinusdiseaseandalsoinsinustumors.Ittakesnewer‐generationscannersonlyminutestoprovidehigh‐resolutionimagesoftissueslabsthatare26fewdayspriortotravel.Medicalcareshouldbeavailableat the patient’sdestinationincasesinusitisor ... apatientallergictodustmitesbreathesin“dustmiteparticles,”theyarerecognizedbyspecificallergyreceptorsin the nose.When the specific“dustmitereceptors”recognize the “intrusion”ofdustmiteparticles,theycause the releaseofsubstancesthataremeanttofight the presenceoftheseparticles.Theseinclude the releaseofhistamineandothersubstancesthatcreateaninflammatoryresponse.Theseresponsesweredesignedasadefenseagainst the “foreignintruder” for instance, the dustmiteparticles.However,thisallergyresponsehas the unfortunate40 the infection,evenwhenitislow‐grade,may,overtime,resultinasignificantimprovementin the symptomsofhyper‐reactivity.Whilemanythinkthatsinusitismeansinfection,infectionisonlyoneofmanycausesofinflammationof the sinuses.Signsofinfectionincludefever,greenandfoul‐smellingnasaldrainage,andfacialpain.Causativefactorsinsinusitiscanbeconsideredbyca ... The maxillary(cheek)sinusesarelocatedjustabove the teeth.Infact, the roofof the mouth,in the locationof the dentalroots)is the floorof the maxillarysinuses.Whileitisnotuncommon for dentalproblemstoleadtoinfectionof the maxillary(cheek)sinuses,aninfectedmaxillarysinusmayalsoleadtodentalpain.Once the maxillarysinusesareaffected,infectioncanspreadtoadjacentsinuses.(7,12‐16)RUNNYNOSE,NASALDISCHARGE...
... objective for choosing the best strategic planning of COE in the future. The second level is the primary factors as a group of criteria in which the factors (LV1, LV2, …LV9) are influent to the formulation ... factors of VNU. The second level is the primary factors as a group of criteria in which the factors (LV1, LV2, …LV9) are influent to the formulation of the sub criteria. In this level, the subcriteria ... national standards for quality assurance. The representative of ISO forthe USA is the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) and the ISO 9000 series is administered by the American Society...
... of cancer. The strengths of the study includeits multicenter nature, enhancing generalizability of the re-sults and the large sample size. Another positive feature is the fact that the brush ... (the brush biopsiesat OralScan Laboratories, the scalpel biopsies at the partic-ipating sites) who were blinded to each other’s results. The major weakness of the study, however, is that the gold ... value.Therefore, the lack of apparent control as well as documen-tation with respect to the manner in which the sample wasselected limits the utility of this study.Poate et al. performed...
... respect to the overall transport policy of the country. The country reports feed into the joint programming effort with the Member States forthe next period, as will be detailed in the National ... destinations with the same travel speed ("as the crow flies") as the people in the central regions. In addition, the indicator recognises the utilitarian principle of the happiness of the greatest ... distribution of the Accessibility Problem Index in Latvia first for road and then for rail from a national and a European perspective forthe current situation (2006). The colour scale of the maps...
... respect to the overall transport policy of the country. The country reports feed into the joint programming effort with the Member States forthe next period, as will be detailed in the National ... Index (API), which forms a central role in the approach, is explained. The higher the value of the index, the higher the need for intervention. This approach has been labelled as the “red flag” ... assistance. 1.2 The Strategic Evaluation The strategic evaluation is directed the transport sector. Three specific objectives have been formulated for this strategic evaluation: • To provide...
... describes the work and transmits the final report of the Committee on Proposal Evaluation for Allocation of Supercomputing Time forthe Study of Molecular Dynamics, Second Round. The committee ... [Returning user, identified for 100,000 node-hours] The time allocations forthe 44 proposals identified by the committee as meeting or exceeding the selection criteria for time allocations total ... experts to evaluate the proposals submitted in response to the aforementioned RFP. The committee of 17 was chaired by Dr. Robert L. Jernigan, Director of the Baker Center for Bioinformatics and Biological...
... that the summary is useless. The issue is, therefore, how to find informativemetrics, and then how to combine them into an op-timal single quality estimation for automatic sum-maries. The most ... that breaks the universal quantifier conditionover x.We have to look, then, for an alternative for- mulation for K. The best K should minimiseQUEEN(a), but having the quality of the modelsas ... it is closer to the model summaries ac-cording to all metrics. We can formalise this ideaby introducing a universal quantifier on the vari-able x in the QUEEN formula. In other words,QUEENX,M(a)...
... identified by their amino acid sequences. The relative population of the peptide fractions from the irradiated samples were compared to the correspondingones obtained with the native lysozyme. The proportions ... for peptidesand proteins. The rate constants differ by a factor of % 8with the protein (Table 1). For all proteins the LRET is not stoichiometric. Inaddition the TyrOÆyield varies with the ... amino acidother than tyrosine. For example, one could suggest that the disulfide bond could be the electron donor to the indolyltryptophan radical. However, the reduction potential of the couples...
... AltaVista for the 10 top frequency words from the BNC.He then conducted a qualitative analysis of fre-quent n-grams in the Web corpus and in the BNC,highlighting the differences between the two ... and compute the variance from there ratherthan with bootstrap methods. However this sec-ond methodology produces noisier results. The reason for this is that our hypothesis rests on the assumption ... before forthe BNC data, wesmoothed the word counts by adding a count of 1to all words in the overall dictionary. This dictio-nary is approximated with the set of all words oc-curring in the...
... reliablyrecover the true weights. The relevant test is whether for all possibleSTSGs and in the limit of infinite data, the ex-pected relative frequencies of trees given the es-timated grammar, equal the ... com-binations of the frequencies f1. . . f4. Observa-tions of these frequencies therefore do not addany extra information, and the problem of fi nd-ing the weights of the target grammar ... that all current estimation methods are inconsistent in the “weight-distributiontest”, and argue that these results force usto rethink both themethods proposed and the criteria used.1 IntroductionStochastic...