checklists for assessing studies on diagnostic test accuracy

Some studies on a probabilistic framework for finding object-oriented information in unstructured data

Ngày tải lên : 23/11/2012, 15:04

... are Information Extraction Systems and Text Information Retrieval Systems Each solution based on its approach with different advantages, however, they also have some shortcomings Information Extraction ... initial success on Vietnamese language However, Google search engine is still main one of searching for information on the web in Vietnam Therefore, some companies only focus on specific domain ... boosting algorithm for information retrieval In SIGIR ’07: Proceedings of the 30th annual international ACMSIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval [13] Kim Cuong Pham Object...

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Changes of temperature data for energy studies over time and their impact on energy consumption and CO2 emissions. The case of Athens and Thessaloniki – Greece

Ngày tải lên : 05/09/2013, 16:10

... data change on the energy consumption for heating and cooling and on CO2 emissions In order to reach conclusions regarding the effect of temperature data changes on the energy consumption of buildings, ... (warm conditions), ºC - The daily temperature range for hottest month, ºC (defined as mean of the difference between daily maximum and daily minimum dry-bulb temperatures for hottest month) ISSN ... slopes for Athens are steeper than those for Thessaloniki, an observation confirming this conclusion, since Athens is located southern and evidently the temperatures observed are higher This conclusion...

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Systematic reviews of test accuracy studies in reproductive health docx

Ngày tải lên : 05/03/2014, 17:20

... data ASSESSING QUALITY OF SELECTED STUDIES Test accuracy studies consist of non-randomised observational studies of defined populations in which the results of the test of interest are compared with ... population Selection bias is less likely to be operative with the use consecutive or random sampling The researchers of primary studies on test accuracy should provide sufficient information on the ... Selected studies evaluating test accuracy must provide data on comparison of the test with the gold standard in sufficient detail to allow generation of 2x2 tables for computation of possible accuracy...

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Case Studies on the Effectiveness of State Financial Incentives for Renewable Energy pdf

Ngày tải lên : 06/03/2014, 19:20

... production tax-credit legislation for large-scale systems of at least 50 MW and 20 MW, respectively Oregon also has a performance-based component in its residential tax-credit program Variations among ... quality-control provisions, requiring preapproved systems and installers in addition to post-installation monitoring This intensive component is part of the overall program mission to monitor system ... the state’s environment The credit is allowed for tax years beginning on or after January 1, 1998 Included in the legislation is a provision for the net metering and interconnection of the photovoltaic...

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STUDIES ON CATTLE MILK AND MEAT PRODUCTION IN FOGERA WOREDA: PRODUCTION SYSTEMS, CONSTRAINTS AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR DEVELOPMENT doc

Ngày tải lên : 08/03/2014, 23:20

... basis of per capita consumption in Sub-Saharan Africa, is estimated at 500 million kg Based on this calculation, there will be a minimum annual demand for one billion 14 million kg of milk to satisfy ... namely focus group discussion, data collection by developing formats, persosnel observations and administration of semi-structured questionnaires on milk and meat production practices were employed ... Appendix 9: correlation between milk consumption versus cropland 136 Appendix 10: Regression table for milk yield 136-137 Appendix 11: ANOVA for beef production ...

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REPORT ON STUDIES ON BENCHMARKING /INPUT NORMS FOR PULP AND PAPER INDUSTRY SUBMITTED TO CESS GRANTS AUTHORITY pot

Ngày tải lên : 18/03/2014, 02:20

... required for low consistency operation Water is now considered as one of the valuable resource, and mills are forced to reduce their water consumption levels Charter on corporate responsibility ... required for treatment of effluent 3) Less storage areas, energy for pumping etc., Besides environmental effect, reduced energy consumption is associated with reduction in water consumption Energy consumption ... Dissemination of information on industry:- Basic Input Benchmark / Norm Report Preparation:- Preparation of Standard Testing Procedures as a manual for industry will also be taken up The uniform testing...

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studies on tin oxide-intercalated polyaniline nanocomposite for ammonia gas

Ngày tải lên : 20/03/2014, 13:08

... to the formation of a new aggregate [35] In Fig 5, a simple schematic is shown, which provides reaction mechanism for formation of such kind of structures In the present case, formation of polymer ... aggregation These mechanisms depend on the dispersion of colloidal particles at lowsolid volume fractions (ϕ0 → 0) having with (a) diffusion-limited cluster aggregation (DLCA), and (b) reaction-limited ... aggregation (RLCA) In DLCA every collision between two clusters results in the formation of a new cluster, the aggregate of the two colliding clusters In RLCA only a small fraction of all the collisions...

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Báo cáo khoa học: Hematopoietic differentiation from human ESCs as a model for developmental studies and future clinical translations Invited review following the FEBS Anniversary Prize received on 5 July 2009 at the 34th FEBS Congress in Prague docx

Ngày tải lên : 22/03/2014, 17:20

... differentiation stages for efﬁcient differentiation Onset of CD34 expression using this protocol was detected at day 6, concurrent with expression of the RUNX1 transcription factor CD34 expression peaked ... expression of SCL, GATA-1 and RUNX1 from day 3, consistent with up-regulation of CD34 expression, detectable from day of differentiation The ﬁrst hematopoietic colony-forming cells colonies arose ... secondary opportunistic infection [15] Therefore, cell-replacement therapy based on reconstitution of the leukocytic hematopoietic compartment using a CD34+ hESC-derived starting population has...

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báo cáo hóa học:" Comparative assessment of three different indices of multimorbidity for studies on health-related quality of life" pptx

Ngày tải lên : 20/06/2014, 15:20

... Component Summary produced a substantial loss of information in the context of our study authors gave their final approval of the version of the manuscript submitted for publication Conclusion ... severe Presence (yes) or absence (no) of diagnoses Conditions from to 10, weight = Conditions from 11 to 16, weight = Condition 17, weight = Conditions 18 and 19, weight = Final score Sum of weights ... those of the FCI for the SF-36 scales of Physical Functioning, Role Physical and Social Functioning as well as for the Physical Component Summary; whereas the Charlson correlation coefficients...

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Báo cáo hóa học: " Studies on Preparation of Photosensitizer Loaded Magnetic Silica Nanoparticles and Their Anti-Tumor Effects for Targeting Photodynamic Therap" ppt

Ngày tải lên : 22/06/2014, 01:20

... the Si–O vibration absorption peak of the 1044 cm-1 shifted to 1079 cm-1, which might be contributed to the integration of Si–O vibration absorption and C–O/C–N vibration absorption peak The above ... the formation of the emulsion is the key aspect Emulsions can be classiﬁed in macroemulsions, microemulsions and miniemulsions (or nanoemulsions) The o/w microemulsion method is easy to scale ... to form the nanocarriers Preparation of PHPP-SMNPs Characterization of PHPP-SMNPs Considering the size of the emulsion droplet is directly related to the ﬁnal nanoparticle size, the formation...

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báo cáo khoa học: "Studies on dairy production of milking ewes I. - Estimates of genetic parameters for total milk composition and yield " pptx

Ngày tải lên : 09/08/2014, 22:22

... expected for secondary / traits : + 0.30 g/l for fat content, + 0.10 g/I for protein content, + 0.003 for F %/ P % rion a V Conclusion study was the first on- farm estimation of genetic parameters for ... difference could be due to the lack of selection on milk concentration in dairy ewes, while a selection on fat content has been applied on dairy cows for a long time It may also be explained by a difference ... choice On the one hand, the low level of milk production with a high concentration necessitated the fast development of a selection scheme On the other hand, recording the milk concentration on the...

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báo cáo khoa học: " Assessing organisational readiness for change: use of diagnostic analysis prior to the implementation of a multidisciplinary assessment for acute stroke care" doc

Ngày tải lên : 11/08/2014, 05:22

... National Clinical Guidelines for Stroke 2nd edition London, Royal College of Physicians; 2004 Anderson N, West M: Managing Innovation and Change : A Critical Guide for Organisations London, Thomson; ... the New NHS London, HMSO; 1998 Iles V, Sutherland K: Managing Change in the NHS Organisational Change A Review for Health Care Managers, Professionals and Researchers London, London School of ... http://www.implementationscience.com/content/2/1/21 Table 2: Diagnostic findings: implications Organisational Factors Barriers Facilitators Implications Communication problems, lack of staff consultation, preparation...

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Báo cáo y học: "Evaluation of a rapid diagnostic test, NanoSign® Influenza A/B Antigen, for detection of the 2009 pandemic influenza A/H1N1 viruses" pptx

Ngày tải lên : 12/08/2014, 01:22

... 42°C for 30 minutes Next, the DNA was amplified by 40 cycles of PCR with three steps: denaturation at 94°C for 20 seconds, annealing at 54°C for 20 seconds, and elongation at 72°C for 30 seconds ... though the kits have a high accuracy for the detection of seasonal influenza viruses [20,21] In addition, the correlation between NanoSign® Influenza A/B test and conventional RT-PCR was approximately ... 73 ± 3.65 ng/mL for the purified viral proteins and 1.13 ± 0.11 HA units for the cultured virus In addition, the correlation between the NanoSign® Influenza A/B test and conventional RT-PCR was...

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Báo cáo y học: "Figuring out what works: a need for more and better studies on the relationship between ICU organization and outcomes" potx

Ngày tải lên : 13/08/2014, 20:21

... barriers to conducting such studies They are diﬃcult to perform, get funded, and get published The impediments to doing randomized controlled studies of organizational change in ICUs are commonly insurmountable ... concept, every aspect of what we and how we it is a candidate for study and change [12]; this list includes the training and organization of intensivists With a virtual absence of information ... failed to adjust for every potentially confounding variable that we can imagine, or because it feels threatening to one’s professional sense of self Lastly, to promote organizational research in...

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Báo cáo sinh học: " Test for positional candidate genes for body composition on pig chromosome 6" pptx

Ngày tải lên : 14/08/2014, 13:21

... identiﬁcation of genomic regions related to quantitative traits using DNA markers (QTL mapping), and the second is the detection of mutations in candidate genes and their association with economic ... evaluation of these two genes as candidates for the fatness variation observed in our experimental population A more accurate estimation of the position and effect of the QTL was performed by ... also described no association of this gene with fatness traits [2] On the contrary the allele Positional candidate genes association study in pigs 475 responsible for a higher fatness level was...

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Studies on machine learning for data analytics in business application

Ngày tải lên : 09/09/2015, 11:28

... inflected form of a verb Lemmatization will determine this based on the contextual Part-of-Speech (POS) information, and thus, it is more appropriate for our classification context Unigrams Extraction ... the features for classification It contains components: (1) the latent features learning aims to learn latent representation; (2) the opinionated features expansion is responsible for building ... Results 87 4.5.3 Estimation Accuracy 89 4.6 LIMITATIONS AND FUTURE DICECTIONS 93 4.7 CONCLUSION 93 CHAPTER CONCLUSION 95 REFERENCE ...

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Theoretical and experimental studies on nonlinear lumped element transmission lines for RF generation

Ngày tải lên : 10/09/2015, 09:26

... B: ONE-SOLITON SOLUTION FOR KDV EQUATION 145 APPENDIX C: SIMPLIFICATION OF LANDAU-LIFSHITZ-GILBERT (LLG) EQUATION FOR USE IN MODELING 147 APPENDIX D: DERIVATION OF NLIL DISPERSION EQUATION ... SIMULATION RESULTS 69 3.3.4 ANALYSIS 3.4 DESIGN CONSIDERATIONS IN LOSSY NLCL 3.3.1 BACKGROUND INFORMATION 3.3 63 75 CONCLUSIONS 76 CHAPTER : NONLINEAR INDUCTIVE LINE (NLIL) 78 4.1 INTRODUCTION ... INTRODUCTION 1.1 BACKGROUND 1.1.1 DESCRIPTION OF NONLINEAR TRANSMISSION LINE (NLTL) 1.1.2 SURVEY ON NLETL RESEARCH 1.1.3 THEORETICAL CONSIDERATIONS 1.2 OBJECTIVES AND CONTRIBUTION 10 1.3...

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Studies on nanostructured metal oxides as prospective anodes for lithium ion batteries

Ngày tải lên : 10/09/2015, 09:27

... results in the formation of a non-uniform, lithium alkyl carbonate passivation film on the anode surface, which is a lithium-ion conductor but an electronic insulator Although Liions can pass through ... will lead to feasible conversion reactions The key to the reversibility of the conversion reaction seems to lie in the formation of metal nanoparticles upon complete reduction Owing to the large ... based on the electrochemically driven in situ formation of metal nanoparticles during the first discharge, which enables the formation and decomposition of Li2O upon subsequent cycling Conversion...

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Theoretical and experimental studies on the promoting effect of boron on cobalt catalyst used for fischer tropsch synthesis

Ngày tải lên : 10/09/2015, 15:51

... dehydrogenation In both studies, promotion with boron reduced deposition of deleterious carbon on both catalysts From here, detailed DFT calculations indicate that boron chemisorption on Co surface ... Electron-electron repulsion energy Egraphene Total energy per carbon atom for the graphene-covered surface Encl [ ρ (r )] E(nc) Non-classical contribution in electron-electron repulsion energy Energy ... FTS conditions on a stepped Co surface (Figure 4.6) 101 Table 4.5 Carbon binding energies and Gibbs free energies of reaction, ∆Gr (500 K, 20 bar), under FTS conditions for carbon adsorption at...

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Studies on metal oxides and cobalt nitride as prospective anodes for lithium ion batteries

Ngày tải lên : 11/09/2015, 10:17

... deterioration of the performance of LIB Also, the phase transformations associated during the cycling are: Hexagonal (H1) Monoclinic (M) - Hexagonal (H2) – Hexagonal (H1-3) – Hexagonal (O1) for x ... reaction mechanism is the ‘conversion’ reaction of the Mo, Co and Zn particles with Li2O to form MoO2, Co3O4 and ZnO reversibly except for Y, Ho, Mn In addition, the reversible formation and ... 250 VI.4.Conclusions 251 References 253 Conclusions and Suggestions for Future Work 256 x Summary Lithium ion batteries (LIBs) are the promising dc- energy source for portable electronic devices...

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