... Stutz 1996 Bayesian classification (AutoClass): Theory and results In Fayyad, Piatetsky-Shapiro, Smyth, and Uthurusamy, editors, Advances in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining AAAI Press/MIT ... of manual tagging Natural Language Engineering J Carletta 1996 Assessing agreement on classification tasks: The kappa statistic Computational Linguistics, 22(2):249-254 W Chafe 1986 Evidentiality ... Kappa values, and raises the average agreement among the judges to a Kappa value of over 0.87 for the sentences that can be tagged with certainty Using only simple features, the classifier achieves...
... Canada Methods Setting and study population In May-June 2008, a telephone survey was conducted in a stratified sample of households in all Canadian provinces by a contracted company using random-digit ... doi:10.1186/1477-7525-8-75 Cite this article as: Dubé et al.: Quality of life of children and their caregivers during an AOM episode: developmentanduseofa telephone questionnaire Health and Quality of Life Outcomes ... otitis media: a randomized, controlled trial Pediatrics 2005, 115(2):273-9 Brouwer CNM, et al: Reliability and validity of functional health status and health-related quality of life questionnaires...
... cohort (Table 2) [see Additional data file 2] Derivation and validation of candidemia risk score Univariate analysis revealed that the following variables were associated with candidemia: age younger ... receive early and appropriate antifungal therapy, underscores the anticipated benefit of easy-to -use risk stratification Prior efforts at risk stratification for candidemia as a cause of nosocomial ... be generalizable to a broad range of patients presenting to acute-care hospitals because they are derived from teaching and non-teaching hospitals and from urban and rural hospitals, and are not...
... individuals are asked to undertake conventional TTO valuations for a sample of health states The Measurement and Valuation of Health (MVH) group version of TTO [18] was used to allow comparison ... describe the developmentand validation ofa preference based measure from the CAMPHOR that would yield utility values for patients with PH and allow more accurate economic evaluations of PH treatments ... leaving age with over 40% holding a degree or equivalent professional qualification The health state values ranged from 0.770 to 0.156 and generally had fairly large standard deviations (ranging...
... Because it is possible to check high voltages, extra care should be taken to avoid electrical shock Step Insert the red and black leads into the proper jacks on the meter a The black probe ... tip of the red, positive lead on the positive side ofa battery Put the tip of the black, negative, lead on the other end ofa battery a Is any number showing up on the multimeter? _If not, make ... of measurement For example Vol, voltage, or V If the voltage is negative, reverse the leads Reflection: Name one thing that should not be done to a multimeter _ Name one important...
... Because it is possible to check high voltages, extra care should be taken to avoid electrical shock Step Insert the red and black leads into the proper jacks on the meter a The black probe ... tip of the red, positive lead on the positive side ofa battery Put the tip of the black, negative, lead on the other end ofa battery a Is any number showing up on the multimeter? _If not, make ... of measurement For example Vol, voltage, or V If the voltage is negative, reverse the leads Reflection: Name one thing that should not be done to a multimeter _ Name one important...
... (viz a year) or else a number Note t h a t all of these classifications were m a d e on the basis of the examination of concordances over a several-hundredthousand-word sample of manuals data Possible ... feature bundle all of whose features are variable, and with a decreasing number of variable features occuring as a branch is traced from root to leaf To find the mnemonic A4 (A) assigned to an arbitrary ... be ascertained The value ofa large bracketed training corpus is that it allows the grammarian to obtain quickly a very large set of sentences that 2Actually there are 18 x = 54 labels, as each...
... resources that will be required upon hand-off for assay validation SJ, AW, SWA and KA performed the in vitro assays on monkeys treated with Ab-01 and control Ig and analyzed the data, and KA and SA performed ... 10.1186/1479-5876-8-51 Cite this article as: Arai et al., Developmentand application ofa biomarker assay for determining the pharmacodynamic activity of an antagonist candidate biotherapeutic antibody to IL21R ... were among the "inventoried" assays available from ABI, and are described in Table cDNA synthesis, preparation of samples for TLDA assay and measurements of RNA concentration were performed as...
... quality of life benefits? A quantitative analysis of literature Transplantation 1997, 64:1261-1273 Fujisawa M, Ichikawa Y, Yoshiya K, Isotani S, Higuchi A, Nagano S, Arakawa S, Hamami G, Matsumoto ... data management, analyzed and interpreted the data, drafted the manuscript; EJ participated in the design of the study, collected the data and performed the statistical analysis BD and VM: participated ... transplant patients Am J Nephrol 2004, 24:346-351 Rebollo P, Ortega F, Baltar JM, Díaz-Corte C, Navascués RA, Naves M, Ure a A, Bad a X, Alvarez-Ude F, Alvarez-Grande J: Health related quality of...
... position of the fibular head was marked on the clear acrylic plate, and the angle formed between the lateral malleolus and the fibular head was measured The test was completed three times, and the average ... pain [13] as an outcome measure in a clinical trial [14] and as a measure of foot pain in people with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome [15] and early rheumatoid arthritis [16] The MFPDI appears to be a ... and validation ofa questionnaire designed to measure foothealth status J Am Podiatr Med Assoc 1998, 88:419-428 Garrow AP, Papageorgiou AC, Silman AJ, Thomas E, Jayson MIV, Macfarlane GJ: Development...
... University of Bath, England, showed that the stress-strain profile of the unadulterated PU foam sample and that of the PPy-coated PU foams sample were similar showing regions of elastic and inelastic ... optimal locations for sensors In addition, processing algorithms for extraction of patterns from gathered data are required, as well as wearable and wireless hardware to allow the data to be used ... normal user patterns of care and maintenance of clothing In the torso integration, the raw pilot test data indicates that foam sensors can provide detectable responses to all of the body signals...
... CA1 CA MA1, SA MA, SA1 MA, SA MA, SA MA, SA Event +CA2 +SA +MA2 + SA2 +CA -SA -MA Result CA1 stop CA2 start CA → MA SA start MA1 stop MA2 start SA1 stop SA2 start MA stop SA stop CA start SA ... data from each case is transferred to a PC and evaluated statistically and graphically: the number of individual occurrences of each task, mean duration of each occurrence of each task, the total ... This task analysis method can be used to identify and develop explanations of individual differences in task performance as well as among hospitals and other medical professions SM and DAG designed...
... Thomas, Keith McAdam and all the staff of the Adult Infectious Disease Clinic and the Academic Alliance The study was funded by the Division of Intramural Research of the National Institute of Allergy ... Univariate and multivariate logistic regression analysis Table summarizes the univariate results for adherence patterns, clinical events and laboratory variables associated with viral failure Odds ratio ... Ethical approvals Informed consent was obtained from all the participants Ethical approval for this study was obtained from the National Council of Science and Technology (Uganda) and from the National...
... with kappas ranging from = 58 to 75; reliability was not affected by gender or race [19] The scale has also been used in a Canadian sample of 926 men and women age 65 or over and revealed that those ... each cancer type and each gender group (Table 4) This presentational approach appeared more parsimonious and provided a more logical organization than a mere sequential listing of each temporal ... organized around the test's properties regarding means and reliability (Tables 1, 2, 3), and then reports on evidence of validity Finally, raw means and standard deviations are provided for each...
... taking into account the phrasing of the items and their meaning Exploratory factor analysis (EFA): The sample was randomly divided into two halves; one each for EFA and CFA EFA for all 182 candidate ... citizens and permanent residents, of which 74.2% are of Chinese descent, 13.4% are of Malay descent, and 9.2% are of Indian descent [6] Singapore has a high literacy rate (80.4%) and the main language ... Review Board of the National Healthcare Group, Singapore Ethical approval covered all aspects of the study including design, sample size and selection, participant recruitment and data management...
... Preparation of the paper; analyses and interpretation of data; final approval of the version to be published MS: Preparation of the paper; analyses and interpretation of data; final approval of ... Preparation of the paper; acquisition of subjects and data; final approval of the version to be published NS: Preparation of the paper; analyses and interpretation of data; final approval of the ... Validation of the Self-Management Ability Scale (SMAS) anddevelopmentand validation ofa shorter scale (SMAS-S) among older patients shortly after hospitalisation Jane M Cramm*, Mathilde...
... new coronary cannula maded for this study (A: An’s Cannula) and the coronary cannula used in the work of Casali et al (B: Casali’s cannula) Developmentand Evaluation ofa New Apparatus for Continuous ... area of aorta cardioplegia cannula placed into aorta Inferior Vena Cava(VCI) and pulmonary vein(PV) localized 10 VCI clamped 11 aorta clamped and 4℃ cardioplegia infused at 300 mmHg simultaneously ... coronary arteries were separated, anda ligature material placed around as near as their ostia The coronary cannula are inserted and fixed into the coronary arteries In both groups, the latex balloon...
... number of hospital admissions with CHF as the primary reason for admission, number of all-cause hospital admissions, CHF hospital bed days of care, and all-cause hospital bed days of care Data collection ... Page of 11 Availability of an NP case manager: The NP case managers played a key role in (a) managing CHF patients’ cardiac care and medical needs, (b) educating patients, (c) coordinating the care ... year At baseline, the CHF patient population at each medical center had some significant differences in racial composition, number of comorbidities, and allcause admissions and days of care At...
... range of each measure across included footwear was also reported Intra-rater and inter-rater reliability for all categorical data was evaluated using percentage agreement, and kappa (κ) statistics ... developmentof the scale and the interpretation of the results, helped draft the manuscript, and read and approved the final manuscript Additional material Additional file Developmentand evaluation ... first ray distally along the shoe), medial (greater medial than lateral wear at the heel and forefoot), which may indicate excessive pronation, or lateral (greater lateral than medial wear at the...