Nomograms for Sling and Assmann Psychrometers

Blood Pressure Nomograms by Age and Weight for Iranian Children and Adolescents

Background: Normal standard references of blood pressure (BP) for children and adolescents have been suggested to be constructed based on anthropometric indices. Accordingly, we aimed to develop first BP reference percentiles by weight and age for Iranian children aged 3-18 years old. Materials and Methods: A total of 16,246 children and adolescents aged 3-18 years were included from 3 cross-se...

Of Donkeys and Nomograms

If you are a vet, you will often need to know the weight of an animal, for example to prescribe the right amount of a drug. If your animal is a rabbit, this is not a problem. But if your animal is large, say a donkey, and if you are out in the field, then you will not be able to weigh the animal directly. However, if you have a tape measure then you can weigh the animal indirectly, if you have ...

Augmented Fascia Temporalis Sling for Paralytic Ectropion; a Triple Surgery

Purpose: To report the effect of fascia temporalis sling of lower lid combined with lateral canthus Y-V plasty and tarsorrhaphy on paralytic ectropion. Methods: Eight patients with lower lid paralytic ectropion were treated with lower lid fascia temporalis sling and lateral canthus Y-V plasty in addition to lateral tarsorrhaphy in one step surgery. A band of approximately 4 cm in length and 1 c...

Polyethylene sling for procidentia.

Nomograms for Visualizing Linear Support Vector Machines

Support vector machines are often considered to be black box learning algorithms. We show that for linear kernels it is possible to open this box and visually depict the content of the SVM classifier in high-dimensional space in the interactive format of a nomogram. We provide a crosscalibration method for obtaining probabilistic predictions from any SVM classifier, which control for the genera...