Clinical scoring systems have been proposed for respiratory disease diagnosis in calves, including the Wisconsin (WI) system (McGuirk in 2008) which uses five clinical signs, each partitioned into four levels of severity. Recently, we developed the California (CA) bovine respiratory disease (BRD) scoring system requiring less calf handling and consisting of six clinical signs, each classified a...

OBJECTIVE Most chest radiography scoring systems for patients with cystic fibrosis have been developed for children but are also used for adults. Our aim was to evaluate the intra- and interobserver variability of 2 radiographic scoring systems in adults with cystic fibrosis and to assess the correlation of these systems with clinical and spirometric parameters. PATIENTS AND METHODS The chest...

INTRODUCTION During the past decades several rating scales have been developed to assess the functional status of patients with low back pain. METHODS We performed a search using the keywords 'spine' in combination with 'scoring system', 'scale', 'scores', 'outcome assessment', 'low back pain' and 'clinical evaluation'. RESULTS Twenty-eight scoring systems are currently available for the ev...

of the Thesis Applications and Enhancements of Feather Weight Virtual Machine (FVM)

Introduction Injury scoring systems are designed to accurately assess injury severity, appropriately triage the injured, and develop and refine trauma patient care.1 Trauma scores quantify the severity and extent of injury, aid with the prediction of survival and subsequent morbidity,2 and allow health care providers to communicate in common terms. One disadvantage of injury scoring systems is ...

Categorizing human diseases provides higher efficiency and accuracy for disease diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment. Disease-disease association (DDA) is a precious information that indicates the large-scale structure of complex relationships of diseases. However, the number of known and reliable associations is very small. Therefore, identification of DDAs is a challenging task in systems biol...

This paper examined validity evidence for the scores based on the Intelligent Essay Assessor (IEA), an automated essay-scoring engine developed by Pearson Knowledge Technologies. A study was carried out using the validity framework described by Yang, et al. (2002). This framework delineates three approaches to validation studies: examine the relationship among scores given to the same essays by...

in assessing foreign language writing, holistic and analytic scoring can be used to measure a variety of discourse and linguistic features. this study aimed to investigate the possible significant effect of analyt- ic and holistic assessments on improving writing skill among iranian efl learners. for this purpose, two groups of intermediate efl learners, after being homogenized, were divided in...