OBJECTIVE To assess the clinical and radiological factors as predictors for successful outcomes in lumbar disc herniation (LDH) treatment. METHODS Two groups of patients with single level LDH (L4-5) requiring treatment were retrospectively studied. The surgery group (SG) included 34 patients, and 30 patients who initially refused the surgery were included in the nerve blocks group (NG). A vis...

This paper describes a set of experiments on two sub-tasks of Quality Estimation of Machine Translation (MT) output. Sentence-level ranking of alternative MT outputs is done with pairwise classifiers using Logistic Regression with blackbox features originating from PCFG Parsing, language models and various counts. Post-editing time prediction uses regression models, additionally fed with new el...

the aim of this study was to investigate the potential association between growth hormone gh/alui and growth hormone receptor ghr/alui polymorphisms with milk yield and reproductive performances in holstein dairy cows in iran. blood samples of 150 holstein cows were collected and their genomic dna was extracted using gene-fanavaran dna extracting kit. fragments of the 428 bp of exon 5 growth ho...

Multiple Logistic Regression Just as in OLS regression, logistic models can include more than one predictor. The analysis options are similar to regression. One can choose to select variables, as with a stepwise procedure, or one can enter the predictors simultaneously, or they can be entered in blocks. Variations of the likelihood ratio test can be conducted in which the chi-square test (G) is...