Changes in the hydrologic cycle due to increase in greenhouse gases cause variations in intensity, duration, and frequency of precipitation events. Quantifying the potential effects of climate change and adapting to them is one way to reduce urban vulnerability. Since rainfall characteristics are often used to design water structures, reviewing and updating rainfall characteristics (i.e., Inten...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to compare the predictive value for coronary heart disease (CHD) of the International Diabetes Federation (IDF) definition (with Asian criteria for central obesity) of the metabolic syndrome with existing criteria of the National Cholesterol Education Program (NCEP) Adult Treatment Panel III (ATP III) in Chinese subjects with type 2 diabetes. RESEARCH D...

This article evaluates a web page-oriented representation model for document clustering, using self-organizing maps. The representation is based on heuristic combinations of criteria by means of a fuzzy rules system. The experiments show an improvement in the proposed model behaviour versus traditional representations as TF, Bin-IDF and TF-IDF, with different vector dimensions, and using a refe...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to assess the prevalence of metabolic syndrome (MS) and its association with coronary artery disease (CAD) among an elderly urban population in south India. METHODS Individuals aged ≥60 years (n=222) were recruited from Phase 3 of the Chennai Urban Rural Epidemiology Study. Anthropometric and blood pressure measurements, oral glucose tolerance test, lipids ...

OBJECTIVES To compare the prevalence, agreement and phenotypic characteristics in three ethnic groups of the new International Diabetes Federation (IDF) definition of metabolic syndrome (MS) to the World Health Organization (WHO) and national cholesterol education program (NCEP) definitions. SETTING Newcastle upon Tyne, England. DESIGN Cross-sectional surveys. PARTICIPANTS Chinese (171 me...

In this paper we present experiments for global polarity classification task of Spanish tweets for TASS 2015 challenge. In our methodology, tweets representation is focused on linguistic and polarity features such as lemmatized words, filter of content words, rules of negation, among others. In addition, different transformations are used (LDA, LSI, and TF-IDF) and combined with a SVM classifie...