M e t h o d s Design: 2 cohort studies, 1 for derivation and 1 for validation. Setting: 186 hospitals in Pennsylvania, United States (derivation cohort), and emergency departments of 117 hospitals in France and Belgium (validation cohort). Patients: 10 534 adults discharged from hospital (53% > 65 y of age, 60% women) with a diagnosis of PE (derivation cohort). 367 patients (69% > 65 y of age, ...

The demand of estimation of age from facial images has tremendous applications in real world scenario like law enforcement, security control, and human computer interaction etc. However despite advances in automatic age estimation, the computer based age classification has become prevalent. The present paper evaluates the method of age group classification based on the Correlation Fractal Dimen...

there is a great interest in developing rapid analytical methods and provide appropriate parametersfor quantitative analysis of compounds derived from refractory pollutants. such methods are important forroutine quality control analysis of an effluent before being discharged into the environment. therefore, a rapid methodology for identification and quantification of some aliphatic acids is pro...

conclusions the farsi version of the pass is a valid and reliable tool to measure academic procrastination in iranian undergraduate medical students. background procrastination is a common behavior which affects different aspects of life. the procrastination assessment scale-student (pass) evaluates academic procrastination apropos its frequency and reasons. objectives the aims of the present s...

background and aim : hearing impairment affects educational skills of hearing-impaired students, but its negative impact is far more on reading and writing skills. this study was per­formed to design and validate an educational software to improve writing skills. methods : in this study, the mixed-methods approach was used. in the first step, the qualitative method was used to design the educat...

The first part of the experiments in Sood et al. [2015] builds their signature and assesses its ability to predict chronological age in different settings. This first part involves eight gene expression studies: six from muscle, one from brain and one from skin samples. The skin study was done on Illumina Human HT-12 V3 arrays and all the others on Affymetrix HGU133plus2 arrays. The first muscl...