BACKGROUND Several models for mortality prediction have been constructed for critically ill patients with haematological malignancies in recent years. These models have proven to be equally or more accurate in predicting hospital mortality in patients with haematological malignancies than ICU severity of illness scores such as the APACHE II or SAPS II 1. The objective of this study is to compar...

invariance, which displays an invariance as complex as the hypercomplex or the pattern invariance, would be tracked at latencies as early as the latencies of the MLR. A complex invariance, where none of the standard stimuli are identical, but all are the same regarding at least one feature, has, to author’s knowledge, not been tested neither. In the third study of the present th...

BACKGROUND The growth of the private health insurance sector in Western countries, which is characterized by information deficiencies and limited competition, necessitates the implementation of effective regulatory tools. One measure which is widely used is the medical loss ratio (MLR). Our objective was to analyze how MLR is applied as a regulatory measure in the Israeli voluntary health insur...

Auditory change detection has been associated with mismatch negativity (MMN), an event-related potential (ERP) occurring at 100-250 ms after the onset of an acoustic change. Yet, single-unit recordings in animals suggest much faster novelty-specific responses in the auditory system. To investigate change detection in a corresponding early time range in humans, we measured the Middle Latency Res...

Developing reliable estimates of streamflow prediction are crucial for water resources management and flood forecasting purposes. The objectives of this study are to investigate the potential of support vector machines (SVM) model for streamflow forecasting at ungaged sites, and to compare its performance with other statistical method of multiple linear regression (MLR). Three quantitative stan...

There is a general impression that visually blind individuals show an exceptionally better perception of other sensory modalities such as hearing, touch and smell sensations. In this study, we intended to compare the mid-latency auditory evoked potential response (MLAEP) or Middle latency Response (MLR) to get an idea of the activity pattern of auditory thalamus and cortex between 30 visually h...

The hydrophobicity of peptide is an important factor that affects the dissolution behavior of proteins and peptides, also affect the physical and chemical properties. In this study, each amino acid side chain was characterized using three structure parameters (heuristic molecular lipophilicity potential, HMLP). The HMLP parameters, total surface area(S), lipophilic indices (L), and hydrophilic ...

The meta-learner MLR (Multi-response Linear Regression) has been proposed as a trainable combiner for fusing heterogeneous baselevel classifiers. Although it has interesting properties, it never has been evaluated extensively up to now. This paper employs learning curves to investigate the relative performance of MLR for solving multi-class classification problems in comparison with other train...

Few objective analysis techniques have been developed for, or applied to, the auditory evoked middle latency response (MLR). This report demonstrates the applicability of the Fsp statistical technique (Elberling and Don, 1984) to the MLR time domain. Subjects for this study were 10 normal hearing young adults. The stimuli were 60, 40, 20 dB nHL clicks and a NS control. Evoked responses were obt...

UNLABELLED Virus-specific T cells have the intrinsic capacity to cross-react against allogeneic HLA antigens, a phenomenon known as heterologous immunity. In transplantation, these cells may contribute to the alloimmune response and negatively impact graft outcome. This study describes the various techniques that can be used to detect heterologous immune responses of virus-specific CD8(+) T cel...