In real-world data mining applications, an accurate ranking is same important to a accurate classification. Naive Bayes (simply NB) has been widely used in data mining as a simple and effective classification and ranking algorithm. Since its conditional independence assumption is rarely true, numerous algorithms have been proposed to improve Naive Bayes, for example, SBC[1] and TAN[2]. Indeed, ...

In mid-1997, the new board of directors of SBC/ FUNCOR established the Committee of Medical Residency and Training to assist with the evaluation of training in cardiology. Besides providing subsidies and criteria for accreditation of the courses, this committee was encouraged to address the problem of cardiologists’ training in our country. During six months of work, the committee concluded tha...

Context. The prediction of stellar angular diameters from broadband photometry plays an important role in different applications. In particular, long-baseline interferometry, gravitational microlensing, extrasolar planet transits, and many other observing techniques require accurate predictions of the angular size of stars. These predictions are based on the surface brightness-color (SBC) relat...

Bone metastases occur in more than one-third of patients with advanced lung cancer and are difficult to treat. We showed previously the therapeutic effect of a third-generation bisphosphonate, minodronate, and anti-parathyroid hormone-related protein (PTHrP) neutralizing antibody on bone metastases induced by the human small cell lung cancer cell line, SBC-5, in natural killer cell-depleted sev...

Using a cell line (SBC-3/ADM) of human small cell lung cancer, which is 30-fold more resistant to adriamycin than the parent cell line (SBC-3), the activity of a variety of anticancer agents was analyzed by soft agar clonogenic assay to search for a means of circumventing drug resistance. The SBC-3/ADM cells were markedly resistant to some anthracycline antibiotics in comparison with the SBC-3 ...

In the process of water treatment, excessive nitrogen and phosphorus pollutants are great concern. Therefore, we prepared nanoscale zerovalent iron loaded on sediment-based biochar (nZVI-SBC) to conduct nitrate phosphate removal at same time. The characterization demonstrated that nZVI-SBC was successfully synthesized, which had obvious advantages for larger specific surface area better dispers...

BACKGROUND Work-related satisfaction is an important determinant of quality of care. However, its relationship with doctors' mental health is poorly understood. It could have an independent beneficial effect on mental health (direct association) or simply reduce the impact of work stress on mental health (moderating or 'buffering' role). METHODS One thousand seven hundred and thirty-two Swiss...

The novel anticancer glucosyl derivative of indolo-carbazole (NB-506), an inhibitor of DNA topoisomerase I, exhibited strong in vitro cytotoxicity against various human cancer cell lines. In order to elucidate its cytotoxic mechanisms, we established nine NB-506-resistant sublines with different resistance ratios from human small cell lung cancer cells (SBC-3/P) by stepwise and brief exposure (...

Notch signaling regulates cell-fate decisions during development and postnatal life. Little is known, however, about the role of Delta-like-4 (Dll4)-Notch signaling between cancer cells, or how this signaling affects cancer metastasis. We, therefore, assessed the role of Dll4-Notch signaling in cancer metastasis. We generated a soluble Dll4 fused to the IgG1 constant region (Dll4-Fc) that acts ...

The Shapley-Ames Catalog of 1276 galaxies with B < 12.5 is compared with the Sanders et al. all sky sample of the 629 galaxies with 60 μm flux density > 5.24 Jy. The fraction of Shapley-Ames galaxies that are visible in the IR is found to increase from 0.006 for E and E/S0 galaxies to 0.384 for Sc galaxies. The subset of Shapley-Ames galaxies that are detected in the IR has a median blue lumino...