context this article reviews the available evidence about the barrier membranes utilized in guided tissue regeneration process to prevent the migration of unfavorable cells to the wound area. evidence acquisition available evidence about membranes properties and their different uses were reviewed, and the results of clinical and animal studies and systematic reviews were gathered. results a lar...

The paper critically reviews the presently available experimental data from various tests and experiments connected with the deepsea mining issue with regard to their feasibility in supporting and validating the developed numerical models. Numerical modelling is applied mainly to predetermining the plume development and sea oor blanketing caused by various sediment discharges. The paper describ...

Personality researchers have recently advocated the use of very short personality inventories in order to minimize administration time. However, few such inventories are currently available. Here I introduce an automated method that can be used to abbreviate virtually any personality inventory with minimal effort. After validating the method against existing measures in Studies 1 and 2, a new 1...

MOTIVATION Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified many loci implicated in disease susceptibility. Integration of GWAS summary statistics (P-values) and functional genomic datasets should help to elucidate mechanisms. RESULTS We extended a non-parametric SNP set enrichment method to test for enrichment of GWAS signals in functionally defined loci to a situation where only GWAS ...

It is increasingly necessary to have a measuring instrument available in the health field that can be used in clinical practice and research. In order to guarantee the quality of their measurements it is essential that the instruments should be subjected to a process of validation. This process consists in adapting the instrument culturally to the setting where its psychometric characteristics ...

This work 1 studies music classification using the 1-Nearest Neighbor rule comparing the Euclidean distance metric to an information distance metric based on Kolmogorov Complexity. The reason for this comparison is two-fold. First, to understand the music classification task and how similarity measures play a role. Secondly, to contribute to the knowledge regarding effective similarity measures...

Mock communities are an important tool for validating, optimizing, and comparing bioinformatics methods for microbial community analysis. We present mockrobiota, a public resource for sharing, validating, and documenting mock community data resources, available at http://caporaso-lab.github.io/mockrobiota/. The materials contained in mockrobiota include data set and sample metadata, expected co...