introduction: meningioma is usually a benign brain tumor, but sometimes with aggressive course. the aim of this study was to assess the ability of 201tl brain spect to differentiate the pathologic grade of meningioma preoperatively. methods: thirty lesions in 28 patients were evaluated in this study. early (20 minutes) and late (3 hours) brain spect images were performed and early uptake ratio...

A sensitive index was proposed for the determination of left ventricular compliance. In the isolated potassium-arrested canine left ventricle, the pressure-volume (P-V) relationship was expressed as deltaV=a-be-cP throughout the range of filling pressure from 0 to 40 cmH2O, where deltaV and P were the actual volume change and intraventricular pressure, and a, b and c were constants. Then, half-...

OBJECTIVE Decreased reciprocal inhibition (RI) of motor neurons may contribute to spasticity after stroke. However, decreased RI is not a uniform observation among stroke survivors, suggesting that this spinal circuit may be influenced by other stroke-related characteristics. The purpose of this study was to measure RI post-stroke and to examine the relationship between RI and other features of...

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We present several innovative techniques that can be applied in a PPRLM system for language identification (LID). To normalize the scores, eliminate the bias in the scores and improve the classifier, we compared the bias removal technique (up to 19% relative improvement (RI)) and a Gaussian classifier (up to 37% RI). Then, we include additional sources of information in different feature vector...

UNLABELLED Background and Purpose-The intima-media thickness (IMT) of the carotid artery is a (morphological) sonographic parameter that depends on the degree of atherosclerosis. In the renal arteries, the value of the (hemodynamic) resistive index (RI) is correlated with the severity of atherosclerosis. In contrast to the well-known IMT, no study has yet applied the carotid RI to estimate gene...

BACKGROUND The Ramazzini Institute (RI) has completed nearly 400 cancer bioassays on > 200 compounds. The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) and others have suggested that study design and protocol differences between the RI and other laboratories by may contribute to controversy regarding cancer hazard findings, principally findings on lymphoma/leukemia diagnoses. OBJECTIVE We aimed to ev...

OBJECTIVE To improve the normalization of relative and incomplete temporal expressions (RI-TIMEXes) in clinical narratives. METHODS We analyzed the RI-TIMEXes in temporally annotated corpora and propose two hypotheses regarding the normalization of RI-TIMEXes in the clinical narrative domain: the anchor point hypothesis and the anchor relation hypothesis. We annotated the RI-TIMEXes in three ...

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