AIMS Multiple studies have focused on the relationship of body anthropometric measures with clinical events in ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) patients, highlighting the 'obesity paradox'. However, the relative prognostic importance of these measures over other baseline variables is less known. METHOD AND RESULTS We performed a retrospective analysis of 94,108 STEMI patients from s...

The paper analyzes the prosody features, which includes the intonation, speaking rate, intensity, based on classified emotional speech. As an important feature of voice quality, voice source are also deduced for analysis. With the analysis results above, the paper creates both a CART model and a weight decay neural network model to find acoustic importance towards the emotional speech classific...

Information retrieval (IR) is the area of study concerned with searching documents or information within documents. The user describes information needs with a query which consists of a number of words. Finding weight of a query term is useful to determine the importance of a query. Calculating term importance is fundamental aspect of most information retrieval approaches and it is traditionall...

Public health protection from environmental contaminants requires an understanding of the extent of contamination and of the extent of exposure to the contamination. My argument here is that weight-normalized, species-specific, individual-consumption pattern data are vital for determining exposure levels used to ascertain health protection measures and impacts from consuming contaminated fish. ...

BACKGROUND Blood banks split an adult packed red cell bag (usually 250 ml) into 30 ml bags, making a total of eight neonatal "satellite" packs per donor. These packs are then "allocated"/"committed" to be used to serially transfuse a newborn. AIM To study transfusion requirements of premature infants in relation to their birth weight and thereby attempt to rationalise the method of dispensing...

The paper analyzes the prosody features, which includes the intonation, speaking rate, intensity, based on classified emotional speech. As an important feature of voice quality, voice source are also deduced for analysis. With the analysis results above, the paper creates both a CART model and a weight decay neural network model to find acoustic importance towards the emotional speech classific...

OBJECTIVE Evaluate reported use of the practice of "eating more protein" to prevent weight gain among midlife women. DESIGN Cross-sectional national survey. PARTICIPANTS One thousand eight hundred twenty-four midlife women (40-60 y) from the 9 United States geographic regions, primarily married (71%), white (76%), and well educated; half were premenopausal (49%). OUTCOMES Frequency of die...

e widespread availability of minimally invasive hemodynamic monitors encourages evaluation of cardiac output (CO) and stroke volume (SV) in real time, and they are integral to goal-directed therapy, algorithmbased treatment plans. Patients with extremes of body surface area (BSA) are at risk of having their indices erroneously evaluated despite adequate non-indexed values. We evaluated the use ...

High-molecular-weight glutenin subunits (HMW-GS) composition was analyzed by sodium-dodecyl-sulfatpolyacrilamid-gel electrophoresis (SDS-PAGE), while the quantitative determination of total HMW-GS was obtained by reversed phasehigh performance liquid chromatography (RP-HPLC). Considering HMW-GS composition, the most frequent subunits at Glu-A1 locus were N, at Glu-B1 locus 7+9 and at Glu-D1 loc...