The amylase creatinine clearance ratio (ACCR) is considered to be a more sensitive index of acute pancreatitis than the serum amylase level. Serial ACCR estimations were undertaken in 25 patients undergoing an elective cholecystectomy. Using accepted criteria, 28% of these patients developed, in the postoperative period, biochemical evidence of pancreatic gland damage, although the serum amylas...

Some index structures have been redesigned to minimize the cache misses and improve their CPU cache performances. The Cache Sensitive B+Tree and recently developed Cache Sensitive T-Tree are the most well-known cache conscious index structures. Their performance evaluations, however, were made in single core CPU machines. Nowadays even the desktop computers are equipped with multi-core CPU proc...

The Gini index does not give a strictly consistent scoring function. Therefore, simply maximizing the may lead to wrong model choice. main issue is that rank-based score calibration-sensitive. We show allows for if we restrict it class of auto-calibrated regression models. That is, on models know true maximizes index.

In confronting the challenge of providing formal models of dialogue, with its plethora of fragments and rich variation in modes of context-dependent construal, it might seem that linguists face two types of methodological choice: either (a) conversation employs dialogue-specific mechanisms, for which a grammar specific to such activity must be constructed; or (b) variation arises due to indepen...