The purpose of the study was to evaluate the diagnostic value of combined use of linear-array and intracavity high-frequency transducers in submandibular gland sialolithiasis. This retrospective study involved 77 cases with surgically confirmed submandibular gland sialolithiasis. All patients underwent high-frequency ultrasound with linear-array and intracavity transducers before surgery. Subma...

Small intestinal bacterial overgrowth (SIBO) is characterized by an overgrowth of various types of bacteria in the small intestine, bacteria which are largely only found in the colon. SIBO was initially thought of as a rare condition; however, it is now recognized as a more prevalent digestive disorder than previously acknowledged. A meta-analysis has shown the prevalence of SIBO to be approxim...

We consider time series that, possibly after integer di¤erencing or integrating or other detrending, are covariance stationary with spectral density that is regularly varying near zero frequency, and unspeci…ed elsewhere. This semiparametric framework includes series with short, long and negative memory. We establish consistency of the popular log-periodogram memory estimate that, conventionall...

The clinical diagnosis of gout can be quite precise in clinically typical forms. However, in chronic or atypical forms, such precision tends to be diminished in clinical practice. A cohort of 248 patients with a diagnosis of urate crystal arthropathy was studied, sent with a definite clinical evaluation, and data such as severity of the disease, joint distribution and the presence of tophi were...

A cognitive agent should have the capability to learn autonomously in completely unforeseen situations. "Unforeseen" means something that was not taken into account in an internal representation of the world (i.e. it is "impossible"). However it is detectable in the form of unusual sensor measurements. Two problems must be solved: rst, the "newness" of the situation must be detected, i.e. it sh...

Carbon dioxide from soil respiration is a key source of atmospheric CO2 and a major component of the global carbon cycle. However, the temporal pattern of soil respiration is not well understood and even wrongly modeled. In a 360-day laboratory experiment, we investigated temporal patterns of soil respiration and microbial carbon availability using five soils taken from five altitudinal zones o...

It is well known that spatial phase shifting interferometry (SPSI) may be used to demodulate two-dimensional (2D) spatial-carrier interferograms. In these cases the application of SPSI is straightforward because the modulating phase is a monotonic increasing function of space. However, this is not true when we apply SPSI to demodulate a single-image interferogram containing closed fringes. This...

OpenSubtitles.org provides a large collection of user contributed subtitles in various languages for movies and TV programs. Subtitle translations are valuable resources for cross-lingual studies and machine translation research. A less explored feature of the collection is the inclusion of alternative translations, which can be very useful for training paraphrase systems or collecting multi-re...

Onychomycosis is a difficult diagnosis to manage and treatment is sometimes avoided, as this diagnosis is often wrongly perceived as a cosmetic problem. However, onychomycosis has a negative impact on patients' quality of life, affecting social interaction, psychological well-being, and physical activities. Onychomycosis is also a risk factor for patients with diabetes, with proven increased ra...

In real-world supervised Machine Learning tasks, the learned theory can be deemed as valid only until there is evidence to the contrary (i.e., new observations that are wrongly classified by the theory). In such a case, incremental approaches allow to revise the existing theory to account for the new evidence, instead of learning a new theory from scratch. In many cases, positive and negative e...