A new high pressure flow meter (HPFM) method for measuring plant hydraulic conductances (K) was investigated to examine whether its results are comparable to those from a conventional evaporative flux (EF) method in crops. Hydraulic conductance (K) was measured by the two methods under quasi-steady-state conditions in six crops grown in pots: soybean (Glycine max L. Merr. cv. Tsurunoko daizu), ...

Genomic prediction is a statistical method to predict phenotypes of polygenic traits using high-throughput genomic data. Most diseases and behaviors in humans and animals are polygenic traits. The majority of agronomic traits in crops are also polygenic. Accurate prediction of these traits can help medical professionals diagnose acute diseases and breeders to increase food products, and therefo...

The composition vector (CV) method is an alignment-free method for phylogenetics. Because of its simplicity when compared with the alignment-based methods, the method has been widely discussed lately. There are mainly four steps in the CV method: (1) count the frequency of each k-string in the sequence; (2) construct the composition vector for the sequence; (3) compute the distance between ever...

We have previously proposed a cross-validation (CV) based Gaussian mixture optimization method that efficiently optimizes the model structure based on CV likelihood. In this study, we propose aggregated cross-validation (AgCV) that introduces a bagging-like approach in the CV framework to reinforce the model selection ability. While a single model is used in CV to evaluate a held-out subset, Ag...

In this paper a new method for tuning regularisation parameters or other hyperparameters of a learning process (non-linear function estimation) is proposed, called robust cross-validation score function (CV S−fold). CV Robust S−fold is effective for dealing with outliers and nonGaussian noise distributions on the data. Illustrative simulation results are given to demonstrate that the CV S−fold ...

(i) From figure 4 (Grzebyk et al., 2005), the French method (Method 1) of appraisal of the quality of the results of analysts involved in fibre counting by PCOM is, at least theoretically, quite a lot more stringent than the other two methods discussed. However, in practice in the field (table 2, Grzebyk et al., 2005), the French method is a little bit less demanding (‘selective’) than the RICE...

PURPOSE To compare the reproducibilities of manual and semiautomatic segmentation method for the measurement of normalized cerebral blood volume (nCBV) using dynamic susceptibility contrast-enhanced (DSC) perfusion MR imaging in glioblastomas. MATERIALS AND METHODS Twenty-two patients (11 male, 11 female; 27 tumors) with histologically confirmed glioblastoma (WHO grade IV) were examined with ...

Simplified methods were described for the measurement of growth of human car cinoma cells in tissue culture: (a) determination of color intensity in lysates of cells stained with crystal violet (CV method), (6) determination of the reduction of 2,6dichlorophenol indophenol, and (c) determination of total organic solids (dichromate method). The three methods gave comparable measurements of relat...

OBJECTIVES Fibromyalgia (FM) is a disorder characterised by chronic widespread pain in soft tissues, especially in muscles. Previous research has demonstrated a higher muscle fibre conduction velocity (CV) in painful muscles of FM patients. The primary goal of this study was to investigate whether there is also a difference in CV in non-painful, non-tender point (TP) related muscles between FM ...

Cross-Validation (CV), and out-of-sample performance-estimation protocols in general, are often employed both for (a) selecting the optimal combination of algorithms and values of hyper-parameters (called a configuration) for producing the final predictive model, and (b) estimating the predictive performance of the final model. However, the cross-validated performance of the best configuration ...