Background All indices of systolic myocardial performance, including CMR strain, reflect the interplay between contractile state and loading conditions. However, CMR strains have been used largely in descriptive fashion, without consideration of physiologic determinants. We have previously demonstrated the role of increased afterload as a determinant of CMR strain using feature tracking (FT) in...

Weighted Rank Correlation indices are useful for measuring the agreement of two rankings when the top ranks are considered more important than the lower ones. This paper investigates, from a descriptive perspective, the behaviour of i) five existing indices that introduce suitable weights in the simplified formula of the Spearman’s ρ and ii) an additional five indices we derive using the same w...

Chemical graphs, as other ones, are regular if all their vertices have the same degree. Otherwise, they are irregular, and it is of interest to measure their irregularity both for descriptive purposes and for QSAR/QSPR studies. Three indices have been proposed in the literature for that purpose: those of Collatz-Sinogowitz, of Albertson, and of Bell's variance of degrees. We study their propert...

We review the properties of Global Index Grammars (GIGs), a grammar formalism that uses a stack of indices associated with productions and has restricted context-sensitive power. We show how the control of the derivation is performed and how this impacts in the descriptive power of this formalism both in the string languages and the structural descriptions that GIGs can generate. 1.

This chapter introduces different knowledge components and indices and attempts to show their impacts on different economic and development indicators with focus on EEE and Arab economies. It uses mainly descriptive statistics and regression analysis to globally assess these performances. The sets of data used for EEE show already the data limitations faced by Arab economies.

Serial assessments of neurocognitive functioning in athletes with concussion are commonly used for return to play decisions. This study provides reliable change indices (RCIs) for computerized tests from 40 NCAA Division I collegiate athletes that suffered a sports-related concussion. The normative data that resulted from the RCIs and subsequent analyses of differences between improved and not ...

This paper discusses region-based representations useful to create connected operators. The filtering approach involves three steps: first, a region tree representation of the input image is constructed. Second, the simplification is obtained by pruning the tree and third, and output image is constructed from the pruned tree. The paper focuses in particular on the pruning strategies that can be...