background: the aim of this study was to detect prognostic factors in recurrent breast cancer metastasis. materials and methods: th is retrospective cohort study employed data from 996 breast cancer patients of isfahan seyed-o-shohada research center from 1998 to 2010. stratifi ed cox proportional hazards model, marginal approach, was used to evaluate the prognostic value of estrogen receptor, ...

Fungi display a large diversity in genome size and complexity, variation that is often considered to be adaptive. But because nonadaptive processes can also have important consequences on the features of genomes, we investigated the relationship of genetic drift and genome size in the phylum Ascomycota using multiple indicators of genetic drift. We detected a complex relationship between geneti...

We propose a method (“FONN”) for F0 contour generation for text-to-speech synthesis. Training speech is automatically segmented into left-headed feet, annotated with syllable start/end times, foot position in the sentence, and the number of syllables in the foot. During training, we fit a superpositional intonation model comprising accent curves associated with feet and phrase curves. We propos...

The objective of this work was to generate drift curves from pesticide applications on coffee plants and to compare them with two European drift‐prediction models. The used methodology is based on the ISO 22866 standard. The experimental design was a randomized complete block with ten replicates in a 2x20 split‐plot arrangement. The evaluated factors were: two types of nozzles (hollow cone with...

the main purpose of this study is landslide hazard assessment the ziarat watershed (golestan province) using information value and lnrf models within geographic information. at first stage, a landslide inventory map was prepared in the study area using earlier reports and aerial photographs, and a total of 50 landslides was mapped and out of which 35 (70%) were randomly selected for building la...

We consider hazard (mortality) rates in heterogeneous populations consisting of ordered (in the defined stochastic sense) subpopulations. This setting can be interpreted via the fixed frailty models with one or more frailty parameters. The shape of the hazard rate is of main interest in this paper. Specifically, the deceleration and leveling off in the hazard rates (mortality plateaus) are disc...

Increasing access to incredibly large, nonstationary datasets and corresponding demands to analyse these data has led to the development of new online algorithms for performing machine learning on data streams. An important feature of real-world data streams is " concept drift, " whereby the distributions underlying the data can change arbitrarily over time. The presence of concept drift in a d...

BACKGROUND In Impedance Microbiology, the time during which the measuring equipment is connected to the bipolar cells is rather long, usually between 6 to 24 hrs for microorganisms with duplication times in the order of less than one hour and concentrations ranging from 10(1) to 10(7) [CFU/ml]. Under these conditions, the electrode-electrolyte interface impedance may show a slow drift of about ...