The restoration of normal physical activity is a primary objective of most chronic pain rehabilitative interventions, yet few clinically practical objective measures of activation exist. Actigraphy is one technology that promises to fill this void in the field of pain outcomes assessment. This study evaluates the measurement properties of one of several commercially available actigraphs: the Ac...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the Rheumatoid Arthritis Observation of Biologic Therapy (RABBIT) Risk Score for serious infections in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). METHODS The RABBIT Risk Score for serious infections was developed in 2011 on a cohort of RA patients enrolled in the German biologics register RABBIT between 2001 and 2007. To evaluate this score, we used data from patients enro...

BACKGROUND The Alvarado score is utilized to determine the likelihood of appendicitis based on clinical signs, symptoms, and laboratory results. The goal of this study was to determine whether Alvarado scores can be used to aid in the accurate diagnosis of appendicitis. METHODS Alvarado score evaluations were performed on 300 patients that were referred to or presented to the emergency room w...

Hip dysplasia is an important and complex genetic disease in dogs with both genetic and environmental influences. Since the osteoarthritis that develops is irreversible the only way to improve welfare, through reducing the prevalence, is through genetic selection. This study aimed to evaluate the progress of selection against hip dysplasia, to quantify potential improvements in the response to ...

In this paper we report an experiment of an automated metric used to analyze the grammaticality of machine translation output. The approach (Rajman, Hartley, 2001) is based on the distribution of the linguistic information within a translated text, which is supposed similar between a learning corpus and the translation. This method is quite inexpensive, since it does not need any reference tran...

Position evaluation is a critical component of Go programs. This paper describes both the exact and the heuristic methods for position evaluation that are used in the Go program Explorer, and outlines some requirements for developing better Go evaluation functions in the future.

In this work, we investigate a method for score-informed source separation using Probabilistic Latent Component Analysis (PLCA). We present extensive test results that give an indication of the performance of the method, its strengths and weaknesses. For this purpose, we created a test database that has been made available to the public, in order to encourage comparisons with alternative methods.

OBJECTIVE To compare the observed incidence of mediastinitis and strokes versus the expected incidence according to the NNECDSG score (Northern New England Cardiovascular Disease Study Group) in a population submitted to coronary artery bypass graft surgery. METHODS A retrospective consultation was made of medical records of all patients submitted to isolated CABG from January 1st, 2000 to De...

Information security plays a key role in protection of organization’s assets. There exist a number of standards and guidelines providing huge lists of security controls that, if properly used, might be useful against cyber threats. However, these standards leave the process of controls selection to the organizations. Security manager has to carry out a decision on implementation of security con...