background the use of glycemic thresholds for diabetes diagnosis is controversial. however, no information is available regarding glycemic and glycated hemoglobin (hba1c) thresholds for detecting diabetic retinopathy (dr) in the iranian population. objectives the main purpose of the current investigation was to examine the association of fasting plasma glucose (fpg) and hba1c levels with diabet...

Event detection is an important application in demand-side management. Precise event algorithms can improve the accuracy of non-intrusive load monitoring (NILM) and energy disaggregation models. Existing be divided into four categories: rule-based, statistics-based, conventional machine learning, deep learning. The rule-based approach entails hand-crafted feature engineering carefully calibrate...

PURPOSE To compare the effectiveness of different combinations of social comparison feedback and financial incentives to increase physical activity. DESIGN Randomized trial (Clinicaltrials.gov number, NCT02030080). SETTING Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. PARTICIPANTS Two hundred eighty-six adults. INTERVENTIONS Twenty-six weeks of weekly feedback on team performance compared to the 50th per...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES New US Down syndrome (DS) BMI growth charts were recently published, but their utility in identifying children with excess adiposity or increased cardiometabolic risk (CMR) remains unknown. We sought to compare the ability of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) BMI 85th percentile and DS-specific BMI 85th percentile to identify excess adiposity in chil...

Although the percentile-based control charts are very effective with guaranteed in-control and out-of-control run lengths in statistical process control, they still lack algorithmic (especially) software support. The proposed (pbcc) tool fills this gap. This is freely available implements recent work on individual as well joint charts.

at the highest signal levels, the masking function for the off-frequency condition seems to become more linear. while some basilar membrane data show more linear growth at high levels, others do not. aim of the present study is to assess function of masking at high levels regarding its clinical appearance. in this experiment we evaluated the hearing thresholds of three different signals (wide-b...

OBJECTIVE To examine the association of BMI percentile and change in BMI percentile to change in blood pressure (BP) percentile and development of hypertension (HTN). METHODS This retrospective cohort included 101 606 subjects age 3 to 17 years from 3 health systems across the United States. Height, weight, and BPs were extracted from electronic health records, and BMI and BP percentiles were...