PURPOSE To investigate the accuracy of laboratory results of urine samples collected from cotton balls as compared with paired samples collected from catheterization, Preemie Pampers, and Newborn Pampers. METHOD Urine samples were collected from 30 infants by aspirating urine from a cotton ball placed over the meatus. An additional urine sample was obtained from the same infants by aspiration...

This paper proposes a new discriminative training method, called minimum sample risk (MSR), of estimating parameters of language models for text input. While most existing discriminative training methods use a loss function that can be optimized easily but approaches only approximately to the objective of minimum error rate, MSR minimizes the training error directly using a heuristic training p...

This paper proposes a new discriminative training method, called minimum sample risk (MSR), of estimating parameters of language models for text input. While most existing discriminative training methods use a loss function that can be optimized easily but approaches only approximately to the objective of minimum error rate, MSR minimizes the training error directly using a heuristic training p...

Cluster-Sample Methods in Applied Econometrics Author(s): Jeffrey M. Wooldridge Source: The American Economic Review, Vol. 93, No. 2, Papers and Proceedings of the One Hundred Fifteenth Annual Meeting of the American Economic Association, Washington, DC, January 3-5, 2003 (May, 2003), pp. 133-138 Published by: American Economic Association Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3132213 . Acces...

Phlebotomy is often addressed as a crucial process in the pre-analytical phase, in which a large part of laboratory errors take place, but to date there is not yet a consolidated methodological paradigm. Seeking literature, we found 36 suitable investigations issued between 1996 and 2016 (April) dealing with the investigation of pre-analytical factors related to phlebotomy. We found that the la...

The ability to identify the precise time of ovulation is important for women who want to plan conception or practice contraception. Here, we review the current literature on various methods for detecting ovulation including a review of point-of-care device technology. We incorporate an examination of methods to detect ovulation that have been developed and practiced for decades and analyze the ...

We present a technique for simultaneous 3D reconstruction of static regions and rigidly moving objects in a scene. An RGB-D frame is represented as a collection of features, which are points and planes. We classify the features into static and dynamic regions and grow separate maps, static and object maps, for each of them. To robustly classify the features in each frame, we fuse multiple RANSA...

High-dimensional data with a small sample size, such as microarray data and image data, are commonly encountered in some practical problems for which many variables have to be measured but it is too costly or time consuming to repeat the measurements for many times. Analysis of this kind of data poses a great challenge for statisticians. In this paper, we develop a new graphical method for test...

This study investigated the extent of family planning, the methods and contraceptive devices in use and the influence of education on family planning among couples in Nkanu Local Government Area of Enugu State. The study adopted a descriptive survey research design. The population comprises all the married couples in this area. A sample size of six hundred married people was selected for this s...