BACKGROUND Thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) is used to detect primary hypo- and hyperthyroidism. Current guidelines for TSH assays recommend a functional sensitivity of < or =0.02 mIU/L. The protocol for determining the functional sensitivity of TSH assays specifies analyses of serum samples with two reagent lots over a 6- to 8-week period. METHODS We determined the functional sensitivities ...

We present a suite of software for the complete and easy deposition of NMR data to the PDB and BMRB. This suite uses the CCPN framework and introduces a freely downloadable, graphical desktop application called CcpNmr Entry Completion Interface (ECI) for the secure editing of experimental information and associated datasets through the lifetime of an NMR project. CCPN projects can be created wi...

INTRODUCTION Listeria monocytogenes is an important foodborne pathogen and the 4b serotype is responsible for many cases of human listeriosis reported in Brazil. Several listeriosis outbreaks worldwide have involved a small number of well-defined clonal groups, designated as epidemic clones (ECs). METHODOLOGY We studied 71 strains of serotype 4b, including 25 isolates from human cases of list...

This paper establishes economic complexity as a powerful predictor of environmental attitudes. While the index (ECI) has been associated with series outcomes, yet there not link in literature between ECI and research pushes forward hypothesis that shapes cultural values beliefs. The method used is multilevel empirical analysis associates aggregate ECI, at country level, individual responses rel...

Abstract Although pituitary adenomas (PAs) are common intracranial tumors, literature evaluating the utility of comorbidity indices for predicting perioperative complications in patients undergoing surgery remains limited, thereby hindering development complex models that aim to identify high-risk patient populations. Accordingly, we utilized comparative modeling strategies evaluate predictive ...

In this paper we describe the contents and the method of production of the ACL European Corpus Initiative Multilingual Corpus 1 (ECI/MC1). This is a large multilingual electronic text corpus, containing 97 million words in 27 (mainly European) languages. It is available cheaply on CDROM. Most of the texts in the corpus are marked up using a fully-validated SGML document type description based o...

In this note we identify and clarify a confusion that has arisen in the literature about the exact relationship between unitary and collective models and what enters the Pareto weight and the sharing function. We suggest that we should denote as ‘unitary’ any model that leads to outcomes that satisfy the Slutsky conditions whether or not these outcomes depend on distribution factors. In particu...