Eliciting numerical estimates from people is a central challenge for psychology. Cognitive biases can affect estimates, making it challenging to measure what people know or believe. We present a novel elicitation method, More-Or-Less Elicitation (MOLE) that, rather than having people make a single, absolute judgment, asks for repeated, relative judgments across the range of possible estimates a...

1.1 How define a SIM? According to FDA guideline (Guidance for Industry, Analytical Procedures and Methods Validation, FDA, 2000), a Stability Indicating Method (SIM) is defined as a validated analytical procedure that accurate and precisely measure active ingredients (drug substance or drug product) free from process impurities, excipients and degradation products. The FDA recommends that all ...

PURPOSE To identify the accuracy of postoperative implant alignment in minimally invasive surgery total knee arthroplasty (MIS-TKA), based on the degree of varus deformity. MATERIALS AND METHODS The research examined 627 cases of MIS-TKA from November 2005 to December 2007. The cases were categorized according to the preoperative degree of varus deformity in the knee joint in order to compare...

BACKGROUND Humans host individually unique skin microbiota, suggesting that microbiota traces transferred from skin to surfaces could serve as forensic markers analogous to fingerprints. While it is known that individuals leave identifiable microbiota traces on surfaces, it is not clear for how long these traces persist. Moreover, as skin and surface microbiota change with time, even persistent...

a simple and rapid stability indicating method based on capillary zone electrophoresis has been developed and validated for the analysis of buserelin (bus). the best separations were achieved by using a bare fused silica capillary (75 m i.d.; 65.5 cm total, 57.0 cm effective length), phosphate buffer (ph = 3.00; 26.4 mm), at 35 °c. the sample was hydrodynamically injected at 50 mbar for 5 seco...

Invariant numerical schemes possess properties that may overcome the numerical properties of most of classical schemes. When they are constructed with moving frames, invariant schemes can present more stability and accuracy. The cornerstone is to select relevant moving frames. We present a new algorithmic process to do this. The construction of invariant schemes consists in parametrizing the sc...

and Applied Analysis 3 on the whole space H, is a bounded operator. Here, I is the identity operator. The following operators D ( I τA τA 2 2 ) , G ( I − τ 2A 2 ) , P ( I τ 2 A ) , R I τB −1, Tτ ( I B−1A ( I τA τ 2 P−2 ) K ( I − R2N−1 ) GKP−2R2N−1 −GKP−2 2I τB R [ n ∑ i 1 αi ( I ( λi − [ λi τ ] τ ) A ) D − λi/τ u0 ])−1

For optical waveguides with high index-contrast and sharp corners, existing full-vectorial mode solvers including those based on boundary integral equations typically have only second or third order of accuracy. In this paper, a new full-vectorial waveguide mode solver is developed based on a new formulation of boundary integral equations and the so-called Neumann-to-Dirichlet operators for sub...

Abstract Aiming at the problems of low accuracy, long time required, and large memory consumption traditional data mining methods, a local discrete text method in high-dimensional space is proposed. First all, through preparation preprocessing step, we obtain minimum divergence maximize dimension to meet demand for space; second, use information gain mine pre-processed establish an objective fu...