This retrospective case-control study assessed human papillomavirus 16 (HPV16) viral load and E2/E6 ratio as risk markers for cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN) ≥2 lesions in HPV16-positive women in a routine liquid-based cytology setting. Triplex quantitative PCR for HPV16 E6, E2, and β-globin was done to determine the HPV16 load and the E2/E6 ratio, as a surrogate marker for integration...

In this paper, we present a word counting method that enables speech recognition systems to perform reliable barge-in detection and also make a fast and accurate determination of end of speech. This is achieved by examining partial recognition hypotheses and imposing certain “word stability” criteria. Typically, a voice activity detector is used for both barge-in detection and end of speech det...

We demo an online system that tracks the availability of over four-hundred public SPARQL endpoints and makes up-to-date results available to the public. Our demo currently focuses on how often an endpoint is online/offline, but we plan to extend the system to collect metrics about available meta-data descriptions, SPARQL features supported, and performance for generic queries.

The 6-Minute Walk Distance (6-MWD) has been the most utilized endpoint for judging the efficacy of pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) therapy in clinical trials conducted over the past two decades. Despite its simplicity, widespread use in recent trials and overall prognostic value, the 6-MWD has often been criticized over the past several years and pleas from several PAH experts have emerge...

the study was carried out to develop an efficient approach for prediction the genotoxicity of carbon nanotubes. the experimental data on the bacterial reverse mutation test (ta100) on multi-walled carbon nanotubes (mwcnts) was collected from the literature and examined as an endpoint. by means of the optimal descriptors calculated with the monte carlo method a mathematical model of the endpoint...

We investigate helicity amplitudes (HAs) of A→BC-type decays for arbitrary spin towards the kinematic endpoint. show that HAs are proportional to product Clebsch-Gordan coefficients (CGC) and velocity a non-negative power. The latter can be zero in which case HA is non-vanishing at At endpoint explicit breaking rotational symmetry, through external momenta, restored findings interpreted as spec...