higher in patients with obstructive MGD than in control subjects (P .001, P=.004, P=.001, P .001, P=.001, and P .001, respectively). Both the upper and lower tarsal conjunctival temperatures had a significant negative correlation with the ocular symptom score (R= 0.7325, P .001; R= 0.6356, P .001, respectively), eyelid margin score (R= 0.6126, P .001; R= 0.4707, P=.004, respectively), superfici...

There are large variations in reported diabetes prevalence within United Kingdom (UK) populations. Linear regression was used to investigate whether population characteristics could explain the variation in prevalence between 19 practices with relatively complete diagnostic recording. Population obesity and South Asian ethnicity largely explained observed variation in prevalence (adjusted R2 = ...

It has been shown that the authentication performance of a biometric system is dependent on the models/templates specific to a user. As a result, some users may be more easily recognized or impersonated than others. The various categories of users have been characterized by Doddington et al.(1988). We refer to this unbalanced performance across users as the Doddington’s zoo effect. In the conte...

The Eurofit Special Test is a battery of motor fitness tests resulting from a 10-year project of the Committee of Experts for Sports Research and is comprised of strength, speed, flexibility, and balance. The purpose of this study was to investigate whether the Eurofit Special was able to distinguish variations in functioning among individuals with intellectual disabilities. Significant differe...

MOTIVATION The discovery that copy number variants (CNVs) are widespread in the human genome has motivated development of numerous algorithms that attempt to detect CNVs from intensity data. However, all approaches are plagued by high false discovery rates. Further, because CNVs are characterized by two dimensions (length and intensity) it is unclear how to order called CNVs to prioritize exper...

Tracking of video targets is the process of estimating the current and predicting the future state of a target from a sequence of video sensor measurements. Multitarget video tracking is complicated by the fact that targets can occlude one another and affect video feature measurements in a highly non-linear and difficult to model fashion., Tracking multiple targets that undergo repeated mutual ...

The ability of the model for end-stage liver disease (MELD) score to accurately predict death among liver transplant candidates allows for evaluation of geographic differences in transplant access for patients with similar death risk. Adjusted models of time to transplant and death for adult liver transplant candidates listed between 2002 and 2003 were developed to test for differences in MELD ...