OBJECTIVE The aim of this article is to develop the best first-trimester screening model for preeclampsia (PE) based on maternal characteristics, biophysical parameters, and angiogenic factors in a low-risk population. METHODS A prospective cohort of 9462 pregnancies undergoing first-trimester screening is used. Logistic regression predictive models were developed for early and late PE (cut-o...

Dublin City University (DCU) and University of Tampere (UTA) participated in ImageCLEF 2007 photographic retrieval task with several monolingual and bilingual runs. The approach was language independent with text retrieval utilizing fuzzy s-gram query translation and combined with visual retrieval. Data fusion was achieved through unsupervised query-time weight generation approaches. The baseli...

University of Tampere (UTA) and Swedish Institute of Computer Science (SICS) joined forces in a CLEF-IP experiment where a simple automatic query generation approach was initially tested. For two topics, the extracted query words were compared to query keys selected by three human experts to see whether the automatic key word extraction algorithms seem to be able to extract relevant words from ...

Blood flow assessment employing Doppler techniques is a useful procedure in pregnancy evaluation, as it may predict pregnancy disorders coursing with increased uterine vascular impedance, as pre-eclampsia. While the local causes are unknown, emphasis has been put on reactive oxygen species (ROS) excessive production. As NADPH oxidase (NOX) is a ROS generator, it is hypothesized that combining D...

We present a new model of natural language processing in which natural language parsing and generation are strongly interleaved tasks. Interleaving of parsing and generation is important if we assume that natural language understanding and production are not only performed in isolation but also work together to obtain subsentential interactions in text revision or dialog systems. The core of th...

Previous studies have reported that poor posture can induce various musculoskeletal disorders. Recently, in children has become a problem. This study aimed to determine the characteristics of sagittal spinal alignment standing and sitting positions elementary school students how changes from position. Moreover, it clarifies (hyperkyphosis) position affects posture. was conducted among 83 studen...

wastewater planning management is a complex problem involving agricultural, rural and industrial interests. in countries facing rapid population growth, identifying methods that can allow them to take good decisions among several competitive alternatives is of utmost importance. the purpose of this paper is to present a methodology for a wastewater planning management system using a multi-c...