one is compiling statistics or training predictive algorithms that model the language or attributes in notes. We developed an algorithm to identify and characterize highly similar notes within the Multiparameter Intelligent Monitoring in Intensive Care (MIMIC-III) dataset. We found that there were multiple instances of exact copies, common outputs, and template notes form the public domain MIMI...

The highly neurotropic Borna Disease Virus (BDV), which belongs to the Mononegavirales order--Bornaviridae family--is generally detected using the RT-nested-PCR. If false positive results (often caused by laboratory contaminations) can be avoided, some false negative results which are mostly due to inhibitory effects of some reaction components and/or to sample preparation errors, can occur. Th...

Purpose: To investigate the effect of miR-493-5p in lipopolysaccharide (LPS) -induced ATDC5 chondrogenic cells.
 Methods: The MTT assay was used to determine viability LPS-induced cells. ENCORI (starbase.sysu.edu.cn/) predict target miR-493-5p. Quantitative reverse-transcription-polymerase chain reaction (qRT-PCR) expression controlled cells and treated with various combinations LPS, negat...

In this paper we propose a new approach (based on the Multiple Indicator Multiple Cause (MIMIC) model of Joreskog and Goldberger (1975)) to assess the performance of firms assuming that the „true‟ firm performance is latent but there are many observable indicators of it. In our MIMIC model, the latent firm performance variable is linked with some observed explanatory variables (determinants) li...

The role of microRNAs (miRs) is shown as a biomarker whose expression level changes have been associated with cancer development and progression. Circulating miRNAs have been postulated as biomarkers for breast cancer. Detection and diagnosis of miRNA markers could provide an improved and sensitive method in the clinical application. In this study, we applied and improved the effective approach...

This paper describes MIMIC, an adaptive mixed initiative spoken dialogue system that provides movie showtime information. MIMIC improves upon previous dialogue systems in two respects. First, it employs initiative-oriented strategy adaptation to automatically adapt response generation strategies based on the cumulative effect of information dynamically extracted from user utterances during the ...

This paper introduces a versatile language for specifying facial animations. The language Mimic can be used together with any facial animation system that employs animation parameters varying over time to control the animation. In addition to the automatic alignment of individual actions, the user can fine-tune the temporal alignment of actions relatively to each other. A set of predefined func...