Predisease: When Does it Make Sense?

Predisease: when does it make sense?

Screening often leads to finding conditions that are not at the stage or level that would classify them as disease but, at the same time, are not at a stage or level at which people can be declared entirely disease free. These "in-between" states have sometimes been designated as "predisease." Examples include precancerous lesions, increased intraocular pressure ("preglaucoma"), prediabetes, an...

Transitioning to Digital Radiography – When Does It Make Sense?

The objective of this study was to identify the key issues faced by NDT organizations in their transition from analogue film radiography to digital radiography and to examine under what set of circumstances this transition makes good sense. Application examples of several customers who use flexible storage phosphor plates for computed radiography were studied, looking at how they coped with the...

When Does It Make Sense to Linearly Combine Relevance Scores?

Sense tagging: does it make sense?

Sense tagging is probably one of the challenges that corpus linguists have to face in the near future. So far, computerisation of this task has yielded very modest results despite numerous efforts, and sense tagging is turning out to be a touchy task. Difficulties stem from various sources, extracting disambiguating information from the context. However, one of the main problems that lies upstr...

When Does Unequal Power-loading Make Sense?

In Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) unequal power-loading, i.e. water-filling, is used to selectively assign power to each subcarrier, thus maximizing the capacity for a fixed power-budget. Unequal power-loading is used successfully in applications such as digital subscriber lines (DSL), where the channel effectively acts as a time-invariant low-pass filter. In such conditions,...