Inflammation influences cancer development and progression, and a low lymphocyte to monocyte ratio (LMR) has been reported to be a poor prognostic indicator in several malignancies. Here we quantify the prognostic impact of this biomarker and assess its consistency in various cancers. Eligible studies were retrieved from PubMed, Embase and Web of Science databases. Overall survival (OS) was the...

Algorithms for locomotion mode recognition (LMR) based on surface electromyography and mechanical sensors have recently been developed and could be used for the neural control of powered prosthetic legs. However, the variations in input signals, caused by physical changes at the sensor interface and human physiological changes, may threaten the reliability of these algorithms. This study aimed ...

In this paper we present a Two-Phase LMR-RC Tagging scheme to perform Chinese word segmentation. In the Regular Tagging phase, Chinese sentences are processed similar to the original LMR Tagging. Tagged sentences are then passed to the Correctional Tagging phase, in which the sentences are re-tagged using extra information from the first round tagging results. Two training methods, Separated Mo...

Two existing speech conversion algorithms were modified and used to enhance alaryngeal speech. The modifications were aimed at reducing spectral distortion (bandwidth increase) in a vector-quantization (VQ) based system and the spectral discontinuity in a linear multivariate regression (LMR) based system. Spectral distortion was compensated for by formant enhancement using chirp z-transform and...

Current wireless sensor network routing protocols are still struggling to find valid paths between source and destination, and multipath routing for fault tolerance is quite a new research area and studied insufficiently. The multipath routing techniques designed for ad hoc network do not apply to the sensor network due to the lack of global ID in sensor networks. In this paper, we propose a no...

Within the last few years, laser magnetic resonance (LMR) has emerged as a powerful technique for the detection of transient species in the gas phase and the study of their rotational spectra. The sensitivity of this method is con­ siderably higher than those of most competing techniques, such as conventional optical and microwave spectroscopy and gas-phase EPR, while the resolution attainable ...

PURPOSE Image non-uniformity may cause substantial problems in magnetic resonance (MR) imaging especially when a 3-T scanner is used. We evaluated the effect of image non-uniformity correction in gadolinium ethoxybenzyl-diethylenetriamine pentaacetic acid (Gd-EOB-DTPA)-enhanced MR imaging using a 3-T scanner. METHODS Two commercially available methods for image non-uniformity correction, surf...

Background Neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio (NLR) and lymphocyte-to-monocyte ratio (LMR) have been demonstrated to be prognostic biomarkers in various cancers, including non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). However, little has been known about these two ratios for a specific population of NSCLC harboring active epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) mutation. Methods We retrospectively reviewed...

Chronic inflammation plays an important role in tumor progression. The aim of this analysis was to evaluate whether inflammatory biomarkers such as the Glasgow prognostic score (GPS), the neutrophil-lymphocyte ratio (NLR), the platelet-lymphocyte ratio (PLR), and the lymphocyte-monocyte ratio (LMR) could predict the prognosis of nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC). In this analysis, pretreatment GPS...

We investigated retrospectively whether immunologic markers from a complete blood count (CBC) are associated with the responsiveness to preoperative chemoradiotherapy (PCRT) and oncologic outcomes in 984 patients with locally advanced rectal cancer (LARC) who also underwent radical surgery from 2005 to 2013. CBC parameters including the neutrophil to lymphocyte ratio (NLR), lymphocyte to monocy...