Objective Identify studies that made adjustments to the equation of Trauma and Injury Severity Score (TRISS) and compared the discriminatory ability of both modified and original equations. Method An integrative review of studies published between 1990 and 2014 using the following databases: LILACS, MEDLINE, PubMed and SciELO, based on searches using the term "TRISS". Results 32 studies were in...

The most common and cheap indirect technique to measure relative humidity is by using psychrometer based on a dry and a wet temperature sensor. In this study, the measurement uncertainty of relative humidity was evaluated by this indirect method with some empirical equations for calculating relative humidity. Among the six equations tested, the Penman equation had the best predictive ability fo...

We aimed to develop a BIA equation to predict fat free mass (FFM) using deuterium oxide (H2O) dilution as the reference method for children. Seventy seven children (36 boys and 41 girls), aged 6 to 24 month participated in the study. The best fi t FFM prediction equation included weight, sex and length2/resistance (adjusted R2=0.83 and root mean square error of 0.49 kg). Applying »leave-one-out...

The impact of blast-driven shocks on the safety and stability of the underground coal mines has been well established. The seismic imperfections resulting from blasting depend on the total explosive energy released during blasting and the closeness of the development tunnel face to the stope face. Also, the quality of the rock mass wherein the whole stope face is located might pose considerable...

We have developed an analytical formula for the cure progress of epoxy systems as a function of both time t and temperature T. Complex viscosity h* or the storage modulus G' are used as the measures of the cure progress. The equation is based on the shape of the isothermal viscosity vs. time curves typically found for thermoset systems; temperature dependence of the isothermal parameters is est...

The Budyko equation has achieved iconic status in hydrology for its concise and accurate representation of the relationship between annual evapotranspiration and long-term-average water and energy balance at catchment scales. Accelerating anthropogenic land-use and climate change have sparked a renewed interest in predictive applications of the Budyko equation to analyze future scenarios import...

Predictive functional control and multivariate PI predictive functional control is presented based on state space equation for non-linear, fast time-varying, multivariable coupling near-space vehicle attitude control system. Transforming nonlinear optimal problems into online optimization in the linear time-invariant systems and solve the control law in a rolling way. Lyapunov’s second stabilit...

Partial Least Squares Path Modelling (PLSPM) is a popular technique for estimating structural equation models in the social sciences, and is frequently presented as an alternative to covariance-based analysis as being especially suited for predictive modeling. While existing research on PLSPM has focused on its use in causalexplanatory modeling, this paper follows two recent papers at ICIS 2012...

[Purpose] The purpose of this study was to confirm the accuracy of a revised method for predicting the Functional Independence Measure (FIM) at discharge when stroke patients are first admitted to a rehabilitation hospital. [Subjects and Methods] The predictive equation with logarithmic trend line was calculated based on the total score of the FIM at admission and discharge in 93 patients with ...

objective: to determine the diagnostic value of serum white blood cell (wbc) count, fever (>38˚c) and wbc rise (>10%) for bacterial meningitis in patients with severe traumatic brain injury (tbi). m et h o d : this cross-sectional study was conducted in shahid rajaei hospital affiliated with shiraz university of medical sciences during a 1-year period from 2013 to 2014. we included consecutivel...