BACKGROUND Endothelial dysfunction plays an important role in the pathophysiology of sepsis. As previously reported, the serum thrombomodulin is elevated in diseases associated with endothelial injury. OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to investigate the association of serum thrombomodulin level in different pediatric sepsis syndromes and evaluate the relationship with disease severity and ...

Many Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD) algorithms do not take into account the morphological variations in the language. However, as Indian languages are highly inflected languages, we investigate whether morphology must be taken into account for WSD for Indian languages, as they are very rich in morphology. This paper analyses the influence of morphology in WSD for Tamil. We believe our results ...

In this paper we study unsupervised word sense disambiguation (WSD) based on sense definition. We learn low-dimensional latent semantic vectors of concept definitions to construct a more robust sense similarity measure wmfvec. Experiments on four all-words WSD data sets show significant improvement over the baseline WSD systems and LDA based similarity measures, achieving results comparable to ...

BACKGROUND Genetic factors, a diet rich in fat and sugar, and an impaired intestinal barrier function are critical in the development of nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH). The nonessential amino acid glutamine (Gln) has been suggested to have protective effects on intestinal barrier function but also against the development of liver diseases of various etiologies. OBJECTIVE The effect of or...

We evaluated the tendency of the plasma concentration and procalcitonin (PCT) clearance (PCTc) to act as biomarkers of prognosis in patients with severe sepsis and septic shock. From 2011 to 2013, we prospectively analyzed patients with sepsis admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU). The serum PCT was evaluated at the time of sepsis diagnosis and again after 48 h (day 3) and 96 h (day 5). PCT...

Word sense disambiguation (WSD) is described as the job of searching the sense of a word in a situation. WSD is a core problem in many tasks related to language processing. It is aggravated by make use of in several critical utilization like Part-of-Speech tagging, Machine Translation, Information retrieval, etc. Different topics such as ambiguity, evaluation, scalability and diversity cause ch...

The topic of a document can prove to be useful information for Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD) since certain meanings tend to be associated with particular topics. This paper presents an LDA-based approach for WSD, which is trained using any available WSD system to establish a sense per (Latent Dirichlet allocation based) topic. The technique is tested using three unsupervised and one supervise...

Objective: To evaluate the prognostic performance of lactate–albumin difference (LAD), maximum lactate levels, and Sequential Organ Failure Assessment (SOFA) score taken on first day in critically ill patients with sepsis, in-hospital mortality 90-day survival.Patients Methods: Data from Medical Information Mart for Intensive Care III (MIMIC III) version 1.4 were evaluated retrospectively. The ...