Load profiling refers to a procedure which leads to the formulation of daily load curve clusters based on the similarity of the curves shapes. This paper focuses on the investigation of the consumption patterns of an existing high voltage industrial consumer. The profiling process involves stages like the normalization of the recorded load data, the utilization of pattern recognition algorithms...

Treatment of chronic hepatitis C is still unspecific. However, there is great expectancy concerning the new pegylated interferons. As there has been much controversy about the best parameters to determine whether treatment is effective, we analyzed several criteria currently used for evaluation, including serum alanine aminotransferase (ALT) normalization, viral load reduction and improvement o...

the aim of this critical appraisal and hazards of surface electromyography (semg) is to enhance the data acquisition quality in voluntary but complex movements, sport and exercise in particular. the methodological and technical registration strategies deal with telemetry and online data acquisition, the placement of the detection electrodes and the choice of the most adequate normalization mode...

BACKGROUND Different technologies, such as quantitative real-time PCR or microarrays, have been developed to measure microRNA (miRNA) expression levels. Quantification of miRNA transcripts implicates data normalization using endogenous and exogenous reference genes for data correction. However, there is no consensus about an optimal normalization strategy. The choice of a reference gene remains...