Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) commonly infects the upper respiratory tract (URT) of humans, manifesting with mild cold or flu-like symptoms. However, in infants and elderly, severe disease lower (LRT) often occurs can develop into chronic airway disease. A better understanding how an acute RSV infection transitions to a LRT inflammatory is critically important improve patient care long-term...

Abstract The success of liver transplant (LT) for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is dependent on accurate tumor staging using validated imaging criteria, and adherence to acceptable criteria based size number. Other factors including α-fetoprotein (AFP) response local regional therapy (LRT) have now played a larger role in candidate selection. Tumor downstaging defined as reduction the viable t...

The current study aimed to examine differential item functioning (DIF) of a numerical ability test for Gulf state school students. This examined the DIF items by gender and country using two analysis methods; Likelihood Ratio Test (LRT) Mantel-Haenszel (MH). sample size was 2689 individuals throughout grades 5 6, researchers used MH with SPSS LRT BILOG-MG. classification stability coefficient k...

In the Gaussian sequence model Y=?+?, we study likelihood ratio test (LRT) for testing H0:?=?0 versus H1:??K, where ?0?K, and K is a closed convex set in Rn. particular, show that under null hypothesis, normal approximation holds log-likelihood statistic general pair (?0,K), high-dimensional regime estimation error of associated least squares estimator diverges an appropriate sense. The further...

1 1 Introduction The London bus routes market provides an early example of the use of a combinatorial auction format in public procurement. This market covers about 800 routes serving an area of 1,630 square kilometers and more than 3.5 million passengers per day. It is valued at 600 million Pounds per year (roughly US $900 million). Prior to deregulation, bus services in the Greater London are...

Background/Aim: Modified Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors (mRECIST) were developed to assess the response to treatment in patients with HCC, based on measuring the amount of viable tumor using dynamic imaging (CT/MRI). Our aim to compare the estimated viable HCC after locoregional therapy (LRT) by CT imaging and prior to liver transplant to the histopathological assessment of viable...

The likelihood ratio test (LRT) method is a commonly used method of hypothesis test construction. The intersection-union test (JUT) method is a less commonly used method. We will explore some relationships between these two methods. We show that, under some conditions, both methods yield the same test. But, we also describe conditions under which the size-a JUT is uniformly more powerful than t...