Abstract. A better understanding of the reasons why hydrological model performance is unsatisfying represents a crucial part meaningful evaluation. However, current evaluation efforts are mostly based on aggregated efficiency measures such as Kling–Gupta (KGE) or Nash–Sutcliffe (NSE). These provide relative gradation performance. Especially in case weak it important to identify different errors...

Purpose This paper proposes a progressive, multi-level framework for diagnosing maintenance performance: rapid performance health checks of key different equipment groups and end-to-end process diagnostics to further locate potential issues. A question-based evaluation approach is introduced support the selection derivation case-specific indicators based on diagnostic aspects. Design/methodolog...

BACKGROUND Key to the control of pandemic influenza are surveillance systems that raise alarms rapidly and sensitively. In addition, they must minimise false alarms during a normal influenza season. We develop a method that uses historical syndromic influenza data from the existing surveillance system 'SERVIS' (Scottish Enhanced Respiratory Virus Infection Surveillance) for influenza-like illne...

the arthroscopic study of knee joint is of outstanding interest in assessment of knee complaints. the present article describes the results of arthroscopic examination of 100 patients (mean age 29.4 years 82% male) evaluated from 1996 to 1997 in imam khomeini hospital of tehran. sport injury was the most prevalent cause of referral (40%). the 2 most frequent complaints were knee pain (94%) and ...

BACKGROUND Rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) have been commercialized in order to help physicians in dengue diagnosis. Until recently, only blood samples were used for those tests but it has been shown in several studies that urine and saliva can also be employed for dengue diagnosis. RDTs for the detection of NS1 antigen and anti-dengue IgG, IgM and IgA in urine and saliva specimens have thus been...

PURPOSE To assess the performance of radiologists in the detection of masses and microcalcification clusters on digitized mammograms by using different computer-assisted detection (CAD) cuing environments. MATERIALS AND METHODS Two hundred nine digitized mammograms depicting 57 verified masses and 38 microcalcification clusters in 85 positive and 35 negative cases were interpreted independent...

Single amino acid variations (SAVs) potentially alter biological functions, including causing diseases or natural differences between individuals. Identifying the relationship between a SAV and certain disease provides the starting point for understanding the underlying mechanisms of specific associations, and can help further prevention and diagnosis of inherited disease.We propose PredSAV, a ...