BACKGROUND The biologically active component of a hormone is the unbound or free fraction. Changes in cortisol-binding protein could give misleading results if only total cortisol is measured for the interpretation of dynamic function tests. METHODS This study aimed to measure serum free cortisol using a steady-state gel-filtration method and then to evaluate the correlation between the serum...

Andre Elisseeff2 ae l@ zurich.ibm .com 2 Data Analytics Group IBM Research GmbH 8803 Rlischlikon, Switzerland Causal structure-discovery techniques usually assume that all causes of more than one variable are observed. This is the so-called causal sufficiency assumption. In practice, it is untestable, and often violated. In this paper, we present an efficient causal structure-learning algorithm...

In order to study giant resonance induced by Li scattering, optical model (OM) analysis of Li elastic scattering is necessary to get the optical parameters. OM has been widely used to analyze the heavy ion scattering data in term of empirical Woods-Saxon (W-S) parameterizations of the nuclear potential. However, it was found that a satisfactory microscopic understanding of heavy ion scattering ...

This paper presents an method for heat rate monitoring of power plants which employs a true “systems approach”. As an ultimate monitoring parameter, derived from Second Law concepts, it quantifies system losses in terms of fuel consumption by individual components and processes. If electricity is to be produced with the least un-productive fuel consumption, then thermodynamic losses must be und...

La evaluación del desempeño de carteras es una parte muy importante en el análisis gestión las inversiones y, generalmente, se realiza evaluando los rendimientos ajustados al riesgo. El presente trabajo analiza comportamiento fondos comunes inversión (FCI) renta variable Argentina que tienen como benchmark financiero índice ROFEX 20 durante años 2019 y 2020, empleando indicadores referencia Alp...

For many-body methods such as MCSCF and CASSCF, in which the number of one-electron orbitals is optimized independent basis set used, there are no problems with using plane-wave sets. However, for currently used quantum computing select configuration interaction (CI) coupled cluster (CC) methods, it necessary to have a virtual space that able capture significant amount electron-electron correla...

There is evidence for cultural variation in the foods that may be craved. We have designed and tested, in a sample of 234 participants, a UK-specific version of the Food Craving Inventory. A four-factor structure comprising of sweet foods, fast foods, high fat, and complex carbohydrates was extracted. The final scale was analogous with the original US scale, and shared similar associations with...

Man-in-The-Middle (MiTM) attacks present numerous threats to a smart grid. In MiTM attack, an intruder embeds itself within conversation between two devices either eavesdrop or impersonate one of the devices, making it appear be normal exchange information. Thus, can perform false data injection (FDI) and command (FCI) that compromise power system operations, such as state estimation, economic ...