Current SQL aggregation functions have evident limitations for computing percentages, for which this paper proposes two SQL aggregation functions. The two novel aggregation functions are easy to use, which have wide applicability and can be efficiently evaluated. They may be used as a framework to study percentage queries and to generate efficient SQL code. Experiments compare our proposed perc...

AIMS To assess the reliability of percentage ideal weight for height (%WFH) as a measure in children. METHODS Forty two dietitians calculated %WFH of six children. Eleven of the 42 repeated the calculations. RESULTS Interexaminer estimates varied by 16.5 to 40 percentage points (mean 27.8). Intraexaminer variability was also large. CONCLUSIONS %WFH is an unreliable measure of nutritional ...

Studies of expressive speech have shown that discrete emotions such as anger, fear, joy, and sadness can be accurately communicated, also cross-culturally, and that each emotion is associated with reasonably specific acoustic characteristics [8]. However, most previous research has been conducted on acted emotions. These certainly have something in common with naturally occurring emotions but m...

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The ratio of the mean systolic transaortic valvular gradient to the mean systolic left ventricular pressure times 100 yields a percentage that represents the portion of left ventricular pressure-volume work per stroke lost because of outflow-tract obstruction. The percentage of the left ventricular stroke work loss and the area of the aortic orifice have been estimated in 49 patients with aorti...

Degenerative aortic stenosis, characterized by narrowing of the exit of the left ventricle of the heart, has become the most common valvular heart disease in the elderly. The aim of this study was to investigate the microRNA (miRNA) signature in degenerative AS. Through microarray analysis, we identified the miRNA expression signature in the tissue samples from healthy individuals (n = 4) and p...