The clumping index (CI) quantifies the foliage grouping within distinct canopies relative to randomly distributed canopies, which plays an important role in vegetation radiative regime. Among structure parameters, global CI map can be retrieved by using multiangle remote sensing observations. bidirectional reflectance distribution function (BRDF)/Albedo product (MCD43) of Moderate-Resolution Im...

PURPOSE To determine the psychometric properties of the Mentoring Competency Assessment (MCA), a 26-item skills inventory that enables research mentors and mentees to evaluate six competencies of mentors: maintaining effective communication, aligning expectations, assessing understanding, addressing diversity, fostering independence, and promoting professional development. METHOD In 2010, inv...

Model credibility index is defined to be a sample size under which the power of rejection equals 0.5. It applies goodness-of-fit testing thinking and uses a one-number summary statistic as an assessment tool in a false model world. The estimation of the model credibility index involves a bootstrap resampling technique. To assess the consistency of the estimator of model credibility index, we in...

Objective To investigate risk factors for advanced melanoma over 50 years of age and to develop validate a new line chart classification system. Methods The SEER database was screened patients diagnosed with from 2010 2019 Cox regression analysis applied select variables affecting patient prognosis. area under curve (AUC), relative operating characteristic (ROC), Consistency index (C-index), de...

Hybrid memory systems consisting of DRAM and Non-Volatile Memory are promising to persist data fast. The index design of existing key-value stores for hybrid memory fails to utilize its specific performance characteristics: fast writes in DRAM, slow writes in NVM, and similar reads in DRAM and NVM. This paper presents HiKV, a persistent key-value store with the central idea of constructing a hy...

In multi-event survival analysis, one aims to predict the probability of multiple different events occurring over some time horizon. One typically assumes that timing is drawn from distribution conditioned on an individual's covariates. However, during training, does not have access this distribution, and natural variation in observed event times makes task prediction challenging, top potential...

Inflationary consistency equations relate the scalar and tensor perturbations. We elucidate the infinite hierarchy of consistency equations of single-field inflation, the first of which is the well-known relation A2T/A 2 S = −nT/2 between the amplitudes and the tensor spectral index. We write a general expression for all consistency equations both to first and second-order in the slow-roll expa...

This study evaluated the correlation and agreement between the Bispectral Index (BIS) or A-line Autoregressive Index (AAI) and a clinical scoring system, the Ramsay Sedation Scale (RSS), in 40 patients after elective cardiac surgery and admission to the intensive care unit. All patients received sedation with propofol according to the study protocol. BIS, AAI and RSS were documented at two diff...

A combination of indirect soil investigation by proximal sensors (PSS), based on geophysical (ARP, EMI), physical (Cone Index –CI– ultrasound penetrometry) and spectrometric (γ-rays) techniques, as well pedological surveys, was applied in the field to assess spatial variability pollution degradation an automobile-battery recycling plant southern Italy. Five homogeneous zones (HZs) were identifi...

Background  Short cervical length (CL) has not been shown to be adequate as a single predictor of spontaneous preterm birth (sPTB) in high-risk pregnancies. Objective  The objective of this study was to evaluate the performance of the mid-trimester cervical consistency index (CCI) to predict sPTB in a cohort of high-risk pregnancies and to compare the results with those obtained with the CL. St...