this study was conducted to determine regression equations for the prediction metabolizable energy value corrected for zero nitrogen retention (amen) in 12 wheat cultivars (mahdavi, chamran, sabalan, sepahan, sivand, alamoot, sholeh, neishaboor, pishtaz, bahar, shiraz and shahpasand) cultured in alborz province of iran. chromic oxide marker bioassay was used to determine wheat cultivars nitroge...

Background: Various bedside screening tests are employed for the prediction of difficult intubation. In this study, we compared 4 bedside tests viz. the Modified Mallampati Test (MMT), the Thyromental Distance (TMD) measurement, the Upper Lip Bite Test (ULBT) and the Neck Circumference (NC) measurement in terms of Sensitivity, Specificity, Positive Predictive Value and Negative Predictive Value...

background: breast cancer is the most common type of cancer in women demanding time and accurate diagnosis to take remedial measures to treat. objective: comparing the diagnostic capability of the computer regulation thermography (crt), as a novel and safe dignostic procedure, with common clinical examination and imaging methods including sonography and mammography for diagnosing breast cancer ...

We study two issues which could affect the performance of value prediction on wide-issue ILP processors. One is the large number of accesses to the value prediction tables needed in each machine cycle, and the other is the delay required to update stale values in the value prediction tables. We introduce a prediction value cache (PVC) which augments the instruction cache to hold the prediction ...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE The role of MR imaging in predicting underlying intracranial atherosclerotic stenosis before endovascular stroke therapy has not been studied. Our aim was to determine the diagnostic value of the negative susceptibility vessel sign on T2*-weighted gradient-echo MR imaging for predicting underlying intracranial atherosclerotic stenosis in patients with acute MCA occlusion....

Comment Our patient showed a remarkable initial response to high dose intravenous gammaglobulin. The effect on his arthritis was transient, but most of the systemic symptoms were appreciably reduced or absent during the first six months of treatment. A relapse occurred four months after gammaglobulin was stopped, but renewed administration induced the same beneficial effects as before. The mech...

in this paper, linear data envelopment analysis models are used to estimate markowitz efficient frontier. conventional dea models assume non-negative values for inputs and outputs. however, variance is the only variable in these models that takes non-negative values. therefore, negative data models which the risk of the assets had been used as an input and expected return was the output are uti...

Introduction FINDRISC (Finnish Diabetes Risk Score) is a risk assessment tool widely used for the prediction of the development of type 2 diabetes (T2DM), combining a questionnaire with simple anthropometric measurements to identify patients at risk of developing diabetes, with increasing score (0-26) signifying increased risk. A cut off score of 9 has previously been proposed (with drug-treate...

OBJECTIVE To examine whether we could predict myocardial ischemia when coronary artery calcification is detected by non-gated multidetector CT in patients with suspected ischemic heart disease. METHODS Eighty-three patients suspected of having ischemic heart disease (55 men, 28 women; age range 36-83 years; mean age 68 years) underwent multidetector CT and T1-201 single photon emission comput...

Early detection of extravasation is important, but conventional methods of detection lack objectivity and reliability. This study evaluated the predictive validity of thermography for identifying extravasation during intravenous antineoplastic therapy. Of 257 patients who received chemotherapy through peripheral veins, extravasation was identified in 26. Thermography was performed every 15 to 3...