In the practice guideline “Diagnosis, Management, and Treatment of Hepatitis C: An Update ” (HEPATOLOGY 2009:49 (4): 1335-1374; DOI: 10.1002/hep.22759), two errors have been corrected in the online version. 1. The Treatment Objectives and Outcomes section contained an error which has been corrected to read: “Short-term outcomes can be measured biochemically (normalization of serum ALT levels), ...

This paper presents fusion of two biometric traits, i.e., palmprint and speech signal, at matching score level architecture uses weighted sum of score technique. The features are extracted from the pre-processed palm image and pre-processed speech signal. The features of a query image and speech signal are compared with those of a database images and speech signal to obtain matching scores. The...

Summary: A major challenge in mass-spectrometry-based proteomics is the peptide identification statistics problem. As a tool designed to tackle this issue, RAId deNovo can generate, for a given tandem mass spectrum, the score distribution resulting from scoring all possible peptides under a certain class of scoring functions. This valuable information may aid development of a better measure for...

Short note: This is a supplementary text for the manuscript with the same title. The additions are the parts that handle stability under randomizations, pairwise p-value comparison of GSZ with other tested scoring functions, the most of the materials and methods, and derivation of E(S|N) and D(S|N) required for the derivation of the GSZ-score. This text represent five major findings: (a) Stabil...

Obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) is associated with abnormalities in autonomic stress tests, which are tests of cardiovascular response in the autonomic nervous system (ANS). The level of abnormality has been related to the level of overnight arterial oxygen saturation (Sa,O2). We have studied ANS function pre- and post-treatment with nasal continuous positive airway pressure (nCPAP) in six males...

since many time series are not normal, it is required to normalize data by transformation functions prior to any analysis and modeling. in this study, the next month rainfall of abadeh county station was predicted using the average monthly rainfall, minimum and maximum temperatures and minimum and maximum humidity as inputs of mlp network, both normally and raw, at period 1976 to 2013. after sc...

URL normalization is a process of transforming URL strings into canonical form. Through this process, duplicate URL representations for web pages can be reduced significantly. There are a number of normalization methods. In this paper, we describe four metrics for evaluating normalization methods. The reliability and consistency of a URL is also considered in our evaluation. With the metrics pr...

The informal nature of social media text renders it very difficult to be automatically processed by natural language processing tools. Text normalization, which corresponds to restoring the non-standard words to their canonical forms, provides a solution to this challenge. We introduce an unsupervised text normalization approach that utilizes not only lexical, but also contextual and grammatica...

BACKGROUND Structure-based virtual screening techniques can help to identify new lead structures and complement other screening approaches in drug discovery. Prior to docking, the data (protein crystal structures and ligands) should be prepared with great attention to molecular and chemical details. RESULTS Using a subset of 18 diverse targets from the recently introduced DEKOIS 2.0 benchmark...

This paper deals with a procedure to compensate for mismatched recording conditions in forensic speaker recognition, using a statistical score normalization. Bayesian interpretation of the evidence in forensic automatic speaker recognition depends on three sets of recordings in order to perform forensic casework: reference (R) and control (C) recordings of the suspect, and a potential populatio...