This record linkage study aims to examine the coding concordance of delivery outcome and discharge status between the New South Wales (NSW) Midwives Data Collection (MDC) and Admitted Patients Data Collection (APDC) as well as factors that contribute to hospital births not being recorded in the APDC. Births recorded in the APDC and MDC datasets for the calendar year 2005 were used for analysis....

AIM Multidisciplinary care (MDC) for patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) may help to optimize disease care and improve clinical outcomes. Our study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of pre-end-stage renal disease (ESRD) patients under MDC and usual care in Taiwan. METHOD In this 3-year retrospective observational study, we recruited 822 ESRD subjects, aged 18 years and older, initiat...

Multiple Description Coding (MDC) has been paid more and more attention for its efficiency in solving packet losing problems during transmission, especially for wireless transmission. We introduce a new algorithm considers both the efficiency of the transmission and security of the original information. The performance of the proposed watermarked MDC frame shows its efficiency.

Abstract In multi-dimensional classification (MDC), the semantics of objects are characterized by multiple class spaces from different dimensions. Most MDC approaches try to explicitly model dependencies among in output space. contrast, recently proposed feature augmentation strategy, which aims at manipulating space, has also been shown be an effective solution for MDC. However, existing only ...

Monophosphoryl lipid A (MPL) is a non-toxic TLR4 ligand, derived from Salmonella minnesota R595 (Re) lipopolysaccharide (LPS) by chemical modification. It is clinically used as an adjuvant for cancer treatment (Fendrix, Ceravix) and allergen specific immunotherapy (Pollinex Quattro, ORALVAC). Nevertheless, reports on the mechanism of adjuvant activity are limited. The aim of this study was to c...

BACKGROUND The Beck Depression Inventory II (BDI-II) and the Taiwan Geriatric Depression Scale (TGDS) are self-report scales used for assessing depression in patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) and geriatric people. The minimal detectable change (MDC) represents the least amount of change that indicates real difference (i.e., beyond random measurement error) for a single subject. Our aim was...

BACKGROUND Global DNA hypomethylation may result in chromosomal instability and oncogene activation, and as a surrogate of systemic methylation activity, may be associated with breast cancer risk. METHODS Samples and data were obtained from women with incident early-stage breast cancer (I-IIIa) and women who were cancer free, frequency matched on age and race. In preliminary analyses, genomic...

BACKGROUND Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a fatal motor neuron disease that typically results in death within 2-5 years of initial symptom onset. Multidisciplinary ALS clinics (MDCs) have been established to provide specialty care to people living with the disease. OBJECTIVE To estimate the proximity of ALS prevalence cases to the nearest MDC in the US to help evaluate one aspect of a...

This paper discusses, in a multiclass classification setting, the issue of choice so-called categorical classifier, which is procedure or criterion that transforms probabilities produced by probabilistic classifier into single category class. The standard Bayes Classifier (BC), but it has some limits with rare classes. studies performance BC versus two alternatives, are Max Difference (MDC) and...

BACKGROUND Breakdown of tolerance against the commensal microflora is believed to be a major factor in the pathogenesis of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). Dendritic cells (DC) have been implicated in this process in various animal models, but data on human DC in IBD are very limited. AIM To characterise plasmacytoid DC (PDC) and myeloid DC (MDC) in patients with active versus inactive IBD a...