objective: this study aimed to assess the value of chlamydia trachomatis (c.trachomatis) antibodytiter test in prediction of  tubal damage. materials and methods : in this case-control study we enrolled50 women with tubal factor infertility (proven by laparoscopy after hysterosalpingography) and 110 women without infertility history. elisa was performed for all participants, seeking c.trachomat...

BACKGROUND It is unknown which combination of patient information and clinical tests might be optimal for the diagnosis of rotator cuff tears. This study aimed to determine the diagnostic value of nine individual clinical tests for evaluating rotator cuff tear and to develop a prediction model for diagnosing rotator cuff tear. METHODS This prospective cohort study included 169 patients with s...

The practice of using speculation in resolving data dependences based on value prediction has been studied as a means of extracting more instruction level parallelism. There are many studies on value prediction mechanisms with high predictabilities. However, to the best of our knowledge, the influence of compiler optimizations on value prediction has not been investigated. In this paper, we eva...

OBJECTIVE Quantitative ventricular fibrillation (VF) waveform analysis is a potentially powerful tool to optimize defibrillation. However, whether combining VF features with additional attributes that related to the previous shock could enhance the prediction performance for subsequent shocks is still uncertain. METHODS A total of 528 defibrillation shocks from 199 patients experienced out-of...

AIM To evaluate the accuracy of eye color prediction based on six IrisPlex single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP) in a Slovenian population sample. METHODS Six IrisPlex predictor SNPs (HERC2 - rs12913832, OCA2 - rs1800407, SLC45A2 - rs16891982 and TYR - rs1393350, SLC24A4 - rs12896399, and IRF4 - rs12203592) of 105 individuals were analyzed using single base extension approach and SNaPshot che...

West Virginia ranks second nationally in population ≥ 65 years old placing our state at greater risk for osteoporosis and fracture. The gold standard for detecting osteoporosis is dual X-ray absorptiometry (DXA), yet over half of West Virginia's counties do not have this machine. Due to access barriers, a validated phone-administered fracture prediction tool would be beneficial for osteoporosis...

This paper investigates the possibility of computerised diagnosis of malaria and describes a method to detect malaria parasites (Plasmodium spp) in images acquired from Giemsa-stained peripheral blood samples under conventional light microscopes. Prior to processing, the images are transformed to match a reference image colour characteristics. The parasite detector utilises a Bayesian pixel cla...

In this paper we study properties of H-singular values of a positive tensor m n n R 1  × × ∈  and present an iterative algorithm for computing the largest H-singular value of the positive tensor. We prove that this method converges for any positive tensors.

In this note, we obtain some singular values inequalities for positive semidefinite matrices by using block matrix technique. Our results are similar to some inequalities shown by Bhatia and Kittaneh in [Linear Algebra Appl. 308 (2000) 203-211] and [Linear Algebra Appl. 428 (2008) 2177-2191].