BACKGROUND World-wide, the notable expansion of HIV/AIDS treatment programs in resource-limited settings has lead to an increasing number of patients in need of second-line cART. To adequately address and prepare for this scenario, critical assessments of the outcomes of second-line cART are particularly relevant in settings where monitoring strategies may be inadequate. We evaluated virologic ...

BACKGROUND Risk stratification for mortality in intracerebral haemorrhage (ICH) helps guide care, but existing clinical prediction rules are too cumbersome for clinical practice because of their complexity. AIM To develop a simple decision tree model of in-hospital mortality risk stratification for ICH patients. METHODS We collected information on spontaneous ICH patients hospitalized in a ...

BACKGROUND Although modern combination antiretroviral therapy (cART) regimens are better tolerated and less complex than earlier treatments, regimen modification or discontinuation remains a concern. METHODS We studied HIV Outpatient Study (HOPS) participants who initiated the first or second cART regimens during: 1996-1999, 2000-2003, 2004-2007, and 2008-2011. We analyzed regimen durability ...

BACKGROUND It remains unclear whether it is possible to develop a spatiotemporal epidemic prediction model for cryptosporidiosis disease. This paper examined the impact of social economic and weather factors on cryptosporidiosis and explored the possibility of developing such a model using social economic and weather data in Queensland, Australia. METHODS Data on weather variables, notified c...

This study proposes using a random forest model for short-term electricity load forecasting. This is an ensemble learning method that generates many regression trees (CART) and aggregates their results. The model operates on patterns of the time series seasonal cycles which simplifies the forecasting problem especially when a time series exhibits nonstationarity, heteroscedasticity, trend and m...

Margin adaptive risk bounds for Classification and Regression Trees (CART, Breiman et. al. 1984) classifiers are obtained in the binary supervised classification framework. These risk bounds are obtained conditionally on the construction of the maximal deep binary tree and permit to prove that the linear penalty used in the CART pruning algorithm is valid under margin condition. It is also show...

The article analyzes previous research and publications on the development application of various types automated transport carts used in serial production, from which a conclusion is drawn about need to develop an cart that can be instrument manufacturing will increase productivity system.
 After conducting analysis, main element transportation system was developed, mounted mecanum wheels...

OBJECTIVE Cocaine- and amphetamine-regulated transcript (CART) is widely expressed in the rat brain, especially in the hypothalamic nuclei and in the anterior pituitary. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effects of CART on pituitary hormone release in pituitary cell culture. MATERIAL AND METHODS The pituitary hormone release from pituitary cell culture after CART administration was in...

Twenty one males 17-22 months old took part in an experiment of the effects of shopping cart design on standing in the seat section of the cart and speed of standing. Two different cart designs were examined. It was predicted that standing would be more likely in the over-the-counter vs deep basket type of cart since the former is less confining because of a larger seating area and larger leg h...