Excellent concordances can be produced by tools mounted on regular web search engines but these tools are not suitable for quick lookups on the web because it takes time to collect ad-hoc corpora with occurrences of a queried word or phrase. It is possible to get a web concordance in an instant if the amount of transferred data can be limited. One way to do it is to use snippets from a search e...

BACKGROUND Hyperlipidemia and hypertension are well-established risk factors for recurrent cardiovascular events among patients with ischemic heart disease (IHD). Despite national recommendations, concordance with guidelines for LDL cholesterol and blood pressure remains inadequate. The objectives of this study were to 1) determine concordance rates with LDL cholesterol and BP recommendations; ...

Anticancer drugs are notoriously characterized by a low therapeutic index, the introduction of drug monitoring (TDM) in oncologic clinical practice could therefore be fundamental to improve treatment efficacy. In this context, an attractive technique overcome conventional venous sampling limits and simplify TDM application is represented dried blood spot (DBS). Despite significant progress made...

Taking advantage of Gaussian process (GP), we obtain an improved estimate the Hubble constant, $H_0=70.41\pm1.58$ km s$^{-1}$ Mpc$^{-1}$, using parameter [$H(z)$] from cosmic chronometers (CCH) and expansion rate function [$E(z)$], extracted type Ia supernovae, data. We also use CCH data, including ones with full covariance matrix, $E(z)$ data to a determination $H_0=72.34_{-1.92}^{+1.90}$ whic...

Many of the techniques for making decisions, including land use, depend on weight assigned each criterion. These criteria can be based a panel experts’ opinions, who assess certain decisions’ influence final objectives. opinions should contrasted to decide if they are used or select ones achieve an internal coherence. In this study, we evaluate responses provided by expert in context future env...

As proved by Hedden and Ording, there exist knots for which the Ozsváth-Szabó and Rasmussen smooth concordance invariants, τ and s, differ. The Hedden-Ording examples have nontrivial Alexander polynomials and are not topologically slice. It is shown in this note that a simple manipulation of the Hedden-Ording examples yields a topologically slice Alexander polynomial one knot for which τ and s ...

Background: Non-concordance with medication remains a major public health problem that imposes a considerable financial burden on the health care system, and there is still a need for studies on correlates of non-concordance. Our first aim is to analyse whether any of the individual characteristics age, educational level, financial strain, self-rated health, social participation, and trust in t...

If a knot K has Seifert matrix VK and has a prime power cyclic branched cover that is not a homology sphere, then there is an infinite family of non–concordant knots having Seifert matrix VK . AMS Classification numbers Primary: 57M25 Secondary: 57N70

The classical knot concordance group, C1, was defined in 1961 by Fox [F]. He proved that it is nontrivial by finding elements of order two; details were presented in [FM]. Since then one of the most vexing questions concerning the concordance group has been whether it contains elements of finite order other than 2–torsion. Interest in this question was heightened by Levine’s proof [L1, L2] that...

A pair of linear orders L, L′ on an n-element set V is a concordance pair if the Kendall and Spearman correlation measures between L and L′ coincide. A graph is called concordance graph if it has the same number of induced three-vertex one-edged subgraphs as induced three-vertex twoedged subgraphs. It is known (see Fishburn and Monjardet (2000)) that (L, L′) is a concordance pair if and only if...