Background: Fetal growth restriction is defined as the failure of the fetus to achieve its full growth potential. The present study aimed to investigate the application of first trimester screening in the prediction of small for gestational age (SGA).Methods: This cohort study was conducted on the consecutive and unselected women with singleton pregnancies undergoing routine first-trimester exa...

Predictive maintenance is a challenging task, which aims at forecasting failure of a machine or one of its components. It allows companies to utilize just-in-time maintenance procedures instead of corrective or fixed-schedule ones. In order to achieve this goal, a complex and potentially error-prone process has to be completed successfully. Based on a real-world failure prediction example origi...

BACKGROUND At present, there are no prognostic parameters unequivocally predicting treatment failure in early rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients. We investigated whether baseline ultrasonography (US) findings of joints, when added to baseline clinical, laboratory, and radiographical data, could improve prediction of failure to achieve Disease Activity Score assessing 28 joints (DAS28) remission...

Disc wheels intended for normal use on passenger cars have to pass three tests before going into production: the dynamic cornering fatigue test, the dynamic radial fatigue test, and the impact test. This paper describes a probability model for prediction of fatigue failures of aluminum disc wheels, which intends to better link the prediction using simulation results with historical test data. F...

mize the conditions of extubation, eg, steroid pretreatment, optimization of fluid balance, glucose control, and nutrition support. These patients could also be targeted for interventions such as aggressive bronchial hygiene protocols, early mobilization, and careful titration of analgesics. The prediction of early versus late reintubation includes different variables, suggesting that different...

Response to Letter Regarding Article, “Four-Variable Risk Model in Men and Women With Heart Failure” We appreciated reading the letter to the editor by Petretta and Cuocolo regarding our article “Four-Variable Risk Model in Men and Women With Heart Failure.” In an answer to their query on the exponential equation we provided (Survival(t) = e), this equation predicts survival free from all-cause...

In this paper, linear discrete-time systems with white stochastic parameters are considered. Most results on the optimal state estimation of linear discrete time systems with stochastic parameters rely strongly on the generalization of the one step prediction type Kalman filter to this type of systems. But it has been shown that the current output observer results in less estimation error as co...

For failure prediction and information interaction problems of multi-equipment health management, fault prediction technology of multi-equipment and multi-parameter was proposed based on the system network. The state judgment and fault diagnosis algorithm is adopted by SOM self-organizing feature map neural network, the network parameters and node structure are changed adaptively, and the real-...

Improved methods are proposed for disk-drive failure prediction. The SMART (Self Monitoring and Reporting Technology) failure prediction system is currently implemented in disk-drives. Its purpose is to predict the near-term failure of an individual hard disk-drive, and issue a backup warning to prevent data loss. Two experimental tests of SMART show only moderate accuracy at low false-alarm ra...