BACKGROUND Prediction of the binding ability of antigen peptides to major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class II molecules is important in vaccine development. The variable length of each binding peptide complicates this prediction. Motivated by a text mining model designed for building a classifier from labeled and unlabeled examples, we have developed an iterative supervised learning model...

Background: F-FDG PET/CT (PET) is useful in assessing inflammatory activity in sarcoidosis. However, no appropriate indications are available. The aim of this study was to develop a prediction rule that can be used to identify symptomatic sarcoidosis patients who have a high probability of PET-positivity. Methods: We retrospectively analyzed a cohort of sarcoidosis patients with non organ speci...

introduction: awareness about the outcome of trauma patients in the emergency department (ed) has become a topic of interest. accordingly, the present study aimed to compare the rapid trauma score (rts) and worthing physiological scoring system (wpss) in predicting in-hospital mortality and poor outcome of trauma patients. methods: in this comparative study trauma patients brought to five eds i...

BACKGROUND (18)F-FDG PET/CT (PET) is useful in assessing inflammatory activity in sarcoidosis. However, no appropriate indications are available. The aim of this study was to develop a prediction rule that can be used to identify symptomatic sarcoidosis patients who have a high probability of PET-positivity. METHODS We retrospectively analyzed a cohort of sarcoidosis patients with non organ s...

In order to have successful application of genomic selection, reference population and marker density should be chosen properly. This study purpose was to investigate the accuracy of genomic estimated breeding values in terms of low (5K), intermediate (50K) and high (777K) densities in the simulated populations, when different scenarios were applied about the reference populations selecting. Af...

Due to an increase in demand of petroleum products which are transported by vessels or exported by pipelines, oil spill management becomes a controversial issue in coastal environment safety as well as making serious financial problems. After spilling oil in the water body, oil spreads as a thin layer on the water surface. Currents, waves and wind are the main causes of oil slick transport. The...

Local draft experiments were conducted to establish the overall thermal sensation prediction model under low pressure environment. Head, chest, hand, and ankle exposed local airflow three environments: 1 atm, 0.87 0.74 respectively. The skin temperature was measured subjective questionnaires collected. results showed that in cooler environment, mean decreased with decrease of pressure, people m...

Introduction: Diabetes is the most common endocrine disease caused by sugar, fat and protein metabolism disorder and is characterized by blood sugar increase. Pre-diabetic individuals are the most vulnerable people at risk of diabetes, therefore; in the present study pre-diabetic individuals are considered as control group versus diabetic patients. Depending on the nature of dependent and predi...