Objective: Tooth decay is one of the most common chronic diseases in the world. After pit and fissures, enamel of proximal surface is the second region prone to rot. Bitewing images are one of the most important diagnostic tools for the detection of caries . Given the importance of accurate and timely detection of decay , the current study was aimed to evaluate the ability and skill of the fi...

objective: tooth decay is one of the most common chronic diseases in the world. after pit and fissures, enamel of proximal surface is the second region prone to rot. bitewing images are one of the most important diagnostic tools for the detection of caries . given the importance of accurate and timely detection of decay , the current study was aimed to evaluate the ability and skill of the fina...

The measurement of free immunoglobulin light chains is typically performed on serum; however, the use of alternative specimen types has potential benefits. Using the Freelite™ kappa and lambda free light chains assay on a Roche Diagnostics cobas 8000 c502 analyzer, we compared three specimen types (serum, EDTA-plasma and lithium heparin plasma separator gel-plasma) on 100 patients. Using Deming...

Within the natural language processing (NLP) community, active learning has been widely investigated and applied in order to alleviate the annotation bottleneck faced by developers of new NLP systems and technologies. This paper presents the first theoretical analysis of stopping active learning based on stabilizing predictions (SP). The analysis has revealed three elements that are central to ...

the prevalence of asthma remains difficult to determine with precision with no absolute or gold standard for diagnosis. international study of asthma and allergies in childhood (isaac) developed video questionnaire for epidemiological studies with less reliance on understanding written asthma questionnaire. the aim of this research was to determine the agreement between the isaac written and vi...

Mental illness is associated with unfair treatment in a number of areas of life. There is currently no psychometrically validated measure that has been developed to specifically focus on such experienced discrimination. This study aimed to finalise the Discrimination and Stigma Scale (DISC) and establish its psychometric properties. The DISC was further developed using (1) service user and inte...

The election of a queen to preside over junior prom Friday, February 22, from 9:00 to 2 :()(> ./clock at the Aurania club, South Allen street, will be concluded this morning after assembly in the auditorium of Page lull, according to Edward Kramer, vice-president of the junior class and general chairman of the weekend activities. The services of Eric Peterson and bis orchestra have been secured...

In this paper, the influence of intonation to recognize dialogue acts from speech is assessed. Assessment is based on an empirical approach: manually tagged data from a spoken-dialogue and video corpus are used in a CARTstyle machine learning algorithm to produce a predictive model. Our approach involves two general stages: the tagging task, and the development of machine learning experiments. ...

Information retrieval studies that involve searching the Internet or marking phrases usually lack a well-defined number of negative cases. This prevents the use of traditional interrater reliability metrics like the kappa statistic to assess the quality of expert-generated gold standards. Such studies often quantify system performance as precision, recall, and F-measure, or as agreement. It can...

BACKGROUND The Paris System for Reporting Urinary Cytology represents a significant improvement in classification of urinary specimens. The system acknowledges the difficulty in cytologically diagnosing low-grade urothelial carcinomas and has developed categories to deal with this issue. The system uses six categories: unsatisfactory, negative for high-grade urothelial carcinoma (NHGUC), atypic...