Improving the ability to assess potential stroke deficit may aid the selection of patients most likely to benefit from acute stroke therapies. Methods based only on ‘at risk’ volumes or initial neurological condition do predict eventual outcome but not perfectly. Given the close relationship between anatomy and function in the brain, we propose the use of a modified version of partial least squ...

A brief discussion is given of the traditional version of the Maximum Entropy Method, including a review of some of the criticism that has been made in regard to its use in statistical inference. Motivated by these questions, a modified version of the method is then proposed and applied to an example in order to demonstrate its use with a given time series.

Ten high-school students of English as a second language (ESL) intensively studied the modified version of The Cay (retold by Strange, 1997). During their study the teacher asked questions designed to elicit students’ comprehension and understanding of racism and prejudice as the main themes of The Cay. Analysis of classroom discourse data indicated that none of the students independently ident...

ÐWe have modified the original version space strategy in order to learn disjunctive concepts incrementally and without saving past training instances. The algorithm time complexity is also analyzed, and its correctness is proven. Index TermsÐDisjunctive concept, incremental learning, merge, split, version space.

The purpose of this study was to use a mixed-methods approach to determine the validity and reliability of measurements used within an alcohol-exposed pregnancy prevention program for American Indian women. To develop validity, content experts provided input into the survey measures, and a "think aloud" methodology was conducted with 23 American Indian women. After revising the measurements bas...

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SUMMARY. For a vector of estimable parameters, a modified version of the James-Stein rule (incorporating the idea of preliminary test estimators) is utilized in formulating some estimators based on U-statistics and their jackknifed estimator of dispersion matrix. Asymptotic admissibility properties of the classical U-statistics, their preliminary test version and the proposed estimators are stu...

This study aims to present the cross-cultural adaptation process of the Modified Dyspnea Index to the Brazilian culture and to investigate its content validity and reliability. This process included the steps of translation, back translation and review by two experts to assess semantic, conceptual, idiomatic, cultural and metabolic equivalence. The Index of Content Validity was used to evaluate...

We consider a modified version of the Vlasov-Maxwell system in which the usual Maxwell fields are replaced by their retarded parts. We show that solutions of this modified system exist globally for a small number of particles and that they describe a system without incoming radiation.

We consider a modified version of the Vlasov-Maxwell system in which the usual Maxwell fields are replaced by their retarded parts. We show that solutions of this modified system exist globally for a small initial density of particles and that they describe a system without incoming radiation.