Background: Value of Corticosteroid Randomisation after Significant Head Injury (CRASH) prognostic model has not been assessed in children with traumatic brain injury (TBI). This study is designed to examine the value of CRASH model in prediction of 14-day mortality and 6-month unfavourable outcome of pediatric TBI. Materials and Methods: </stron...

background : the measuring serum ferritin level as a sensitive inflammatory biomarker might effectively predict preterm delivery, but the power and the best cut-off point of this biomarker for predicting preterm labor in iranian population has not been substantially identified. our purpose was to determine what concentrations of serum ferritin could identify patients at risk for preterm deliver...

Elimination of data dependencies through value prediction can help to extract more parallelism. High accuracy value prediction is thus essential in achieving significant performance improvement by exposing more ILP. Various data value prediction methods have been studied [SS97],[WF97]. In this paper, the Shifting Locality Stride Predictor (SLSP) and Repeating Peak Predictor(RPP) are introduced,...

according to this fact that wind is now a part of global energy portfolio and due to unreliable and discontinuous production of wind energy; prediction of wind power value is proposed as a main necessity. in recent years, various methods have been proposed for wind power prediction. in this paper the prediction structure involves feature selection and use of artificial neural network (ann). in ...

background in 1996, donovan and colleagues represented a scoring system for better prediction of hirschsprung disease (hd). objectives our objective was to devise another scoring system that uses a checklist of radiologic and clinical signs to determine the probability of hd in suspicious patients. patients and methods in a diagnostic accuracy study, 55 children with clinical manifestations of ...

Use of lamb BW or chilled carcass weights (CCW), live-animal ultrasound or direct carcass measurements of backfat thickness (BF; mm) and LM area (LMA; cm2), and carcass body wall thickness (BWall; mm) to predict carcass yield and value was evaluated using 512 crossbred lambs produced over 3 yr by mating Columbia, U.S. Meat Animal Research Center Composite, Suffolk, and Texel rams to adult Rambo...