Patients 340 outpatients who were ≥ 18 years of age (mean age 42 y, 66% women); had a current diagnosis of MDD; and scored ≥ 20 on the Hamilton Depression Rating Scale (HDRS) (mean score 22.8) and ≤ 60 on the Global Assessment of Functioning (mean score 53.6) after a 1 week placebo run in period. Exclusion criteria included a score > 2 on the HDRS suicide item, serious physical or psychiatric d...

P a t i e n t s 328 patients who were ≥ 18 years of age and had Crohn colitis or ileocolitis in complete remission (Crohn disease activity index [CDAI] ≤ 150) for ≥ 1 month before randomization. Exclusion criteria were receipt of steroid, azathioprine, or other immunosuppressive therapy within 8 weeks of the start of treatment; antibiotic therapy ≥ 1 month; potential for pregnancy or lactation;...

Patients 200 physically healthy outpatients who were >18 years of age (mean age 42.4 y, 64% women); had MD (single episode or recurrent) without psychotic features according to DSM-IV for >4 weeks; and scored >20 on the Hamilton Depression Rating Scale (HDRS). Exclusion criteria included current cognitive, post-traumatic stress, eating, or substance use disorders in the past 6 months; panic dis...

Groundwater level prediction in a water basin plays a significant role in the management of groundwater resources. Aground water level forecasting system is developed in this study using Support vector Machines (SVM). Further Quantum behaved Particle Swarm Optimization (QPSO) function is employed in this study to determine the SVM parameters. Later, the proposed SVM-QPSO model is used in determ...

M e t h o d s Design: Randomized controlled trial. Allocation: Concealed.* Blinding: Blinded (clinicians and patients).* Follow-up period: 12 months. Setting: 18 Veterans Affairs Medical Centers in the United States. Patients: 593 patients ≥ 65 years of age (mean age 72 y, 96% men) with newly diagnosed epilepsy (≥ 1 seizure in the preceding 3 mo) who were untreated, treated only acutely (< 4 wk...

In this paper Self-Advising SVM, a new proposed version of SVM, is investigated for sleep apnea classification. Self-Advising SVM tries to transfer more information from training phase to the test phase in compare to the traditional SVM. In this paper Sleep apnea events are classified to central, obstructive or mixed, by using just three signals, airflow, abdominal and thoracic movement, as inp...

The aim of this study was to investigate the potential of the infrared spectroscopy technique for nondestructive measurement of fat content in milk powder. Fat is an important component of milk powder. It is very important to be able to detect the fat content in milk powder using a rapid and nondestructive method. Near and mid infrared spectroscopy techniques were used to achieve this purpose. ...

Stock market prediction is the act of trying to determine the future value of a company stock or other financial instrument traded on a financial exchange. The successful prediction of a stock's future price will maximize investor’s gains. This paper proposes a machine learning model to predict stock market price. The proposed algorithm integrates Particle swarm optimization (PSO) and least squ...