BACKGROUND This study reports on the analysis of the application and diagnostic predictability of the revised 2014 ICBD criteria in an unselected cohort of UK patients, and the ensuing organ associations and patterns of disease. METHODS A retrospective cohort study was conducted using a database of electronic medical records. Three categories were recognised: clinically defined BD, incomplete...

The quality of results for partitioning clustering algorithms depends on the assumption made on the number of clusters presented in the data set. Applying clustering methods on real data missing values turn out to be an additional challenging problem for clustering algorithms. Fuzzy clustering approaches adapted to incomplete data perform well for a given number of clusters. In this study, we a...

In the last two decades, product recovery systems have received increasing attention due to several reasons such as new governmental regulations and economic advantages. One of the most important activities of these systems is to assign returned products to suitable reverse manufacturing alternatives. Uncertainty of returned products in terms of quantity, quality, and time complicates the decis...

West Africa is considered a region of low seismicity. However, the monitoring earthquake activity by local seismic arrays began very early (as as 1914) in but catalogs are incomplete. In 1991, Bertil studied seismicity based on networks stations Ivory Coast and neighboring countries. The reference work Ambraseys Adams well recent earthquakes given international data centres were also used for c...

Guiding the generation of abductive explanations is a di cult problem. Applying casebased reasoning to abductive explanation generation|generating new explanations by retrieving and adapting explanations for prior episodes|o ers the bene t of re-using successful explanatory reasoning but raises new issues concerning how to perform similarity assessment to judge the relevance of prior explanatio...

Karon et al. (1 ) modeled the effects of glucose meter error on insulin dosing errors. They refer to an earlier model that I had pointed out was incomplete (2 ). Although Boyd and Bruns (3 ) agreed with my assessment, the current simulation is, once again, incomplete and the same as the previous simulation. We have reviewed the statistics for glucose meter performance (4 ) and noted that Lawton...

OBJECTIVE To perform a longitudinal cohort study concerning the capacity of prospectively-collected erythrocyte sedimentation rates (ESR) and scores for physical function, pain, patient global estimate, and routine assessment of patient index data (RAPID3) on a multidimensional health assessment questionnaire (MDHAQ), to recognize incomplete versus adequate responses to methotrexate in rheumato...

Boolean logic appears to be unable to draw conclusions in the presence of inconsistent and/or incomplete information. Fortunately, what seems to be impossible to solve applying binary logic can be achieved using nonbinary logic. In this work we use the theory of many-value logic to facilitate the deductive process of knowledge assessment. Key–Words: Web-based assessment, learning, intelligent t...