Purpose: To determine whether learning curves can be observed with deliberate practice when the goal is to apply a consistent rate of force at 5 N/second during pressure pain threshold (PPT) testing in healthy volunteers. Methods: In this prospective study, 17 clinician participants completed PPT targeted rate-of-application testing with healthy volunteers using three different feedback paradig...

Photometric redshifts have been regarded as efficient and effective measures for studying the statistical properties of galaxies and their evolution. In this paper, we introduce SVM_Light, a freely available software package using support vector machines (SVM) for photometric redshift estimation. This technique shows its superiorities in accuracy and efficiency. It can be applied to huge volume...

During the past decade, there has been a dramatic increase in the number of applications within the commercial and military market requiring very high input/output (I/O) bandwidth and real-time processing power. These applications have been creating an insatiable demand for increasingly higher performance commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) computer systems that can be easily configured to closely ...

background: the purpose of this study was to characterize the pharmacokinetic parameters of mycophenolic acid (mpa) in iranian kidney transplant patients. methods: plasma mpa concentration of mycophenolate mofetile (mmf) 1 gram two times a day was measured in 21 iranian kidney transplant recipients receiving treatment. patients who entered the study had been transplanted for more than 3 months ...

For many years now, there is a growing interest around ROC curve for characterizing machine learning performances. This is particularly due to the fact that in real-world problems misclassification costs are not known and thus, ROC curve and related metrics such as the Area Under ROC curve (AUC) can be a more meaningful performance measures. In this paper, we propose a SVMs based algorithm for ...

surge and rotating stall phenomena are two dynamic instabilities that occur in both axial and centrifugal compressors. surge is the stream instability phenomenon in compressor that imposes severe damages to the compressors. nowadays, suppressing surge phenomenon is one of the most important issues in oil and gas industries, especially when flow reduction or gas reflux is considered. this resear...