This study investigated the strength and limitations of two widely used multi-model averaging frameworks—Bayesian model (BMA) reliability ensemble (REA), in post-processing runoff projections derived from coupled hydrological models climate downscaling models. The performance weight distributions five ensembles were thoroughly compared, including simple equal-weight averaging, BMA, REAs optimiz...

Current Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems are based on double entry bookkeeping. This technique has several disadvantages concerning application neutral financial data storage. Therefore, the Resource Event Agent (REA) ontology was introduced to negotiate the current drawbacks. It describes concepts and its relationships semantically. Nevertheless, there exist a set of different REA mo...

■ In reactive arthritis (ReA), exposure of the host to infectious agents leads to the development of an inflammatory arthritis and other manifestations of systemic disease in the absence of an ongoing infectious process. ■ Approximately 50% of ReA and undifferentiated oligoarthritis cases can be attributed to a specific pathogen by a combination of culture and serology. The predominant organism...

The RiboPrinter Microbial Characterization System was compared with pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE), restriction endonuclease analysis (REA), and epidemiological data for typing 45 vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium (VRE) isolates. In 21 clinically related isolates, 90 to 100% were similar by PFGE and REA, but only 57% were similar by the RiboPrinter. In another eight clinically ...

We previously identified a coregulator, repressor of estrogen receptor activity (REA), that directly interacts with estrogen receptor (ER) and represses ER transcriptional activity. Decreasing the intracellular level of REA by using small interfering RNA knockdown or antisense RNA approaches in cells in culture resulted in a significant increase in the level of up-regulation of estrogen-stimula...

The Resources-Events-Agents (REA) model is a semantic data model for the development of enterprise information systems. Although this model has been proposed as a benchmark for enterprise information modelling, only few studies have attempted to empirically validate the claimed benefits of REA modelling. Moreover, these studies focused on the evaluation of REA-based system implementations rathe...

The expression of a specific repressor of estrogen receptor activity (REA) was investigated by a semiquantitative reverse transcription-PCR assay in 40 human breast tumor biopsy samples with respect to steroid hormone receptor status and other known prognostic variables. The data showed that REA expression was positively correlated with estrogen receptor (ER) levels as defined by ligand-binding...

INTRODUCTION Bacteria and/or their antigens have been implicated in the pathogenesis of reactive arthritis (ReA). Several studies have reported the presence of bacterial antigens and nucleic acids of bacteria other than those specified by diagnostic criteria for ReA in joint specimens from patients with ReA and various arthritides. The present study was conducted to detect any bacterial DNA and...

Ontologies are a popular research direction in different domains as is also the case in information systems research. In the beginning of this millennium Geerts and McCarthy (2002) proposed an ontology for the business context which was an extension of the basic REA-model which had already proven its use as a semantic accounting information model. In the recent papers of Geerts and McCarthy the...