Liver fibrosis and cirrhosis is associated with the prognosis of patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) after treatment. The γ-glutamyl transpeptidase to platelet ratio (GPR) is reported to predict significant liver fibrosis and cirrhosis. The aim of this study was to investigate the predictive value of preoperative GPR on the recurrence and survival of patients with HCC who underwent cur...

This paper describes the music emotion recognition system developed at the University of Aizu for the Emotion in Music task of the MediaEval’2013 benchmark evaluation campaign. A set of standard feature types provided by the Marsyas toolkit was used to parametrize each music clip. Arousal and valence are modeled separately using Gaussian Process regression (GPR). We compared performances of the...

The aim of Chapter 2 is to give an overview of the GPR basic principles and technology. A lot of definitions and often-used terms that will be used throughout the whole work will be explained here. Readers who are familiar with GPR and the demining application can skip parts of this chapter. Section 2.2.4 however can be interesting since a description of the hardware and the design parameters o...

Three nonlinear count models, Poisson R.egression (PR), Negative Binomial Regression (NBR), and Generalized Poisson Regression (GPR) are used for assessing the effects of risk factors on agricultural injuries from farm injury data. A sample of 1,322 respondents who participated in the farm safety/injury baseline survey in nine rural counties in Alabama and Mississippi, aged 18 years and older a...

Assessing program quality and outcomes is essential to improve postgraduate dental education. This study's aims were to document career direction and practice patterns of graduates of the Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) General Practice Residency (GPR), to compare BWH GPR outcomes to those of other American GPRs, and to identify characteristics of the BWH GPR program that trainees valued. Th...

Abstract Ballast fouling in railroad substructure is detrimental to railroad track effectiveness and its structural capacity. Ground penetrating radar (GPR) provides a rapid, effective and continuous approach to assess railroad substructure condition. However, unknown ballast dielectric constant and unclear interface between clean and fouled ballast limit the GPR assessment accuracy. In this st...

Ground penetrating radar (GPR) is a non-destructive geophysical method that uses electromagnetic waves to image the subsurface. A typical GPR system has three main components: transmitter and receiver, directly connected to the transmitting and receiving antennas, and a control unit. Electromagnetic pulses are transmitted into the subsurface and the earth response is recorded. The GPR method is...

Interpreters are routinely required to develop a continuous model of the subsurface through the integration of available data. One of the issues commonly encountered is how best to “fill in” the region between data points, or describe the region at a scale less than the scale of the sampling. We take this opportunity, as part of the Near-Surface Geophysics issue, to describe research currently ...