OBJECTIVES This is a cross-sectional study aimed at investigating cognitive performances in patients with primary lateral sclerosis (PLS) and using diffusion tensor (DT) magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to determine the topographical distribution of microstructural white matter (WM) damage in patients with or without cognitive deficits. METHODS DT MRI scans were obtained from 21 PLS patients ...

In this work we find out how PLS algorithms, properly adjusted, can work as optimal scaling algorithms. This new feature of PLS, which had until now been totally unexplored, allowed us to devise a new suite of PLS methods: the Non-Metric PLS (NM-PLS) methods. Mots-clès: Analyse des données data mining, Problèmes inverses et sparsité

Simultaneous determination of difloxacin and enrofloxacin using two chemometric methods, partial least squares regression (PLS) and direct orthogonal signal correction-partial least squares regression (DOSC-PLS) is described in this paper. The simultaneous determination of these drugs is difficult due to spectral interferences. The calibration graphs were linear in the range of 1-10 μg mL-1 and...

The POLARIS (PLS) gene of Arabidopsis was identified as a promoter trap transgenic line, showing beta-glucuronidase fusion gene expression predominantly in the embryonic and seedling root, with low expression in aerial parts. Cloning of the PLS locus revealed that the promoter trap T-DNA had inserted into a short open reading frame (ORF). Rapid amplification of cDNA ends PCR, RNA gel blot analy...

Partial Least Squares (PLS) is a wide class of methods for modeling relations between sets of observed variables by means of latent variables. It comprises of regression and classification tasks as well as dimension reduction techniques and modeling tools. The underlying assumption of all PLS methods is that the observed data is generated by a system or process which is driven by a small number...

BACKGROUND The methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) surface protein Pls (plasmin sensitive) reduces adhesion to host proteins and cellular invasiveness by an unknown mechanism that requires Pls expression. Here, we tested the effect of Pls expression using different pls-negative backgrounds. METHODS Three pls-negative strains (the methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus st...

Visible and near-infrared (Vis-NIR) diffuse reflectance spectroscopy with partial least squares (PLS) regression is a quick, cost-effective, and promising technology for predicting soil properties. The advantage of PLS regression is that all available wavebands can be incorporated in the model, while earlier studies indicate that PLS models include redundant wavelengths, and selecting specific ...

The partial least squares (PLS) regression is a new multivariate data analysis method. In this paper, based on the ideas of PLS model and feature fusion, a new non-iterative PLS algorithm and a novel method of feature fusion are proposed. The proposed method comprises three steps: firstly, extracting two sets of feature vectors with the same pattern and establishing PLS criterion function betwe...