background: breast cancer is the most common cancer after lung cancer and the second cause of death. in this study we compared weibull and lognormal cure models with cox regression on the survival of breast cancer. study design: a cohort study. methods: the current study retrospective cohort study was conducted on 140 patients referred to ali ibn abitaleb hospital, rafsanjan southeastern iran f...

background: we designed an algorithmic model based on the logistic regression analysis and a non-algorithmic model based on the artificial neural network (ann). materials and methods: the ability of these models was compared together in clinical application to differentiate malignant from benign breast tumors in a study group of 161 patients' records. each patient’s record consisted of 6 s...

First of all, I would like to express my gratitude to Dental Press Journal of Orthodontics for the opportunity to conduct this interview with professor Eiji Tanaka, a brilliant scientist and dear friend of mine. Eiji Sensei, as he is affectionately known in Japan, is a simple and very charismatic man. I consider him a fatigueless scientist and a talented supporter who encourages others to devel...

Synopsis : The transient network model of Green-Tobolsky [1946], Yamamoto [1956] and Tanaka-Edwards [1992] is formulated within the frame of thermodynamics of irreversible processes, using as a fundamental quantity the chemical potential associated to the connection of strands to the network and treating these connections as chemical-like reactions. All thermodynamic quantities are thus natural...

Objective: I examined the relationship between urinary pentosidine concentration and vascular complications in patients with type 2 diabetes in order to investigate the pathophysiological roles of pentosidine. Methods: I performed a cross-sectional study in 119 Japanese patients with type 2 diabetes. The correlation of urinary pentosidine concentration with age, diabetes duration, HbA1c and blo...

Standard selection criteria for forecasting models focus on information that is calculated each series independently, disregarding the general tendencies and performance of candidate models. In this paper, we propose a new way to perform statistical model combination incorporates base rates models, which are then revised so per-series taken into account. We examine two schemes based precision s...