When the training data in a two-class classification problem is overwhelmed by one class, most classification techniques fail to correctly identify the data points belonging to the underrepresented class. We propose Similarity-based Imbalanced Classification (SBIC) that learns patterns in the training data based on an empirical similarity function. To take the imbalanced structure of the traini...

INTRODUCTION Sodium bicarbonate (SBIC) was reported to be a promising approach to prevent cardiac surgery-associated acute kidney injury (CSA-AKI). However, the results remain controversial. We conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis to evaluate the efficacy and safety of SBIC on the prevention of CSA-AKI in adult patients undergoing cardiac surgery. METHODS PubMed, EMbase, Web of sci...

In accordance with the resource-based view and the activity-based view, sustainable competitive advantages are mainly due to core knowledge that, together with tangible and (especially) intangible resources, develops competitive products and services through the appropriate activities and processes of the value chain. Strategic Benchmarking of Intellectual Capital (SBIC) is a knowledge-based st...

The systematic review and meta-analysis of prospective randomized trials reported by Tie and colleagues [1] in a previous issue of Critical Care provide evidence that intravenous sodium bicarbonate (SBIC) administration does not reduce the incidence of cardiac surgery-associated (CSA) acute kidney injury (AKI) but prolongs the duration of mechanical ventilation and of hospital stay. The conclus...

Supervisory Team  Dr Michael A. Carroll, School of Chemistry, http://www.ncl.ac.uk/chemistry/staff/profile/michael.carroll  Dr Mohammed Shoaib, Institute of Neuroscience, http://www.ncl.ac.uk/ion/staff/profile/mohammedshoaib.html#research  Dr Ed Robins, Singapore Bioimaging Consortium, A*STAR  https://www.a-star.edu.sg/sbic/ABOUT-SBIC/PrincipalInvestigators/Ed-Robins.aspx  The Lead Supervi...

The problem of selection breakthrough inventions to be commercialized (SBIC) is significantly important for innovative enterprises. As the processes commercializing are time-consuming and high-cost, enterprises have tradeoff among all possible determine which should commercialized. SBIC refers a process in multiple experts invited evaluate potential from aspects based on their assessments, chos...

Earlier studies on Small Business Internet Commerce (SBIC) indicate that small businesses are using the Internet for various business activities. However, few so far have been focused on the use of multimedia tools to support context-rich, highly interactive business activities (eg., online product inspection and negotiation). This paper reports the findings of a preliminary study relevant to t...

A quantitative evaluation function for 3D tree-like structure segmentations in liver images Cheng Li, Jiaze Wu, Yanling Chi, Jimin Liu, Qi Tian & Haoyong Yu a Department of Bioengineering, National University of Singapore, Block EA-02-02, 9 Engineering Drive 1, Singapore 117575, Singapore b Singapore Bioimaging Consortium (SBIC), Agency for Science, Technology and Research (ASTAR), Singapore, S...