the intensity – duration – frequency (idf) curves play most important role in the hydraulic design of structures. the traditional method to construct idf curves has a long estimation process and also has high number of parameters which this property reduces the reliability of idf curves. in the traditional method, rainfall in different durations should be available until the extraction of idf c...

The intensity –duration –frequency (IDF) curves play most important role in watershed management, flood control and hydraulic design of structures. Conventional method for calculating the IDF curves needs hourly rainfall data in different durations which is not extensively available in many regions. Instead 24-hour precipitation statistics were measured in most rain-gauge stations. In this stud...

Feature extraction is the important prerequisite of classifying text effectively and automatically. TF· IDF is widely used to express the text feature weight. But it has some problems. TF•IDF can’t reflect the distribution of terms in the text, and then can’t reflect the importance degree and the difference between categories. This paper proposes a new feature weighting method—TF•IDF•Ci to whic...

In the domain of academic search engines and research-paper recommender systems, CC-IDF is a common citation-weighting scheme that is used to calculate semantic relatedness between documents. CC-IDF adopts the principles of the popular term-weighting scheme TF-IDF and assumes that if a rare academic citation is shared by two documents then this occurrence should receive a higher weight than if ...

BACKGROUND The objective of this study was to compare four different criteria for diagnosing metabolic syndrome (MS) and to correlate sociodemographic data, liver enzymes, lipids, inflammation, and insulin resistance with MS definitions. METHODS This cross-sectional study included a random number of 126 African bank employees from Brazzaville, Congo. RESULTS THE PREVALENCE OF MS VARIED ACCO...

Infantile digital fibromatosis (IDF) is a rare benign fibroproliferative tumor of early childhood. IDF preferentially affects the fingers and the toes. Malignant transformation or metastases have never been reported. Surgical treatment has been advocated previously but local recurrences were observed frequently. Recent literature supports clinical surveillance without any medical or surgical in...

Traditionally, content-based news recommendation is performed by means of the cosine similarity and the TF-IDF weighting scheme for terms occurring in news messages and user profiles. Semanticsdriven variants like SF-IDF additionally take into account term meaning by exploiting synsets from semantic lexicons. However, semantics-based weighting techniques are not able to handle – often crucial –...

BACKGROUND Orthogonal polarized spectral (OPS) and sidestream dark field (SDF) imaging video microscope devices were introduced for observation of the microcirculation but, due to technical limitations, have remained as research tools. Recently, a novel handheld microscope based on incident dark field illumination (IDF) has been introduced for clinical use. The Cytocam-IDF imaging device consis...