pathological changes within an organ can be reflected as proteomic patterns in biological fluids such as plasma, serum, and urine. the surface-enhanced laser desorption and ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry (seldi-tof ms) has been used to generate proteomic profiles from biological fluids. mass spectrometry yields redundant noisy data that the most data points are irrelevant features ...

An onset detector is described based on the most successful onset detector for non-pitched percussive audio events from an earlier comparative study (Collins, 2005a). The detection function is an adaptation of the log intensity difference change discrimination originally introduced by Anssi Klapuri (Klapuri, 1999). A novel peak picking method is used based on scoring the most salient peaks with...

UNLABELLED The aim of this study was to identify changes of sleep spindles (SS) in the EEG of patients with Parkinson's disease (PD). Five sleep experts manually identified SS at a central scalp location (C3-A2) in 15 PD and 15 age- and sex-matched control subjects. Each SS was given a confidence score, and by using a group consensus rule, 901 SS were identified and characterized by their (1) d...

The skin conductance response (SCR) is increasingly being used as a measure of sympathetic activation concurrent with neuroscience measurements. We present a method of automated analysis of SCR data in the contexts of event-related cognitive tasks and nonspecific responding to complex stimuli. The primary goal of the method is to accurately measure the classical trough-to-peak amplitude of SCR ...

in assessing foreign language writing, holistic and analytic scoring can be used to measure a variety of discourse and linguistic features. this study aimed to investigate the possible significant effect of analyt- ic and holistic assessments on improving writing skill among iranian efl learners. for this purpose, two groups of intermediate efl learners, after being homogenized, were divided in...

this study aimed at investigating the reliability, predictive validity, and self-esteem and gender bias of confidence-based scoring. this is a method of scoring in which the test takers receive a positive or negative point based on their rating of their confidence in an answer. the participants, who were 49 english-major students taking their grammar course, were given 8 multiple-choice tests d...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES The relationship between QT prolongation and myocardial ischemia is widely known. Due to the limited value of ST depression, we aimed to evaluate, by using four simpler heart rate corrections (Bazett, Framingham, Fridericia and Hodges), the value of maximal exercise-QTc prolongation in the diagnosis of coronary artery disease (CAD) presence and severity. SUBJECTS AND...

BACKGROUND Among variables obtained from cardiopulmonary exercise testing (CPXT), peak oxygen consumption (PV̇O2) and the minute ventilation vs. carbon dioxide output (V̇E vs. V̇CO2) slope were established as predictors of death of patients with heart failure (HF) at the cutoff points of 14 ml·min(-1)·kg(-1)and 34, respectively. However, a recent update of guideline-directed medical treatment (GDM...

698 British Journal ofGeneral Practice, November 2011 ADVANTAGESOVEREXISTING TECHNOLOGY An alternative method for detecting chronic obstructivepulmonarydisease (COPD) is the use of symptom scoring. Pulse oximetry is not useful for the initial diagnosis of COPD, but is used in assessing severity at a later stage of disease. Peak flow is not used to diagnose COPD, but serial measurements may be u...