BACKGROUND Laparoscopic cholecystectomy (LC) has become the procedure of choice for management of symptomatic gallstone disease. At times, it is difficult and takes longer time or has to be converted to an open procedure. This study is undertaken to determine the predictive factors for difficult LC. AIM The aim was to evaluate a scoring method to predict difficult LC preoperatively. MATERIA...

Credit scoring models are usually formulated by fitting the probability of loan default as a function of individual evaluation attributes. Typically, these attributes are measured using a Likert-type scale, but are treated as interval scale explanatory variables to predict loan defaults. Existing models also do not distinguish between types of default, although they vary: default by an insolven...

We present a supervised learning approach to transcription factor binding site modeling for four distinct species. Using the consensus scoring method, we look at binding sites of unequal length and the alignment strategy associated with these binding sites. Pairwise scoring and information content were added to the consensus scoring to further increase accuracy of transcription factor binding s...

one of the effective solutions for improving the efficiency of economy is credit scoring in banking industry. this mechanism causes fair capital distribution in society, increasing the speed, accuracy and efficiency of money circulation from suppliers to suppliants, increasing transparency ,public confidence and finally decreasing financial crimes and improving safety and welfare in the society...

PURPOSE Trastuzumab is the cornerstone for treatment of women with HER2-overexpressing breast cancer, both in the adjuvant and in the metastatic settings. The accurate assessment of HER2 is, therefore, critical to identifying patients who may benefit from trastuzumab-based therapy. This project aimed to determine the optimal scoring method for fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) assay. ...

The Speaking Skill Evaluation (SSE) technologies are derived from speech recognition technologies and are used for language learning and instructing. In this paper, an effective automatic pronunciation scoring method for SSE systems is proposed. The CenterDistance Continuous Probability Model (CDCPM) is incorporated to model the speech. The Merging-Based Syllable Detection Automaton (MBSDA) and...

This paper describes the HIT system and its participation in SemEval-2007 English Lexical Substitution Task. Two main steps are included in our method: candidate substitute extraction and candidate scoring. In the first step, candidate substitutes for each target word in a given sentence are extracted from WordNet. In the second step, the extracted candidates are scored and ranked using a web-b...