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The study concluded that BNP had very high negative predictive value at a cut-off value of 100 pg/ml. Subsequently making it appropriate as a rule‐out test for heart failure. The measurement of BNP level provided high accuracy in diagnosis of heart failure as compared to clinical assessment.( Maisel A S, Krishnaswamy P

Comparative Value of Real Time and Conventional PCR in Antenatal Gender Determination Naglaa Ibrahim Azab1, *, Rabab Fawzi Salim1, Mohamed A. Hadi Farag2 1 Department of Medical Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine, Benha University, Benha – Egypt. 2 Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Faculty of Medicine, Benha University, Benha – Egypt. *Corresponding author naglaa1270@yahoo.com, naglaa.azab@fmed.bu.edu.eg ABSTRACT Invasive procedures including chorionic villus sampling and amniocentesis

(A) Statements:-1 • Firstly case mix distributes a fixed state budget based on the type and number of patients treated and the average of patients treated and the average cost of treating patients as reported by hospitals. • Case mix based funding is used to purchase an agreed services at an agreed patients. • It is based on the average cost of treating patients. • Case mix provides incentive to treat patients for the fewest inputs. • This type of funding helps determine hospital budgets and hospital

prostate-specific antigen (PSA) value coupled with free PSA% (FPSA%) to reduce the number of unnecessary biopsies performed on benign prostate disease while identifying significant tumors of prostate cancer (PCa). The study involved 2,225 Caucasian patients who experienced biopsies between the years of 1995 and 2012 and were in the Biobank. The patients were stratified into four age groups: < or = 49 years, 50-60 years, 60-69 years, and > or = 70 years. To determine the new PSA cutoff values, scenarios were simulated

Bipolar Disorder II (BPD-II) is a relatively new disorder, first appearing in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 4th Edition (DSM-IV) as a separate condition to Bipolar Disorder I (BPD-I), which until then was deemed as being a personality style (Parker, 2015). BPD-II is more often than not described as being the “lite” version of BPD-I (Phelps, 2012) thought to have much less incapacitating effects on the individual however; its disease burden is comparable to that of BPD-I

volume (SVfc) after a small loading dose of fluid. Theoretically, at a steep portion of the Frank-Starling curve, SVfc after fluid loading would be greater than at a plateau portion. Therefore, greater SVfc after small fluid loading could indicate positive fluid responsiveness. Several studies have shown that a mini-fluid challenge could predict fluid responsiveness

Many online auction sites help consumers bid on items they might want to possess. These sites include eBay, WebStore, ebid, OnlineAuction, OZtion, Overstock, and a whole slew of others. Currently there is no system to protect consumers from fraudulent sales. When someone bids for an item, consumers trust both the seller and the online auctioneer to be both honest and ethical when presenting items for bid. Many of the auction houses, including Sotheby's and Christie's have their experts examine

First of all, I would like to mention that it is more reasonable to compare the models that are based on the same data, so I tried to use the same variables and the same missing value treatment approach (excluding decision tree) to all of the models. All the 3 models showed a performance of nearly the same quality, according to the various lift charts produced and presented in the further parts of the report. However, the difference becomes more evident on the % captured response and the most

Objective The objective of Study 1 (S1) was to review the relationship between antioxidants from diet and supplements and risk of PCa. The antioxidants included were vitamin E, selenium, vitamin C, carotenoids, and polyphenols from coffee and tea. Combination studies were also included. Method The method of S1 was a literature search utilizing the database Pubmed for studies that contained subheadings of diet, antioxidants, and prostatic neoplasms. The reference of selected studies was reviewed

multidimensional space that separates cases of different class labels. SVM supports both regression and classification tasks and can handle multiple continuous and categorical variables. For categorical variables a dummy variable is created with case values as either 0 or 1. Thus, a categorical dependent variable consisting of three levels, say (A, B, C), is represented by a set of three dummy variables: A:{1 0 0}, B: {0 1 0}, c:{0 0 1} To construct an optimal hyperplane, SVM employs an iterative