Empirical evaluation on a medical text database OHSUMED shows that MQG greatly outperforms several state-of-the-art techniques, including those that expand queries by a complete dictionary of medical terms and their equivalence terms in retrieval. Moreover, it reduces the load incurred to the ...
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. correlation the association between two VARIABLES such that when one changes in magnitude the other one does also, i.e. there is a CONCOMITANT VARIATION. Correlation may be positive...
2.In intelligence usage, the process which associates and combines data on a single entity or subject from independent observations, in order to improve the reliability or credibility of the information. Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms. US Department of Defense 2005. ...
Results: The parathormone level was significantly higher (p=0.006) and vitamin D level was significantly lower (p=0.01) in the patient group compared with the control group. However, the two groups were similar in terms of albumin-corrected calcium levels, which were within the normal range (...
TCM syndrome is a diagnostic concept which is unique to TCM, and summarizes the pathology in terms of the location, causes, nature and trend of the disease, and provides the pathological essence of the current state of the disease [6]. Good TCM syndrome differentiation requires diagnosis by a...
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From a clinical perspective, neurodegenerative diseases are often also defined in terms of their predominant symptom (e.g. AD by memory impairment or PD by parkinsonism), but in reality, present as highly heterogenous diseases, with symptoms spanning multiple domains including neuropsychiatric symptoms6...
the employment status of the spouses, the presence of children in the household, the Townsend deprivation index, household type and rural/urban location. For any accelerometer measures, we also investigated differences between spouses in terms of the season of wear, time difference in wear and acti...
In present study, the data of standardised death rates of malignant neoplasms per 100000 inhabitants in 31 European countries during 19942013 were used to analyze linear correlations between eight types of cancers in terms of induced death rates. The results showed that most pairs of cancers closely...
Monte Carlo simulations reveal that the Phi and Pearson correlation statistics performs equally well in terms of size, power, and bias for naturally dichotomous variables. When both variables are artificially dichotomized, the Tetrachoric statistic has an edge in terms of bias to Pearson correlation ...