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The Removal Index for Evaluation of Dialysis
Peritoneal Dialysis International: Journal of the International Society for Peritoneal Dialysis, 1996Objectives To find an index of adequacy that takes into consideration the effect of the decreasing concentration of urea nitrogen in hemodialysis (HD) and can be used before treatments to quantitate the prescriptions with the same criterion for both HD and continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis (CAPD).
T W, Chen +3 more
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An index for evaluating wear of teeth
Acta Odontologica Scandinavica, 1987An index for evaluation of dental wear based on Ryge's system comprising three satisfactory and two not acceptable categories was tested in two different age groups of individuals with brain damage. Group 1 consisted of 12 individuals, 3 women and 9 men, with a mean age of 34.5 years.
G, Oilo, B L, Dahl, G, Hatle, A L, Gad
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Evaluation of machine-aided indexing†
Information Processing & Management, 1976Abstract The Defense Documentation Center (DDC), a field activity of the Defense Supply Agency, implemented an automated indexing procedure in October 1973. This Machine-Aided Indexing (MAI) System [1] had been under development since 1969. The following is a report of several comparisons designed to measure the retrieval effectiveness of MAI and ...
Paul H. Klingbiel, Catherine C. Rinker
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An index for the evaluation of growth in children
The Indian Journal of Pediatrics, 1979Proper assessment of a child's growth as time passes is essential as a guide for treatment of disease or disability. The best possible progress for the child who has genetic or acquired handicaps is promoted in various ways, but principally by helping the parents to understand the particular needs of their child at each stage and to protect it from ...
A R, Chaurasia, J, Pattankar
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An Evaluation of Indexes for Periodontal Health
The Journal of the American Dental Association, 1970Investigators have developed various indexes to evaluate periodontal disease. The indexes are themselves evaluated in this study, and the best clinical indicator of gingival health is found to be dental plaque.
J E, Orban, R E, Stallard, C L, Bandt
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Evaluation of video sequence indexing and hierarchical video indexing
SPIE Proceedings, 1995As a first step to creating a video database, a video sequence has to be segmented into several subsequences based on significant changes in the scene. This enables the media user to identify the whole or a part of the sequence and to retrieve scenes of interest from a large video database.
Ullas Gargi +4 more
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Performance Evaluation of the Silhouette Index
2015This article provides the performance evaluation of the Silhouette index, which is based on the so called silhouette width. However, the index can be calculated in two ways, and so, the first approach uses the mean of the mean silhouettes through all the clusters. On the other hand, the second one is realized by averaging the silhouettes over the whole
Artur Starczewski, Adam Krzyzak
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An index for evaluating difficulty of Chewing Index for chewable tablets
Drug Development and Industrial Pharmacy, 2013Chewing difficulty index, a potential measure of difficulty in chewing the chewable tablets, has been described herein as the product of tablet thickness and tablet hardness measured under the diametral loading. The proposed index was evaluated by measuring the dimensions and mechanical strength of commercial and in-house prepared chewable tablets ...
Abhay, Gupta +2 more
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Computing and Evaluating the Body Laughter Index
2012The EU-ICT FET Project ILHAIRE is aimed at endowing machines with automated detection, analysis, and synthesis of laughter. This paper describes the Body Laughter Index (BLI) for automated detection of laughter starting from the analysis of body movement captured by a video source.
MANCINI, MAURIZIO +3 more
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Evaluation of Nation Brand Indexes
2018In this chapter, we argue that while a vague and ambiguous conceptual foundation has been a key driver for the expansion of the field of nation branding, it constitutes a major hindrance to the further development of the field. We locate this paradox in how nation brand indexes have a strong appeal in terms of their capacity for reducing complexity ...
Merkelsen, Henrik +1 more
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