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ABSTRACT Background Central nervous system (CNS) involvement in childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) is assessed by cell counting and cytomorphology from cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) and is used for treatment stratification worldwide. The ratio of “CNS2” patients in clinical trials ranges from 3% to 40%, with unclear prognostic significance ...
Laura Almási +14 more
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ABSTRACT Objective To compare the efficacy and safety of roxarestat versus recombinant human erythropoietin (rhEPO) in the management of renal anemia in patients undergoing maintenance hemodialysis. Methods This was a prospective, open‐label, randomized controlled trial.
Lingling Chen, Junjie Zhu, Qiaonan Ge
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Interpretability of Composite Indicators Based on Principal Components
Principal component approaches are often used in the construction of composite indicators to summarize the information of input variables. The gain of dimension reduction comes at the cost of difficulties in interpretation, inaccurate targeting, and ...
Kris Boudt +3 more
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Robust functional principal components: A projection-pursuit approach [PDF]
In many situations, data are recorded over a period of time and may be regarded as realizations of a stochastic process. In this paper, robust estimators for the principal components are considered by adapting the projection pursuit approach to the ...
Bali, Juan Lucas +3 more
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ABSTRACT Introduction Bloodstream infections due to repeated vascular access (VA) puncture and circuit connections remain major concerns in hemodialysis. Therefore, we examined current practices for glove, disinfectant, and personal protective equipment (PPE) use according to VA type in national university hospitals in Japan.
Aiko Yamada +6 more
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COPD phenotype description using principal components analysis
Background Airway inflammation in COPD can be measured using biomarkers such as induced sputum and FeNO. This study set out to explore the heterogeneity of COPD using biomarkers of airway and systemic inflammation and pulmonary function by principal ...
Vestbo Jørgen +5 more
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ABSTRACT Introduction Patients requiring long‐term continuous renal replacement therapy (CRRT) generally have poor prognoses. This study evaluated whether adding continuous intravenous sodium infusion (cIVNa) is associated with improved hemodynamics and outcomes in patients undergoing long‐term CRRT for ≥ 7 days.
Akinori Yamaguchi +6 more
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Generating Facial Composites from Principal Components
Penetrating computers and process automation into all the fields of human activity meant a breakthrough in the research of forensic methods applied on facial composite production.
Zahradnikova Barbora +2 more
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FACIAL EXPRESSION RECOGNITION BASED ON PRINCIPAL COMPONENTS ANALYSIS [PDF]
Recognizing facial expression is one of the most effective applications of image processing and has obtained great attention in latest years. A recognition system for facial expression is a computer based application which detects an individual facial ...
A. Hewa, O. Nomir, A. Saleh
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A new statistical method for the comparison of biplots with the same objects and variables
Ordinations are compared most commonly by Procrustes methods applicable to points belonging to the same domain, either the objects or the variables describing them.
Attila István Engloner, János Podani
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