Technical solution skills - though important - are not enough for effective, multicultural teamwork. Despite broad consensus on the vital function of communication- and social skills, they tend to be underrepresented ...
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(纸本)9781509059201
Technical solution skills - though important - are not enough for effective, multicultural teamwork. Despite broad consensus on the vital function of communication- and social skills, they tend to be underrepresented in the training of software-engineers and project managers. This is partly because such skills are less explicit than technical methods, tools, and artefacts. To address this deficiency, an openly accessible web-based communication model for multicultural teams (comMCT) was developed. It consists of four modules addressing structural, functional, organizational, and interpersonal/behavioral aspects of multicultural communication. After presenting the empirically validated comMCT model, two scenarios of introducing comMCT into two academic courses within the computer science curriculum at the University of Vienna are discussed, along with the students' reactions and an online questionnaire capturing students' feedback on comMCT. In a nutshell, thoughtful, person-centered application of the model is expected to enhance learners' knowledge, practice, and reflection on communication issues and contribute to more effective and satisfied multicultural teams. Importantly, instructors as well as life-long learning program designers will find inspiration on including comMCT into their courses.
In this paper, an approach is proposed for correcting article errors in English translation results in order to improve the performance of a NIT system. We check the article and the singular/plural form of the headwor...
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(纸本)0780393619
In this paper, an approach is proposed for correcting article errors in English translation results in order to improve the performance of a NIT system. We check the article and the singular/plural form of the headword in a NP at the same time. This is different from most of early researches in which only articles are considered. Our correcting algorithm is based on simple, viable n-gram model whose parameters can be obtained using the WWW search engine Google. Using much less features than those used in the early researches, we experimentally showed that our approach could perform the promising results with a precision of 86.2% on all classes of article errors.
A web-based custom hiring model was developed to help farmers and custom-hiring service providers take decisions regarding owning/custom hiring of combine harvester for rice-wheat cropping system. It also gives the br...
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A web-based custom hiring model was developed to help farmers and custom-hiring service providers take decisions regarding owning/custom hiring of combine harvester for rice-wheat cropping system. It also gives the break-even acreage for owning a combine harvester along with various cost economics. The model was evaluated for two situations: situation I with own area of 100 acres and custom-hiring catchment area of 160 acres combined under rice and wheat, and situation II with own area and custom-hiring catchment area being 60 and 276 acres respectively. For situation I the model guided the user to opt for custom-hiring, while for situation II it gave a decision to own a combine harvester.
Purpose Numerous strategies and diagnostic tests were proposed in patients suspected of clinically significant (cs) prostate cancer (PCa) after an initial negative prostate biopsy. The study aimed to create a Random F...
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Purpose Numerous strategies and diagnostic tests were proposed in patients suspected of clinically significant (cs) prostate cancer (PCa) after an initial negative prostate biopsy. The study aimed to create a Random Forest (RF) classifier for predicting the probability of csPCa in specimens taken by the repeated systematic prostate biopsy (SBx), and to determine its diagnostic accuracy and clinical utility. Methods This retrospective, single-center study included patients who underwent repeated SBx due to clinical suspicion of cancer. Data on patient age, serum prostate-specific antigen (PSA) levels, prostate volume, digital rectal examination, first-degree family history, and histology findings from the SBx were collected for all patients. The area under the curve (AUC), and secondary metrics of clinical prediction models were used to assess their discriminative abilities. Clinical usefulness of final model was tested by the decision curve analysis (DCA). The explainability and website placement of the ML model were also performed. Results In total, 204 patients were eligible for analysis. The csPCa was detected in 26% (n = 53) patients. The AUC, accuracy, sensitivity, and specificity for detection of csPCa were 0.94, 0.91, 0.84, and 0.98, respectively. With an optimal threshold of 0.8, about 34% of unnecessary biopsies would be avoided, but correct diagnosis would be delayed in 4.4% csPC cases. PSA level, prostate volume, and age were the top-ranked variables in the RF model. Conclusion The RF classifier predicts csPCa with good accuracy and may help urologists when deciding whether the repeated biopsy is necessary to avoid being too invasive.
PurposeThe prostate-specific antigen (PSA) density (PSAD) in prostate cancer (PCa) detection has limited applicability and is probably caused by moderate accuracy. The purpose of this study was to create a machine lea...
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PurposeThe prostate-specific antigen (PSA) density (PSAD) in prostate cancer (PCa) detection has limited applicability and is probably caused by moderate accuracy. The purpose of this study was to create a machine learning (ML) PSAD model that incorporates PSAD predictors for forecasting clinically significant (cs) prostate cancer (PCa) probability and compare its performance to that of the traditional *** and prostate volume (PV) were retrieved from the 725 patients that were subjected to prostate biopsy. After resampling and splitting data, we used the training set to create seven ML algorithms. We chose the RF model that was the most accurate. The area under the curve (AUC) accuracy, precision, sensitivity, and specificity of PSAD and RF PSAD diagnostic performance were compared. Additionally, the ML model's explainability and its website placement were *** was found in 140 males (19.3%). The proposed novel model exhibited much higher evolution metrics than PSAD. AUC for the PSAD and RF PSAD were 0.757 and 0.942, respectively. The reliability diagram indicates that the RF model fits the data well. For the RF model, the decision curve analysis revealed a net benefit of more than 5%, and 40% subjects could avoid unnecessary biopsy. PV was the more important determinant for csPCa. PSA and PV had non-monotonic relationships and a lot of *** RF PSAD model demonstrated strong discrimination and clinical value, which could aid urologists in determining whether a prostate biopsy is required.
BACKGROUND CONTEXT: With an increasing number of web-based calculators designed to provide the probabilities of an individual achieving improvement after lumbar spine surgery, there is a need to determine the accuracy...
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BACKGROUND CONTEXT: With an increasing number of web-based calculators designed to provide the probabilities of an individual achieving improvement after lumbar spine surgery, there is a need to determine the accuracy of these models. PURPOSE: To perform an internal and external validation study of the reduced Quality Outcomes Database web-based Calculator (QOD-Calc). PATIENT SAMPLE: Patients enrolled study-wide in Quality Outcomes Database (QOD) and patients enrolled in DaneSpine at a single institution who had elective lumbar spine surgery with baseline data to complete QOD-Calc and 12-month postoperative data. back and leg pain, EuroQOL-5D (EQ-5D). METHODS: Baseline data elements were entered into QOD-Calc to determine the probability for each patient having Any Improvement and 30% Improvement in NRS leg pain, back pain, EQ-5D and ODI. These probabilities were compared with the actual 12-month postop data for each of the QOD and DaneSpine cases. Receiver-operating characteristics analyses were performed and caliRESULTS: 24,755 QOD cases and 8,105 DaneSpine lumbar cases were included in the analysis. in the QOD cohort and moderate to acceptable ability (AUC: 0.658-0.747) to predict 30% Improvement. QOD-Calc had acceptable to exceptional ability (AUC: 0.669-0.734) to predict Any improvement and moderate to exceptional ability (AUC: 0.619-0.862) to predict 30% Improvement in the DaneSpine cohort. AUCs for the DaneSpine cohort was consistently lower that the CONCLUSION: QOD-Calc performs well in predicting outcomes in a patient population that is similar to the patients that was used to develop it. Although still acceptable, model performance was slightly worse in a distinct population, despite the fact that the sample was more homogenous. model performance may also be attributed to the low discrimination threshold, with close to 90% of cases reporting Any Improvement in outcome. Prediction models may need to be developed that are highly specific to the characteristi
Objectives To develop and validate a risk calculator for prostate cancer (PCa) and clinically significant PCa (csPCa) using explainable artificial intelligence (XAI). Patients and Methods We used data of 3791 patients...
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Objectives To develop and validate a risk calculator for prostate cancer (PCa) and clinically significant PCa (csPCa) using explainable artificial intelligence (XAI). Patients and Methods We used data of 3791 patients to develop and validate the risk calculator. We initially divided the data into development and validation sets. An extreme gradient-boosting algorithm was applied to the development calculator using five-fold cross-validation with hyperparameter tuning following feature selection in the development set. The model feature importance was determined based on the Shapley value. The area under the curve (AUC) of the receiver operating characteristic curve was analysed for each validation set of the calculator. Results Approximately 1216 (32.7%) and 562 (14.8%) patients were diagnosed with PCa and csPCa. The data of 2843 patients were used for development, whereas the data of 948 patients were used as a test set. We selected the variables for each PCa and csPCa risk calculation according to the least absolute shrinkage and selection operator regression. The AUC of the final PCa model was 0.869 (95% confidence interval [CI] 0.844-0.893), whereas that of the csPCa model was 0.945 (95% CI 0.927-0.963). The prostate-specific antigen (PSA) level, free PSA level, age, prostate volume (both the transitional zone and total), hypoechoic lesions on ultrasonography, and testosterone level were found to be important parameters in the PCa model. The number of previous biopsies was not associated with the risk of csPCa, but was negatively associated with the risk of PCa. Conclusion We successfully developed and validated a decision-supporting tool using XAI for calculating the probability of PCa and csPCa prior to prostate biopsy.
Effective management and utilisation of plant history data can considerably improve plant and equipment performance. This rationale underpins statistical and mathematical models for exploiting plant management data mo...
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Effective management and utilisation of plant history data can considerably improve plant and equipment performance. This rationale underpins statistical and mathematical models for exploiting plant management data more efficiently, but industry has been slow to adopt these models. Reasons proffered for this include: a perception of models being too complex and time consuming;and an inability of their being able to account for dynamism inherent within data sets. To help address this situation, this research developed and tested a web-based data capture and information management system. Specifically, the system represents integration of a web-enabled relational database management system (RDBMS) with a model base management system (MBMS). The RDBMS captures historical data from geographically dispersed plant sites, while the MBMS hosts a set of (Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average - ARIMA)time series models to predict plant breakdown. Using a sample of plant history file data, the system and ARIMA predictive capacity were tested. As a measure of model error, the Mean Absolute Deviation (MAD) ranged between 5.34 and 11.07 per cent for the plant items used in the test. The Root Mean Square Error (RMSE) values also showed similar trends, with the prediction model yielding the highest value of 29.79 per cent. The paper concludes with direction for future work, which includes refining the Graphical User Interface (GUI) and developing a Knowledge based Management System (KBMS) to interface with the RDBMS.
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