It is out of the question that arms go into Syria in confusion". It is also beyond doubt that a long predicted milestone in the Syrian conflict has now been reached.
Although prognostic predictions are useful for guiding the selection of the treatment modality, they might lose their accuracy once a patient passes the predicted milestone.
This paper describes a new method to map the structure of the design process and clarify the milestones and predict the dates of these milestones.
Recently, efforts have been made to define molecular markers, or clinical milestones, that predict the course of patient outcomes more reliably than cytogenetics but, to-date, such findings are not fully reproducible.
We take the MAQC-II multiple myeloma dataset to predict the overall survival milestone outcome (OSMO, 730-day cutoff) and to predict event-free survival milestone outcome (EFSMO, 730-day cutoff).
According to the Rowan and Rutgers report, New Jersey is poised to become the first state to develop every acre of unprotected land, a milestone researchers predict will happen "sometime within the middle of the century".
Not until chlorine falls below 1990s levels, a milestone scientists predict for sometime between 2015 and 2030, will the phase-out of ozone-depleting substances begin to have a discernible effect.
Nobody anywhere could or would have predicted those two milestones for the boy from Shotley Bridge when he started out nine years ago.
A digital eternity has passed – almost six hundred billion ticks of the UNIX clock – and yet here we still are; the same prophets predicting the same milestones in the same timeframes.
A U.S. EPA committee (Brennan et al. 2003) previously defined a series of human age groups based on behavioral and physiologic milestones likely to predict changes in exposure rates (Table 3).
