Our analysis used relative MUAC within the study population, a technique validated in prior work with children and adults, 72– 75 because there is debate concerning optimal MUAC cutoff points for signifying acute malnutrition, how such cutoffs differ between women and men, 76– 80 and the fact that there is no evidence that non-pygmy derived MUAC cutoffs are valid withinon-pygmy derivedns.
Planned comparisons are based on testing a specific hypothesis that centers around a defined set of gene families and rests on known, validated outcomes from prior work, in this case involving both in vivo and in vitro demonstrations of oxidative stress from the organophosphates.
To help users with automatically reformatting and validating spreadsheets and other datasets, prior work introduced a user-extensible data model called "topes" and a supporting visual programming language.
To validate the proposed approach, however, the prior work has mainly focused on the performances of motion classification and detection rather than the accuracy of estimated postures and actions (e.g., 3D human skeleton models).
Secondary outcomes also include patient perspectives on the structure of their care, as measured by two instruments which have been translated and validated for our population in our prior work: Patient Assessment of Care for Chronic Conditions (PACIC) and interpersonal processes of care (IPC) [ 33, 55, 56].
Unlike the behavior/aging signature, no prior work exists with which to validate this signature.
Our prior work over 2005 and 2006 validated the feasibility of our method to identify retrospectively transferable cases using IR DRG in-patient groups and exclusion criteria based mainly on severity of illness for same encounters.
Notably, prior work showed that the crystallographic experimental approach is validated for the detection of such localized conformational changes in the hinge region should they be present.
The work reported here was trained and validated on the same i2b2 challenge datasets, which allows for comparison to prior work.
