Though Boschen & Oei [ 16] concluded that both MASQ specific scales demonstrated weak clinical utility, we argue that the predictive utility of the AD scale (73%) may be high enough for clinical and research use.
Although the results of Dennis and colleagues [ 1] are scientifically important and demonstrate the importance of gene expression profiling in the search for predictive biomarkers, the individual patient-based ROC analyses show only modest predictive ability and therefore weak clinical utility.
Regarding the latter point, PCT is known to have weaker diagnostic utility in patients with nosocomial pneumonia because hospitalized patients generally have higher exposure to bacterial infections independently of potential pneumonia [ 27, 28].
Journal of Public Economics 6, 55 75.] is that differential commodity taxation is not optimal in the presence of an optimal nonlinear income tax (given weak separability of utility between labor and all consumption goods).
Brokerage stocks were among the weakest of nontechnology groups, but drugs and airlines were also weak and even utilities, a traditional haven, failed to gain.
Such a transformation causes differences in attributes to have a stronger or weaker impact on utility, respectively.
Pacific Gas and Electric said that one of its gas suppliers, J. Aron & Company, had stopped deliveries because of the utility's weak financial situation, and two others, Western Resources Inc. and the Duke Energy Corporation, were threatening to do so next week.
The cryptocurrency space has been dominated by bold claims, weak follow-through, limited utility and plenty of scams.
The study of the Basque trawl fisheries operating in the North East Atlantic in the period 1996 2005 shows that the utility of weak sustainability is limited to the comparison of sustainability between fisheries.
Overall, we conclude that any correlation between the expression of these miRNAs and age is too weak to affect the utility of these miRNAs as biomarkers for myeloma.
