A Model and Application for Estimating Completeness of Registration

2001 ◽  
Vol 40 (02) ◽  
pp. 122-126 ◽  
Author(s):  
W.-J. Stronegger ◽  
K.-D. Wernecke ◽  
A. Berghold
Keyword(s):  
Down Syndrome ◽  
Demographic Data ◽  
Population Based ◽  
Quality Of Information ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Time Varying Parameters ◽  
Capture Recapture ◽  
Completeness Of Reporting ◽  
Good Agreement

AbstractCompleteness of population-based registration systems is recognized to be an important aspect of the quality of information in registries which has to be examined. In this paper a model is presented which was used to estimate completeness of reporting of Down syndrome data notified to the Styrian Malformation registry between 1985-92. The model introduced is based on the two-source capture-recapture method allowing for time-varying parameters. For estimation of the parameters a discrete-time filtering algorithm was developed. For the used data set, an estimate of completeness derived from this model was in good agreement with an independent estimator based on demographic data and maternal age-specific Down syndrome risks whereas the usual two-source capture-recapture method gave a higher estimate.

scholarly journals Development, Problem Behavior, and Quality of Life in a Population Based Sample of Eight-Year-Old Children with Down Syndrome

PLoS ONE ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 6 (7) ◽  
pp. e21879 ◽  
Author(s):  
Helma B. M. van Gameren-Oosterom ◽  
Minne Fekkes ◽  
Simone E. Buitendijk ◽  
Ashna D. Mohangoo ◽  
Jeanet Bruil ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Down Syndrome ◽  
Problem Behavior ◽  
Population Based ◽  
Children With Down Syndrome ◽  
Development Problem

scholarly journals Comparison of HDO measurements from Envisat/MIPAS with observations by Odin/SMR and SCISAT/ACE-FTS

2011 ◽  
Vol 4 (9) ◽  
pp. 1855-1874 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Lossow ◽  
J. Steinwagner ◽  
J. Urban ◽  
E. Dupuy ◽  
C. D. Boone ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Thermal Emission ◽  
Absolute Amount ◽  
Data Sets ◽  
Altitude Range ◽  
Data Set ◽  
High Consistency ◽  
The Tropics ◽  
The Antarctic ◽  
Good Agreement

Abstract. Measurements of thermal emission in the mid-infrared by Envisat/MIPAS allow the retrieval of HDO information roughly in the altitude range between 10 km and 50 km. From June 2002 to March 2004 MIPAS performed measurements in the full spectral resolution mode. To assess the quality of the HDO data set obtained during that period comparisons with measurements by Odin/SMR and SCISAT/ACE-FTS were performed. Comparisons were made on profile-to-profile basis as well as using seasonal and monthly averages. All in all the comparisons yield favourable results. The largest deviations between MIPAS and ACE-FTS are observed below 15 km, where relative deviations can occasionally exceed 100%. Despite these deviations in the absolute amount of HDO the latitudinal structures observed by both instruments are consistent in this altitude range. Between 15 km and 20 km there is less good agreement, in particular in the Antarctic during winter and spring. Also in the tropics some deviations are found. Above 20 km there is a high consistency in the structures observed by all three instruments. MIPAS and ACE-FTS typically agree within 10%, with MIPAS mostly showing higher abundances than ACE-FTS. Both data sets show considerably more HDO than SMR. This bias can be explained basically by uncertainties in spectroscopic parameters. Above 40 km, where the MIPAS HDO retrieval reaches its limits, still good agreement with the structures observed by SMR is found for most seasons. This puts some confidence in the MIPAS data at these altitudes.

scholarly journals Capture - Recapture based Study on The Completeness of Smear Positive Pulmonary Tuberculosis Reporting in southwest Iran during 2016

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Homayoun Amiri ◽  
Mohammad javad Mohammadi ◽  
Seyed Mohammad alavi ◽  
Shokrolah Salmanzadeh ◽  
Fatemeh Hematnia ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Pulmonary Tuberculosis ◽  
Causes Of Death ◽  
Control Program ◽  
Health Centers ◽  
The Status ◽  
Smear Positive Pulmonary Tuberculosis ◽  
Capture Recapture ◽  
Southwest Iran ◽  
Completeness Of Reporting

Abstract Background Tuberculosis (TB) is one of the ten leading causes of death in infectious diseases and one of the ten leading causes of death in the world. For any TB control program, a reliable surveillance is essential. In order to assess the status of the Surveillance, the quality of the record and the completeness of reporting should be assessed. The purpose of this study was to investigate the completeness of smear positive pulmonary tuberculosis reporting in Ahvaz of Iran. Methods The study was conducted through a Three-source Capture recapture method by collecting laboratory, hospital, and physician reporting data - including introducing patients to health centers and reviewing drug and laboratory prescriptions. Data analysis was performed using linear logarithm model in Rcapture package R software. Results In total, 134 new cases of smear-positive pulmonary tuberculosis were reported through three sources During 2016. The completeness of reporting the disease was estimated 87.5% and the incidence rate was estimated to be 11.8 / 100,000. Completeness of reporting of laboratory, hospital and physician resources were 79%, 30% and 16.3%, respectively. Conclusion The present study showed the necessity of evaluating the quality, completeness and linkage between data. Linking between data sources can improve the accuracy and completeness of TB Surveillance.

Sp Receiver-Function Images of African and Arabian Lithosphere: Survey of Newly Available Broadband Data

2020 ◽  
Vol 91 (3) ◽  
pp. 1813-1819 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lin Liu ◽  
Siyou Tong ◽  
Sanzhong Li ◽  
Saleh Qaysi
Keyword(s):  
Temporal Evolution ◽  
Receiver Function ◽  
Receiver Functions ◽  
Plate Boundaries ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Seismic Stations ◽  
Spatial Coverage ◽  
Teleseismic Events ◽  
Good Agreement

Abstract The growing quality and improving spatial coverage of broadband seismic stations on the African (Nubian + Somalian) and Arabian plates motivate us to present a catalog of S-to-P receiver functions (SRFs) from southern Africa to northern Arabia. As in North America where the ability to compare data from cratons to modern rift provinces has led to new insights about lithospheric discontinuities, so, too, in Africa and Arabia can we begin to track and study the Moho, midlithospheric discontinuities, and the lithosphere–asthenosphere boundary (LAB) between tectonothermal provinces and beneath plate boundaries. We utilized 1508 seismic stations recording 9349 teleseismic events to calculate 103,878 SRFs that we stacked in 1° circular bins. We find a robust positive arrival due to a seismic-wavespeed increase downward across the Moho in virtually all our stacked SRF traces at 15–55 km depth, and we verify this is in good agreement with previously published Ps results, thereby validating the quality of our data set. Our stacked SRF traces also show a sub-Moho negative arrival at a delay time equivalent to 50–132 km depth that should correspond to a negative velocity discontinuity at or above the LAB. Our continent-wide, plate-scale database offers the opportunity to explore for spatial and temporal evolution of lithospheric parameters.

scholarly journals Comparison of HDO measurements from Envisat/MIPAS with observations by Odin/SMR and SCISAT/ACE-FTS

2011 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 1677-1721
Author(s):  
S. Lossow ◽  
J. Steinwagner ◽  
J. Urban ◽  
E. Dupuy ◽  
C. D. Boone ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Thermal Emission ◽  
Data Sets ◽  
Monthly Means ◽  
Altitude Range ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Mid Infrared ◽  
High Consistency ◽  
The Antarctic ◽  
Good Agreement

Abstract. Measurements of thermal emission in the mid-infrared by Envisat/MIPAS allow the retrieval of HDO information roughly in the altitude range between 10 km and 50 km. From September 2002 to March 2004 MIPAS performed measurements in the full spectral mode. To assess the quality of the HDO data set obtained during that period comparisons with measurements by Odin/SMR and SCISAT/ACE-FTS were performed. Comparisons were made on profile-to-profile basis as well as using seasonal and monthly means. All in all the comparisons yield favourable results. The largest deviations between MIPAS and ACE-FTS are observed below 15 km, where relative deviations can occasionally exceed 100%. Despite that the latitudinal structures observed by both instruments fit. Between 15 km and 20 km there is less consistency, especially in the Antarctic during winter and spring. Above 20 km there is a high consistency in the structures observed by all three instruments. MIPAS and ACE-FTS typically agree within 10%, with MIPAS mostly showing higher abundances than ACE-FTS. Both data sets show considerably more HDO than SMR. This bias can mostly be explained by uncertainties in spectroscopic parameters. Above 40 km, where the MIPAS HDO retrieval reaches its limits, still good agreement with the structures observed by SMR is found for most seasons. This puts some confidence in the MIPAS data at these altitudes.

scholarly journals Annotation and initial evaluation of a large annotated German oncological corpus

JAMIA Open ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Madeleine Kittner ◽  
Mario Lamping ◽  
Damian T Rieke ◽  
Julian Götze ◽  
Bariya Bajwa ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Information Extraction ◽  
Named Entity Recognition ◽  
Entity Recognition ◽  
Medical Texts ◽  
Quality Of Information ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Named Entity ◽  
Negation Detection ◽  
Discharge Summaries

Abstract Objective We present the Berlin-Tübingen-Oncology corpus (BRONCO), a large and freely available corpus of shuffled sentences from German oncological discharge summaries annotated with diagnosis, treatments, medications, and further attributes including negation and speculation. The aim of BRONCO is to foster reproducible and openly available research on Information Extraction from German medical texts. Materials and Methods BRONCO consists of 200 manually deidentified discharge summaries of cancer patients. Annotation followed a structured and quality-controlled process involving 2 groups of medical experts to ensure consistency, comprehensiveness, and high quality of annotations. We present results of several state-of-the-art techniques for different IE tasks as baselines for subsequent research. Results The annotated corpus consists of 11 434 sentences and 89 942 tokens, annotated with 11 124 annotations for medical entities and 3118 annotations of related attributes. We publish 75% of the corpus as a set of shuffled sentences, and keep 25% as held-out data set for unbiased evaluation of future IE tools. On this held-out dataset, our baselines reach depending on the specific entity types F1-scores of 0.72–0.90 for named entity recognition, 0.10–0.68 for entity normalization, 0.55 for negation detection, and 0.33 for speculation detection. Discussion Medical corpus annotation is a complex and time-consuming task. This makes sharing of such resources even more important. Conclusion To our knowledge, BRONCO is the first sizable and freely available German medical corpus. Our baseline results show that more research efforts are necessary to lift the quality of information extraction in German medical texts to the level already possible for English.

PENGARUH KUALITAS INFORMASI DAN KUALITAS LAYANAN TERHADAP SIKAP DALAM PENGGUNAAN SISTEM APLIKASI DENGAN KEMUDAHAN PENGGUNAAN SEBAGAI VARIABEL INTERVENING PADA JASA TRANSPORTASI ONLINE (GOJEK) DI YOGYAKARTA

2019 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 119-133
Author(s):  
Putri Aprilia Isnaini ◽  
Ida Bagus Nyoman Udayana
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Quality Of Service ◽  
Information Quality ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Ease Of Use ◽  
Quality Of Services ◽  
Quality Of Information ◽  
Transportation Services ◽  
Application Systems

This writing is done to determine the effect of information quality and service quality on attitudes in the use of application systems with the ease of use of the system as an intervining variable in online transportation services (gojek) in Yogyakarta. The sample in this study is customers who use online motorcycle transportation services in Yogyakarta. The sampling technique uses accidental sampling technique. Data collection is done by distributing online questionnaires through the Goegle form and distributed with social media such as WhatsApp and Instagram on a 1-4 scale to measure 4 indicators. The results of this study show 1) the quality of information affects the ease of use, 2) the quality of service affects the ease of use, 3) the quality of information influences attitudes in use, 4) the quality of services does not affect attitudes in use, and 5) ease of use attitude in use.

Maqâṣid Al-Qur’ân In The Interpretation of M. Quraish Shihab About The Verse of Social Media Usage

2020 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 44
Author(s):  
Johar Arifin ◽  
Ilyas Husti ◽  
Khairunnas Jamal ◽  
Afriadi Putra
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Quality Of Information ◽  
Media Usage ◽  
Large Group ◽  
Six Elements ◽  
Written Law ◽  
Use Of Social Media ◽  
The Universe

This article aims to explain maqâṣid al-Qur’ân according to M. Quraish Shihab and its application in interpreting verses related to the use of social media. The problem that will be answered in this article covers two main issues, namely how the perspective of maqâṣid al-Qur’ân according to M. Quraish Shihab and how it is applied in interpreting the verses of the use of social media. The method used is the thematic method, namely discussing verses based on themes. Fr om this study the authors concluded that according to M. Quraish Shihab there are six elements of a large group of universal goals of the al-Qur’ân, namely strengthening the faith, humans as caliphs, unifying books, law enforcement, callers to the ummah of wasathan, and mastering world civilization. The quality of information lies in the strength of the monotheistic dimension which is the highest peak of the Qur’anic maqâṣid. M. Quraish Shihab offers six diction which can be done by recipients of information in interacting on social media. Thus, it aims to usher in the knowledge and understanding of what is conveyed in carrying out human mission as caliph, enlightenment through oral and written, law enforcement, unifying mankind and the universe to the ummah of wasathan, and mastery of world civilization

Assessing the quality of public health in the Russian Federation and Israel: Main problems and solutions

2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 618-632
Author(s):  
A.S. Panchenko
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Russian Federation ◽  
Population Based ◽  
The Public ◽  
Disability Adjusted Life ◽  
Problems And Solutions ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
Disability Adjusted Life Year ◽  
Practical Recommendations

Subject. The article addresses the public health in the Russian Federation and Israel. Objectives. The focus is on researching the state of public health in Russia and Israel, using the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) project methodology, identifying problem areas and searching for possible ways to improve the quality of health of the Russian population based on the experience of Israel. Methods. The study draws on the ideology of the GBD project, which is based on the Disability-Adjusted Life-Year (DALY) metric. Results. The paper reveals the main causes of DALY losses and important risk factors for cancer for Russia and Israel. The findings show that the total DALY losses for Russia exceed Israeli values. The same is true for cancer diseases. Conclusions. Activities in Israel aimed at improving the quality of public health, the effectiveness of which has been proven, can serve as practical recommendations for Russia. The method of analysis, using the ideology of the GBD project, can be used as a tool for quantitative and comparative assessment of the public health.

MEDIATEXT IS A TOOL THAT DETERMINES THE QUALITY OF INFORMATION

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 158-164
Author(s):  
Navruza Yakhyayeva ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Functional Properties ◽  
Linguistic Features ◽  
Text Linguistics ◽  
Quality Of Information ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Linguistic Units ◽  
Scientific Classification

The quality and content of information in the article media text is based on scientific classification of linguistic features. The study of functional styles of speech, the identification of their linguistic signs, the discovery of the functional properties of linguistic units and their separation on the basis of linguistic facts is one of thetasks that modern linguistics is waiting for a solution. Text Linguistics, which deals with the creation, modeling of its structure and the study of the process of such activity, is of interest to journalists today as a science.

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