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Abstract:A first principle formalism is proposed for image fix to describe Taber abrasion as well as crease in a hot roll belt system, which takes into account the conditions in the nip as well as the media thickness and backup roll temperature. First order explicit relationships are derived for fuse grade performance, which agree with existing predictions and measurements. The analysis can be used to design the fusing process and select materials and hardware.
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Of all the fixtures on your house, the rain gutters may be one of the most valuable, but least attended. Rain gutters help to channel water away from your house so that the structure and foundation of your home won't be damaged. Although it may seem like your rain gutters can go on for years with no problem, it may be time to replace them. Use this information to learn more about the warning signs that it's time to install new rain gutters on your house.
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One of the telltale signs that your gutters are no longer working properly is standing water around your home. If you notice this, it's definitely time to call in the professionals so you can have your rain gutters inspected and replaced.
The purpose of rain gutters is to get the water away from your house. You don't want the …Read More
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Creole-style homes evoke the spirit of New Orleans, with its French-influenced architecture. The homes, which are found throughout the south, are best known for the roomy front porch and parallel upper balcony that cover the entire front of the house. The porch, balcony, and the roofline are highlighted with ornamental accents including iron railings and woodwork. The structure is topped off with a flat-style roof.
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When it comes to the environment, once asphalt shingles are worn, there is little that can be done with them. Oftentimes, the shingles end up in a landfill somewhere only contributing to the pollution problems in many cities. Metal roof disposal is just the opposite. The materials used for a metal roof can be recycled and used as for another roof or for some other purpose. However, the main takeaway is that the roofing materials don't end up in a …Read More
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Don Williams has covered Texas Tech football as either a beat writer or columnist for all but one year beginning in 1986. That counts two seasons he spent at the University Daily. He joined the A-J full-time in 1988.
He's covered nearly 300 Tech football games, including 19 bowls. In the 1990s, he also staffed Dallas Cowboys home games and three Super Bowls.
Some of his other beats include Tech track and field and small college basketball and baseball. He was on hand in Lewiston, Idaho, when Lubbock Christian University won the NAIA World Series in 2009.
Williams graduated from Midland College in 1985, following the Chaparrals to the NJCAA final four one year, and from Texas Tech in 1988. He interned at the Arizona Republic in 1987, where he spent the summer covering the Triple-A Phoenix Firebirds and future major leaguers Matt Williams, Terry Mulholland, Dennis Cook and Jeff Brantley and ex-major leaguer Dave Kingman. (Thankfully, Kingman, a renowned media hater, did not send a rat to Don in the press box.)
When Robert Giovannetti returned to Lubbock from an out-of-town trip last week, he noticed the roped-off Double-T had been removed from the grassy spot at the north end of Jones AT&T Stadium. The Texas Tech senior associate athletic director knew that was coming, but not last week.
It made him sentimental.
Michael Mathieu has been named to the Bahamas' Olympic track and field team, giving the former Texas Tech sprinter a chance to medal at three consecutive Olympic Games.
Mathieu, 32, was chosen for the Bahamas' 1,600-meter relay pool, announced late last week. He and the Bahamas team won silver in that event in 2008 at Beijing and won gold in 2012 at London.
Trailing by three strokes with two holes to play, Michael Payne joked with a buddy that Payne and teammate Cody King needed a birdie-eagle finish to the LakeRidge Stampede.
He was on the right track.
Eagle-birdie turned out to be the ticket to an astonishing one-shot victory.
Payne holed a wedge from 108 yards and King birdied the last hole from the back fringe Sunday, giving Payne his first victory in his second start in a Lubbock major and ending King's five-year drought in the Hub City's showcase events.
LakeRidge Country Club members have had a hand in winning Lubbock's first two major golf tournaments of the year. Naturally, they want to protect home turf when the major schedule comes to their course.
Ben Greene, LakeRidge's three-time club champion, is doing his best to keep the streak intact.
Ben Greene played in the final foursome against Beau Burgess two weeks ago at Levelland's Gano Tubb Memorial golf tournament. He watched Burgess make a half dozen birdies and an eagle and didn't let him get away after the round.
"I said, 'What are you doing in two weeks?'" Greene said.
Jarred Jeter grew familiar with the Rawls Course during his two years on the Lubbock Christian University golf team. When he returned to town, his course knowledge, coupled with calm conditions and a hot putter, made for a record day.
Jeter shot a 10-under 62 Friday for a four-stroke lead after the first round of the 88th men's West Texas Amateur Championship. He started on hole No. 10 and made nine of the 10 birdies on his last 13 holes.
Last month's Hillcrest Swinger partnership produced two new first-time champions at a Lubbock major golf tournament. Blake Ashcraft and Chris McAllister opened up a five-shot lead early in the final round and held on to win.
They'd signaled good things ahead by being in the hunt with different playing partners the month before at the Reese Memorial Day Partnership. Now they'll see if they can keep it up when the LakeRidge Stampede gets under way Friday.
South Plains College track and field coach Chris Beene has a ready made recruiting pitch every year, inasmuch as the Texans this spring won their NJCAA record 10th consecutive national championship. That's on the men's side, and the women's team's not far behind.
This year, Beene can add another enticement: South Plains looks to have 10 former athletes set to compete in next month's Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.
A sportswriter once asked Texas Tech basketball coach Gene Gibson whether he'd measured Del Ray Mounts with Mounts barefoot.
"We don't know how tall he is in his bare feet," Gibson responded. "We don't need to. He doesn't play in his bare feet."
"On the program, they listed me at 5-10," Mounts said Monday. "But I never did see 5-10. I was 5-9 and three-quarters. ... I could jump pretty good."
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#201915 - linxus ONLINEhalo 4 comes out tommorw, and honestly i dont even care, and i bought halo ce, 2, 3, odst, and reach the day they came out, and i don even plan on getting 4, is there something wrong with me?
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Honestly, I'm not psyched either. I've slowly been losing interest in the Halo games since 3. I'm really only interested in the lore at this point.
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honestly im a little scared. im worried that its just gonna turn into one of those money well franchises. one of my favorite things about the past few halos is forge and firefight and there are only 2 things i wanted them to do in the new one is combine forge and firefight and let me fly the DAMN PELICAN WITHOUT MODS. and they took out firefight entirely.
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RAMAT GAN, ISRAEL -- (Marketwired) -- 05/30/14 -- The SureMote smartphone universal remote app -- the first designed to be both easy to use and fully customizable right from the phone -- will be demo'ed a Computex. [See demo video here: http://youtu.be/--86xsJVA74] SureMote from Tekoia controls smart media streaming devices and legacy appliances using either WiFi or the phone's infrared (IR) capability, all from the same app. The SureMote Computex demo (NANGANG Sky Dome -- booth# 0436) highlights the LG SmartTV and its media streaming capabilities, as well as controlling infrared appliances, such as Apple TV and the iRobot Roomba vacuum.
Demo Video here: http://youtu.be/--86xsJVA74
A typical family has four old remotes which are hard to use, non-standard and only control a limited number of devices each. Considering that remote controls were first introduced by Nikola Tesla in 1898, these devices have not made much progress in more than a century. Developing a universal remote app that is easy to use, hard to lose and works with WiFi and infrared has been a surprisingly hard problem.
Today, with the advent of the Internet of Things (IoT), the SureMote smartphone universal remote app is poised to control almost everything in your house starting with legacy IR appliances as well the new generation of WiFi-driven smart appliances. Using proprietary technology developed by Tekoia, SureMote runs on Android devices and is a platform for development of additional Smart Living functions needed for the IoT.
The SureMote design followed the principle of "Do Not Make Me Think," to create a smartphone remote app that revolutionizes the remote control user experience.
"SureMote is taking the legacy problems of remotes and moving to the future, where the Internet of Things will be controlling so many devices in the home," said Viktor Ariel, founder and CEO, Tekoia. "With SureMote we are focusing on innovation in the user experience and innovative communication technology to create a universal smartphone remote app designed from a user's point of view. We do not see the remote as an afterthought so the design is appealing. It is a painkiller solution for both appliance makers and users."
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The SureMote universal remote app:
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- Includes a new and easy-to-use interface with novel controls like the keyboard, mouse, gyro and voice to make it a fully functioning, easy-to-navigate remote
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Conducting systematic reviews of diagnostic studies: didactic guidelines
Although guidelines for critical appraisal of diagnostic research and meta-analyses have already been published, these may be difficult to understand for clinical researchers or do not provide enough detailed information.
Development of guidelines based on a systematic review of the evidence in reports of systematic searches of the literature for diagnostic research, of methodological criteria to evaluate diagnostic research, of methods for statistical pooling of data on diagnostic accuracy, and of methods for exploring heterogeneity.
Guidelines for conducting diagnostic systematic reviews are presented in a stepwise fashion and are followed by comments providing further information. Examples are given using the results of two systematic reviews on the accuracy of the urine dipstick in the diagnosis of urinary tract infections, and on the accuracy of the straight-leg-raising test in the diagnosis of intervertebral disc hernia.
Systematic reviews and meta-analyses of studies evaluating the accuracy of diagnostic tests (we will refer to them generically as diagnostic systematic reviews) are appearing more often in the medical literature
We want to present a set of practical guidelines, based on evidence and the expertise of the Cochrane Collaboration, to facilitate understanding of and appropriate adherence to methodological principles when conducting diagnostic systematic reviews.
We reviewed reports of systematic searches of the literature for diagnostic research
Guidelines for conducting diagnostic systematic reviews are presented in a stepwise fashion and are followed by comments providing further information. Examples are given using the results of two systematic reviews on the accuracy of the urine dipstick in the diagnosis of urinary tract infections
The guidelines
• How to search the literature for studies evaluating the accuracy of diagnostic tests
A systematic review should include all available evidence, so a systematic and comprehensive search of the literature is needed. The reviewer has to design a search strategy based on a clear and explicit description of the subjects receiving the test of interest, the diagnostic test and its accuracy estimates, the target disease, and the study design. These elements are usually specified in the criteria for inclusion of primary studies in the review. The search will include electronic literature databases. However, because computerised databases only index a subset of all the available literature, the search should be extended using other resources (including reference checking and consultation of experts, as explained below)
The search to identify primary studies may follow the next basic but labour-intensive steps:
1) A computer-aided search of MEDLINE (PUBMED website
Table 1
Search strategy in PubMed (MEDLINE) for publications about the evaluation of diagnostic accuracy.
(((((((((((("sensitivity and specificity"[All Fields] OR "sensitivity and specificity/standards"[All Fields]) OR "specificity"[All Fields]) OR "screening"[All Fields]) OR "false positive"[All Fields]) OR "false negative"[All Fields]) OR "accuracy"[All Fields]) OR (((("predictive value"[All Fields] OR "predictive value of tests"[All Fields]) OR "predictive value of tests/standards"[All Fields]) OR "predictive values"[All Fields]) OR "predictive values of tests"[All Fields])) OR (("reference value"[All Fields] OR "reference values"[All Fields]) OR"reference values/standards"[All Fields])) OR ((((((((((("roc"[All Fields] OR "roc analyses"[All Fields]) OR "roc analysis"[All Fields]) OR "roc and"[All Fields]) OR "roc area"[All Fields]) OR "roc auc"[All Fields]) OR "roc characteristics"[All Fields]) OR "roc curve"[All Fields]) OR "roc curve method"[All Fields]) OR "roc curves"[All Fields]) OR "roc estimated"[All Fields]) OR "roc evaluation"[All Fields])) OR "likelihood ratio"[All Fields]) AND notpubref [sb]) AND "human"[MeSH Terms])
2) The reference section of primary studies, narrative reviews, and systematic reviews should be reviewed to search for additional primary studies that could have been missed by the electronic search. Identification methods for systematic reviews have also been published
3) Consultation of experts in the disease of interest to identify further published and unpublished primary studies. As diagnostic accuracy studies are often based on routinely collected data, publication bias may be more prevalent in diagnostic than in therapeutic research
The first step in a literature search is the identification of relevant publications. Diagnostic research reports, older publications in particular, are often poorly indexed in the electronic databases. It is often fruitful to conduct pilot searches using the subject-specific strategy. This process is iterated after identifying and incorporating additional keywords and text words used to describe and index the retrieved reports. Studies found only on the reference sections of the retrieved reports but missed by the search strategy should be searched in the database using the articles' title or first author's name. If a study is found in the database, its keywords should be noted and added to the strategy. Citation tracking may provide additional studies. The Science Citation Index could be searched forward in time to identify articles citing relevant publications
• Criteria for inclusion of studies
Reference test
The accuracy of a diagnostic or screening test should be evaluated by comparing its results with a 'gold standard', criterion standard or reference test accepted as the best available by content experts. The reference test may be a single test, a combination of different tests, or the clinical follow-up of patients
Detailed information about the participants in diagnostic research is often lacking. Participants should be defined explicitly in terms of age, gender, complaints, signs and symptoms, and their duration. At least, a definition of participants with and without the disease, as determined by the reference test, should be available. The minimal number of participants needed with and without the disease depends of the type of study, the estimates of diagnostic accuracy, and the precision used to estimate these parameters
Outcome data
Information should be available to allow the construction of the diagnostic 2 by 2 table with its four cells: true positives, false negatives, false positives and true negatives.
If a review is limited to publications in certain languages, it should be reported.
As the patient mix (spectrum of disease severity) is different at different levels of care, a diagnostic review may focus on a specific setting (primary care, etc.) or include all levels. This information may be important for subgroup analyses in case of heterogeneity. If test characteristics have changed over the years as a result of changing methods or technological evolution, one may consider the inclusion of only studies that used the new version of the testing
• Methodological quality
The methodological quality of each selected paper should be assessed independently by at least two reviewers. Chance-adjusted agreement should be reported and disagreements solved by consensus or arbitration. To improve agreement, reviewers should pilot their quality assessment tools in a subset of included studies or studies evaluating a different diagnostic test.
Validity criteria for diagnostic research have been published by the Cochrane Methods Group on Screening and Diagnostic Tests
Table 2
List of validity criteria operationalised for papers reporting on the accuracy of urine dipsticks in the diagnosis of Urinary Tract Infections (UTI) or Bacteriuria
Valid reference standard
(semi-)quantitative (2 points) ot dipslide culture (1 point)
Definition of cut-off point for reference standard
definition of Urinary Tract Infection/Bacteriuria by colony forming units per ml (1 point)
Blind measurement of index test and reference test
in both directions (2 points) or only index or reference test
Avoidance of verification bias
assessment by reference standard independent from index test results (1 point)
Index test interpreted independently of all clinical information
explicitly mentioned in the publication or urine samples from mixed out-patient populations examined in a general laboratory (1 point)
prospective (consecutive series) (1 point) or retrospective collection of data (0 points)
1 Spectrum of disease
in- and/or exclusion criteria mentioned (1 point)
2 Setting
enough information to identify setting (1 point) (community through tertiary care)
3 Previous tests/referral filter
details give about clinical and other diagnostic information as to which the index test is being evaluated (symptomatic or asymptomatic patients (1 point)
4 Duration of illness before diagnosis
duration mentioned (1 point)
5 Co-morbid conditions
details given (type of population) (1 point)
6 Demographic information
age (1 point) and/ or gender (1 point) data provided
7 Execution of index test
information about standard procedure directly or indirectly available, urine collection procedure, first voided urine, distribution of micro-organisms, procedure of contaminated urine samples, time of transportation of urine sample, way of reading index test, persons reading index test (1 point each)
8 Explicitation of cut-off point of index test
trace, 2 or more + (1 point if applicable)
9 Percentage missing
if appropriate: missings mentioned (1 point)
10 Reproducibility of index test
reproducibility studied or reference mentioned (1 point)
It is important to remember that studies may appear to be of poor methodological quality either because they were poorly conducted or poorly reported. Methodological appraisal of the primary studies is frequently hindered by lack of information. In these instances, reviewers may choose to contact the studies' authors or score items as 'don't know or unclear'.
A urine dipstick is usually read before the material is cultured. So, it can be interpreted that the dipstick was read without awareness of the results of the urine culture. However, the culture (reference test) may be interpreted with full awareness of the results of the dipstick. If blinding is not explicitly mentioned, reviewers may choose to score this item as 'don't know' or 'diagnostic test blinded for reference test' (implicitly scoring the reference test as not blinded). Or, the authors may be contacted for clarification.
A survey of the diagnostic literature from 1990 through 1993 in a number of peer-reviewed journals, showed that only a minority of the studies satisfied methodological standards
Ideally, all participants should be submitted to the same reference test. Sometimes different groups of patients are submitted to different reference tests, but details are not given. In this case, it is important to assess if the different reference tests are recognised by experts as being adequate. In some conditions results of the index test may be incorporated into the diagnostic criteria, what may lead to incorporation bias and overestimation of accuracy
• Data extraction
Two reviewers should independently extract the required information from the primary studies. Detailed information has to be extracted about the participants included in the study, time of data collection and the testing procedures. The cut-off point used in dichotomous testing and the reasons and the number of participants excluded because of indeterminate results or unfeasibility is always required.
Detailed information extracted in the case of the dipstick meta-analysis: mean age, male/female ratio, different cut-off points for leukocyte-esterase (trace, 2+, 3+), time needed for transportation, if indeterminate results were excluded, included as negative or repeated.
As the information extracted may be used in subgroup analyses and statistical pooling of the validity, possible sources of heterogeneity should be defined based on a priori existing evidence or hypotheses.
In the dipstick meta-analysis we hypothesised that the following factors may explain heterogeneity if present: procedures of collection of material for the test (method of urine collection, delay between urine collection and culture), who was executing the test and how (manually or automatic), and different brands of commercial products.
Accuracy may be presented in different ways. For the meta-analysis of dichotomous tests (see below) it is necessary to construct the diagnostic 2 × 2 table: absolute numbers in the four cells are needed. Totals of 'diseased' and 'non-diseased' participants are needed to calculate prior probability (pre-test probability), and to reconstruct the 2 × 2 table from sensitivity, specificity, likelihood ratios, predictive values or receiver-operator characteristic (ROC) curves. If possible, the 2 × 2 table should be generated for all relevant subgroups. Further information to extract includes year of publication, language of publication, and country or region of the world where the study was performed.
A standardised data extraction form may be used simultaneously with but separately from the quality assessment form. This approach facilitates data extraction and comparison between reviewers. The form has to be piloted to ensure that all reviewers interpret data in the same way. Like in other steps of the review were judgements are made, disagreements should be recorded and resolved by consensus or arbitration. Lack of details about test results or cut-off points, inconsequential rounding off of percentages, and data errors require common sense and careful data handling when reconstructing 2 × 2 tables. If predictive values are presented with sensitivity and specificity in 'diseased' and 'non-diseased' individuals, the calculation of the four cells from sensitivity and specificity can be confirmed by using the predictive values. Details can be requested from the authors of the studies, but these attempts are often unsuccessful, as the raw data may no longer be available.
In a review on the accuracy of the CAGE questionnaire for the diagnosis of alcohol abuse, sufficient data were made available of 9 only out of 22 studies selected, although the authors of the review tried to contact the original authors by all means
• Data analysis
Whether or not meta-analysis – statistical analysis and calculation of a summary diagnostic accuracy estimate – can be conducted depends on the number and methodological quality of primary studies included and the degree of heterogeneity of their estimates of diagnostic accuracy. Because diagnostic accuracy studies are often heterogeneous and present limited information it is typically difficult to complete a meta-analysis. If heterogeneity is identified, important information is obtained from attempts to explain it. For instance, the effect that each validity criterion has on the estimates of diagnostic accuracy and the influence of
Several meta-analytic methods for diagnostic research have been published in the last decennium
• Describing the results of individual studies
Reporting the main results of all included studies is an essential part of each review. It provides the reader the outcome measures and gives at a first glance insight in their heterogeneity. Each study is presented with some background information (year of publication, geographical region, number of diseased and non-diseased patients, selection of the patients, methodological characteristics) and a summary of the results. In view of the asymmetric nature of most diagnostic tests (some tests are good to exclude a disease, others to confirm), it is important to report pairs of complimentary outcome measures, i.e. at least both sensitivity and specificity, as this is necessary information for readers who would like to reproduce the systematic review. The diagnostic odds ratio (DOR) can be added, but better not alone, as a same odds ratio can relate to different combinations of sensitivity and specificity. The DOR is a measure for the discriminative power of a diagnostic test: the ratio of the odds of a positive test result among diseased to the odds of a positive test result among the non-diseased.
For more details regarding the calculation of the DOR based on the study-specific sensitivity and specificity we refer to Littenberg
• Searching for heterogeneity
When setting inclusion criteria, most reviewers will try to define a more or less homogeneous set of studies. Reality is however, that even then most diagnostic reviews show considerable heterogeneity in the results of included studies. When different studies have largely different results, this may result from either random error or heterogeneity due to differences in clinical or methodological characteristics of studies. A chi-square test or an extension of the Fisher's exact test for small studies
Figure 1
Point estimates (with confidence limits) of respectively sensitivity, specificity, and diagnostic odds ratio of 11 studies on the validity of the test of Lasègue for the diagnosis of disc hernia in low back pain.
Point estimates (with confidence limits) of respectively sensitivity, specificity, and diagnostic odds ratio of 11 studies on the validity of the test of Lasègue for the diagnosis of disc hernia in low back pain. Study 6 is an outlier
• Searching for the presence of an (implicit) cut-off point effect
Estimates of diagnostic accuracy differ if not all studies use the same cut-off point for a positive test result or for the reference standard. The interpretation of test results often depends on human factors (e.g. radiology, pathology, etc) or on the process of testing (e.g. clinical examination). In such cases different studies may use a different implicit cut-off point. Variation in the parameters of accuracy may be partly due to variation in cut-off points. In case of diagnostic tests with a continuous or ordinal outcome the ROC curve presents pairs of sensitivity and specificity for different values of the cut-off point of a test.
One can test for the presence of a cut-off point effect between studies by calculating a Spearman correlation coefficient between sensitivity and specificity of all included studies. If strongly negatively correlated, pairs of parameters represent the same DOR
In a systematic review of the urine dipstick studying the accuracy of nitrites for the diagnosis of urinary tract infections
Table 3
Family Medicine (n = 6)
Outpatients clinics (n = 17)
Hospital (n = 16)
Emergency (n = 4)
Spearman ρ
The Spearman ρ indicates a strong cut-off effect in the family medicine studies and to a lesser degree in the emergency department studies. Despite heterogeneity of sensitivity and specificity, the pairs of sensitivity and specificity in the 6 family practice studies presented a homogeneous DOR.
Moses et al.
4. Dealing with heterogeneity
• Dealing with heterogeneity
In many cases the interpretation of observed heterogeneity is the most fascinating and productive part of a meta-analysis. The inspection of the plot of sensitivity, specificity and DOR with their 95% CI may indicate the presence of outliers. In that case the reason for this situation should carefully be examined.
In the straight-leg-raising test review the plots of sensitivity and specificity showed clear heterogeneity, confirmed by statistical testing. The plot of the DOR revealed one outlier study (figure
In such cases an outlier can be excluded and the analysis continued with the homogeneous group of remaining studies. Deviant results should be explored and explained. The decision to exclude outliers is complex and should be handled in the same way as in other fields of research.
Outliers can also be searched by using a Galbraith plot
Figure 2
Galbraith plot of 11 studies on the validity of the test of Lasègue for the diagnosis of disc hernia in low back pain.
Galbraith plot of 11 studies on the validity of the test of Lasègue for the diagnosis of disc hernia in low back pain. Study 6 is an outlier.
Subgroup analyses defined
In the dipstick review, sensitivity and specificity were weakly associated (ρ = -0.337) and very heterogeneous. Subgroup analysis showed significant differences of the lnDOR between 6 different 'populations of participants'. In three populations (general population, pregnant women and surgery patients) there was a strong negative association between sensitivity and specificity (ρ = -0.539, -0.559, and -1.00 respectively), yielding homogeneous lnDOR in the three subgroups. Different SROC curves for each subgroup could be fitted (see 6.1.2) (Figure
Figure 3
Summary ROC curves of nitrites in urine dipsticks for the diagnosis of bacteriuria and urinary tract infections in various homogeneous subgroups of patient populations.
Summary ROC curves of nitrites in urine dipsticks for the diagnosis of bacteriuria and urinary tract infections in various homogeneous subgroups of patient populations.
If many studies are available, a more complex multivariate model can be built in which a number of study characteristics are entered as possible co-variates. Multivariate models search for the independent effect of study characteristics, adjusted for the influence of other, more powerful ones.
• Deciding on the model to be used for statistical pooling
There are two underlying models that can be used when pooling the results of individual studies.
A more detailed description about these models can be found in Rutter and Gatsonis
Homogeneous studies
If sensitivity and specificity are homogeneous, and if they show no (implicit) cut-off effect (see above), they can be pooled and a fixed effect model can be used. If there is evidence of a cut-off effect, SROC curves can be constructed (see below) or ROC curves can be pooled.
Heterogeneous studies
If heterogeneity is present, the reviewer has the following options:
1. Refrain from pooling and restrict the analysis to a qualitative overview.
2. Sub-group analysis if possible on prior factors and pooling within homogeneous sub-groups.
3. As a last resort, pooling can be performed, using methods that are based on a random effect model.
In view of the low methodological quality of most of the diagnostic studies that have been carried out, there is a tendency to advise using random effect models for the pooling of all diagnostic studies, even if there is no apparent heterogeneity.
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1. Pooling of proportions
1.1. Homogeneous sensitivity and/or specificity
1.2. Cut-off point effect: SROC curve
The SROC curve is presented with sensitivity on the y-axis and 1-specificity on the x-axis (ROC plot). The SROC curve differs from the ROC curve in primary diagnostic research, as each study provides one value of sensitivity and one value of specificity (Figure
2. Pooling of likelihood ratios
Continuous test results can be transformed into likelihood ratios
If primary studies present ordinal test results and they use the same number of categories, ROC curves can be constructed for each study and pooled as below or by using ordinal regression methods
3. Pooling of the ROC curves
Results of diagnostic studies with a dichotomous gold standard outcome, and a test result that is reported on a continuous scale, are generally presented as a ROC curve with or without the related area under the curve (AUC) and its 95% CI. To pool such results, the reviewer has three options: to pool sensitivities and specificities for all relevant cut-off points, to pool the AUCs, or to model and pool the ROC curves themselves.
A. A pooled ROC curve and its confidence interval can be constructed on the basis of the pooled sensitivity / specificity values per cut-off point. To make this possible, sufficient raw data have to be available, which is seldom the case.
B. The AUC, like all one-dimensional measures, provides no information about the asymmetric nature of a diagnostic test. It cannot distinguish between curves with a high sensitivity at moderate values of the specificity and curves with a high specificity at moderate values of the sensitivity.
C. As ROC curves are based on ranking, they are robust with respect to inter-study shifts in the value or the meaning of cut-off points. They also provide information about the asymmetrical nature of the test information. To enable direct pooling of ROC curves, a method has been developed that requires only the published curves and the number of positive and negative participants on the gold standard test as input
For continuous scale tests, weighted linear regression is used to estimate the parameters for each curve, including a bootstrap method to estimate the standard errors. For ordinal tests, maximum likelihood estimation yields the parameters and their standard errors
The resulting estimates are pooled separately, using a random effect model, and the resulting model is back-transformed into a new-pooled curve with its 95% confidence band.
In addition to causing calculation problems in specific situations, pooling published ROC curves also hides the test values from the picture. Although this is not a problem when evaluating a test method, or when comparing different methods, it limits the possible use of the pooled curve for evaluating the diagnostic value of each specific test result. Moreover, a published curve can be a fitted estimate of the real curve based on the initial values, and any bias resulting from this estimation will be included in the pooled estimates.
Data presentation
A DOR is difficult to interpret because it is a combination of sensitivity and specificity
Table 4
Sensitivity (95% CI)
Specificity (95% CI)
Prior probability
Mixed Population
11 (6–21)
0.50 (0.44–0.58)
0.82 (0.71–0.95)
34 (25–47)
0.54 (0.39–0.74)
0.96 (0.93–0.99)
Pooled DOR (and confidence intervals) of different sub-groups can also be presented graphically on a logarithmic scale to end up with symmetric confidence intervals and to reduce the width.
Figure 4
Sub-group analyses of the accuracy of the Lasègue's test for the diagnosis of disc hernia in low back pain.
Sub-group analyses of the accuracy of the Lasègue's test for the diagnosis of disc hernia in low back pain. Odds ratios are pooled per sub-group.
While the methodology to conduct a systematic review and meta-analysis of diagnostic research is developed up to a certain extent, at least for dichotomised tests, the exercise itself remains quite a challenge. Systematic reviews have to meet high methodological standards and the results should always be interpreted with caution. Several complicating issues need careful consideration: 1) it is difficult to discover all published evidence, as diagnostic research is often inadequately indexed in electronic databases; 2) the research methods and characteristics of study population and test procedures are often poorly reported in primary research
While some researchers question the usefulness of pooling the results of poorly designed research or meta-analysis based on limited information
Authors' contributions
WL Devillé, developed the guidelines based on his PhD research 'Evidence in diagnostic research' (2001) and studied the search strategy and both systematic reviews used as case studies.
F Buntinx, developed the guidelines with WLD, studied the pooling of ROC curves and provided illustrative examples based on own research.
LM Bouter, participated in the didactical development of the guidelines, the whole content and the structure of the manuscript.
VM Montori, participated in the didactical development of the guidelines, the whole content and commented on the English phrasing.
HCW de Vet, participated in the didactical development of the guidelines, the statistical part, the whole content and the structure of the manuscript.
DAWM van der Windt, participated in the didactical development of the guidelines, the whole content and commented on the English phrasing.
PD Bezemer, participated in the content of the manuscript and the statistical part.
All authors read and approved the final manuscript
Competing interests
None declared.
This article was first produced as a chapter in the following book:
Knottnerus, J. A. ed., The Evidence Base of Clinical Diagnosis London: BMJ Books 2002, and has been reproduced with permission from BMJ Books.
We like to thank JG Lijmer, MP Zeegers, and RA de Bie for critically reviewing the manuscript.
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I find myself really surprised with the performance of the ASRock X79 Extreme4 and only in the best possible way. Overclocked performance while done slightly differently with a lower BCLK and higher multiplier, we can see that it still helps manage achieve a really strong overclock in the end with that 4.72GHz result we managed to achieve.
At stock we saw under HyperPi and MediaEspresso the X79 Extreme4 fall a little behind the ASUS offering, but the main reason for that is the turbo speed is more forced on the ASUS board where on the ASRock offering we see the MHz just depend on how many cores are being used.
You can see this results in the ASRock offering draw less power and also run cooler and outside of just these two benchmarks, performance is pretty similar between the X79 motherboards. Overclocking, though, means that turbo isn't relevant anymore and we see the X79 Extreme4 perform extremely strong.
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The HBO deal is a big win for Amazon, which is competing with Netflix and Hulu for streaming viewers as more people cut the cord on cable services. Time Warner, which owns HBO, has long seen Netflix as a threat to HBO and has steadfastly refused to license even its old shows to the company for streaming.
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Patrick Gordon
Patrick Leopold Gordon of Auchleuchries (31 March 1635, Auchleuchries, Aberdeenshire, Scotland – 29 November 1699, Moscow, Russia) was a general and rear admiral in Russia, of Scottish origin. He was descended from a family of Aberdeenshire, holders of the small estate of Auchleuchries near Ellon. The family were connected with the noble branch of Haddo. He assumed the name Leopold at the Catholic confirmation shortly before he died.
He was raised and remained a lifelong Catholic, at a time when the Catholic Church was being persecuted in Scotland, which had become Calvinist. After completing his education at the parish schools of Cruden and Ellon, he entered, at age fifteen, the Jesuit college at Braunsberg, East Prussia (then belonging to Poland); however, his character did not tolerate well the strict and sombre way of life at the school, and soon decided to return home. He changed his mind, however, before re-embarking on the journey back to Scotland, and after journeying on foot in several parts of what is today Germany, he ultimately enlisted at Hamburg in the military service of Sweden in 1655.
In the course of the next five years he served alternately for Poland and Sweden and was taken prisoner by both. At the Battle of Chudnov in 1660, Gordon was wounded.[1] Upon hearing of the Stuart restoration, Gordon left Polish service, but found himself unable to obtain military employment in Britain.[1] In 1661, after further experience as a soldier of fortune, he took up service in the Russian army under Tsar Aleksei I, and in 1665 was sent on a special mission to England. After his return he distinguished himself in several wars against the Turk and Tatar ethnic groups in southern Russia. Gordon disliked Russian service, complaining of the corruption and venality of Russian officials, which left Gordon in his own words "almost at wits end with vexation".[2] In recognition of his services he was made major-general in 1678, was appointed to the high command at Kiev in 1679, and in 1683 was made lieutenant-general.
He visited England and Scotland in 1686. In 1687 and 1689 he took part in expeditions against the Tatars in the Crimea, being made full general for his services. On the breaking out of "revolution" in Moscow in 1689, Gordon with the troops under his command virtually decided events in favour of Tsar Peter I,[3] and against the Regent, tsarevna Sophia Alekseyevna. Consequently he was for the remainder of his life in high favour with the Tsar, who confided to him the command of his capital during his absence from Russia. In 1696, Gordon's "moveable rampart" played a key role in helping the Russians take Azov.[3]
One of his greatest achievements was securing permission from the Tsars to establish the first Roman Catholic church and school in Muscovy, of which he remained the main benefactor, and headed the Catholic community in Russia until his death. For his services his second son James, brigadier of the Russian army, was created Count of the Holy Roman Empire in 1701.
The Tsar employed him in organizing his army according to the West European system; and raised him to the rank of full general.
At the end of his life the Tsar, who had visited him frequently during his illness, was with him when he died, and with his own hands closed his eyes.
He was not the only Scottish soldier in the Tsar's service; his compatriots Paul Menzies and Alexander Livingston also found themselves in Russia fleeing religious intolerance or seeking adventure.
General Gordon left behind him a uniquely detailed diary of his life and times, written in English. This is preserved in manuscript in the Russian State Military Archive in Moscow. An incomplete and faulty German translation, edited by Dr Moritz Posselt (Tagebuch des Generals Patrick Gordon) was published, the first volume at Moscow in 1849, the second at St Petersburg in 1851, and the third at St Petersburg in 1853; and Passages from the Diary of General Patrick Gordon of Auchleuchries (1635–1699), was printed, under the editorship of Joseph Robertson, for the Spalding Club, at Aberdeen, Scotland, 1859. A new full scholarly edition of Gordon's Diary in English is being published by the Centre for Irish and Scottish Studies in Aberdeen since 2009.
His daughter (died 1739) was married firstly to a German colonel Strasburgh, and then from 1699 or 1700 to his kinsman in Russian service General Alexander Gordon of Auchintoul, author of "The History of Peter the Great, Emperor of Russia".[4]
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "article name needed". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
- Diary of General Patrick Gordon of Auchleuchries 1635-1699, University of Aberdeen website
- Passages from the diary of General Patrick Gordon of Auchleuchries : A.D. 1635-A.D. 1699; Aberdeen: 1859
- Contacts and Integration: Some Scottish examples, Paul Dukes
- Fedosov, Dmitry "Cock of the East: A Gordon Blade Abroad" pages 1–10 from Russia War, Peace and Diplomacy Essays in Honour of John Erickson edited by Ljubica and Mark Erickson, London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2004 ISBN 0-297-84913-1.
- ^ a b Fedosov, Dmitry "Cock of the East: A Gordon Blade Abroad" pages 1-10 from Russia War, Peace and Diplomacy edited by Ljubica and Mark Erickson, London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2004 page 6.
- ^ Fedosov, Dmitry "Cock of the East: A Gordon Blade Abroad" pages 1-10 from Russia War, Peace and Diplomacy edited by Ljubica and Mark Erickson, London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2004 page 7.
- ^ a b Fedosov, Dmitry "Cock of the East: A Gordon Blade Abroad" pages 1-10 from Russia War, Peace and Diplomacy edited by Ljubica and Mark Erickson, London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2004 page 9.
- ^ (1755) Alexander Gordon: The History of Peter the Great, Emperor of Russia: A short account of the Author's Life, page 10
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