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  1. Mar 2019
  2. Jan 2018
    1. f available, recommend adjusting for ICU location in the multivariable analyses. It is a likely confounder. Choiceof sedative is often provider or ICU specific, and outcomes are different based on ICU.

      增加不同的ICU作为混杂因素,修改起来有困难,暂不予修改

    2. lease clarify if you consider the RAS a function of the drug or of the definedtarget by the clinician

      这个问题两个审稿人都提出来了,我建议改成达到target的机率

    3. please clarify which gender was independent risk factor for in­hospital death. Pleasestate the OR and 95%CI and p value. Please state if this effect was similar in all three groups. Please clarify thevalue of including these data in your stud

      可修改

    4. please state the numerical value for each of the secondary outcomes in each of thegroups, and state the p value

      同上

    5. lease state the mortality rates for dex and propofol and p value

      用comparing语气,可修改

    6. please add the words 'for propofol' at the end of the sentence

      可修改

    7. In the Methods section, P5L50­53, please clarify if the SAPS II was present in the MIMIC­III database or wascalculated by the authors based on MIMIC­III data

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    8. In the Introduction section, P4L45, please correct the typo 'effort' into 'effect(s)'.

      可修改

    9. Please report p values as < 0.001 when 10e­16, etc

      修改p值

    10. Please state the city/state/country from which Beth Israel Deaconness Medical Center is located. What ICUswere included within this database (ie: surgical, medical, burn

      加入医学中心的国家,城市

    11. Please give the time frame of the records pulled from the database in the abstrac

      在摘要中加入数据库时间

    12. n the discussion, it appears that the argument for the decreased mortality in the dexmedetomidine group isrelated to lack of oversedation, sleep quality, and sleep patterns There was a lack of RASS scores or supportingevidence for this in this manuscript, which needs to be identified as a limitation. Further, additional reasons couldbe identified including avoidance of deep sedation episodes and decreased rates of delirium.11. Delirium is associated with increased length of stay and mechanical ventilation. It may have been whydexmedetomidine was administered. This needs to added to your discussion on page 11. Also that delirium wasnot adjusted for in the analyses needs to be mentioned as a limitatio

      这两段审稿人给了limitation的简易,可以加进去

    13. It was found that midazolam was used in more patients with high SAPS II scores (Quarters 3 and 4). HigherSAPS II scores were independently associated with increased mortality in your study. It is unclear if this wasadjusted for to identify midazolam as an independent risk within these groups. Therefore, the sentence stating "wesuggest avoiding midazolam infusion in cases that SAPS II is more than 47" may not be supported

      审稿人认为在SAPSII分数高的两组内应该再做一个多因素分析,证明咪达唑仑是这些病人预后不良的危险因素

    14. A flow chart is needed in a supplement to demonstrate how arrived at 3,983 patients from the 40,000 beganwith

      增加一个筛选的流程图

    15. Under outcomes analysis you write, "for analysis of above outcomes, the data without dead patients wereutilized" (page 6, lines 32­34) and "death records were excluded in order to avoid bias caused by early death"(page 10, lines 56/57). This is misleading. Please instead state that the analyses examining duration wereperformed only in survivors (N=?) to discharge (if this is indeed a correct statement). Furthermore, anystatements throughout the manuscript about it being associated with increased length of stay needs to be qualifiedby adding "in survivors." A better method overall, however, would be to analyze ICU free days, hospital free days,and mechanical ventilation free days between sedative groups which would allow use of the entire cohort andaccount for bias due to death.

      这条建议很中肯,可以修改

    16. nclear which analyses were used for the outcomes reported in the abstract (univariate, multivariate,propensity matching

      摘要中没有说清出分析方法

    17. Not sure of the benefit of analyzing RASS scores between propofol and midazolam since these are typicallytitrated to a RASS target by a nursing staff, causing dose adjustments as opposed to the choice of drug changingthe RASS. Further, they both work through GABA and can achieve the same range of sedation. This is not arandomized controlled trial with set RASS targets. Would recommend removing this topic from the manuscript

      审稿人认为不应该放RASS的结果,没有什么意义,都是按照不同的剂量能达到不同的深度,建议将这部分去掉

    18. Please clarify further how groups were designated and identified in the database. It is rare for a patient to onlyget dexmedetomidine, for instance, without having exposure to other sedatives. If a patient received only onesedative for 48 hours and then only another sedative for an additional 48 hours, would this patient be excluded?The identification of groups has to be crystal clear because it is central to your hypothesis testing and theunderstanding of your manuscript.

      没有说清楚分组设计的方法(如何做到只使用一种镇静药的)?

      其实我们是回顾性的研究,少数病人只用了dex,这个说法也是符合我们数据库的特点的

    19. 摘要中没有说清楚方法

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  3. Oct 2017
    1. both cor.geneModuleMembership > 0.8 and cor.geneTraitSignificance > 0.2) (

      What is the cor.geneModuleMembership and cor.geneTraitSignificance? Are they some variables in your statistic software? Please transform them to some concepts easy to be understand by readers.

    2. Figure 10

      The authors don't do the immunohistochemistry, but how they have the photos in in Figure 10? If the photos are from some databases or websites, make sure you have the copyright.

    3. And 10 real hub genes (CCNA2, CCNB1, CENPF, DLGAP5, KIF14, KIF23, NEK2, RACGAP1, TPX2 andUBE2C) among 36 common network genes were highlighted with p value significant less than 0.05(Figure6-9). Theremaining 26 genes wereshown in FigureS1-4.

      The survival analysis of GSE62452 dose not make sense. Because the authors select these genes by relating to their clinical data. Those hub genes performing well in TCGA is the most valuable results in this study. But why not give the results of the other validation dataset GSE62165? Doesn't it have clinical data? Or do the authors have negative results? That is important.

    4. dataset GSE62452 and TCGA data. The genes with pvalue significantly less than 0.05 were identified as real hub genes.

      The hub genes with a p-value <0.05 in GSE62452 and TCGA data refer to real hub genes. I see that they have total 10 real hub genes out of 36 common hub genes. That means more than one half of genes do not really exist in all three datasets. How do the authors think that their results were validated?

    5. Afterwards, the ME in the yellowmodule showed a higher correlation with disease progression than other modules (Figure4C). Based on the two methods

      what dose the disease progression mean? In figure 4, the yellow module relating to Grade has the highest significance. But what is the detail of Grade? In addition, what is the Stage, Survival month, Survival status? In the method part, the authors should give explanations.

    6. Figure2

      labels of Figure 2 lack. You should tell readers what the color represent. Do the white cells refer to non-tumor samples? If so, the clustering didn't classify the samples effectively. And the legend of Figure 2 is not enough.

    7. When AUC value was greater than 0.5, the hub gene was considered capable of distinguishingrecurrent and non-recurrent PDAC with excellent specificity and sensitivity

      You said AUC > 0.5 was considered capable to identify recurrent and non-recurrent PDAC with EXCELLENT SP and SE. As I know, a random relationship of AUC for ROC is near to 0.5. What is your basis to say that?

    8. GSE62165 performed on Affymetrix Human Gene 1.0 ST Array (Affymetrix, Santa Clara, CA, USA) consisting of 118 PDAC samples and 13 control samples was used as a validation set to perform gene set enrichment analysis (GSEA) in order to identify potential function of PDAC.

      Why to use a validation to perform GSEA?

    9. GSE62452

      The series of Gene Array you used to analysis are uploaded by other researchers. Thus there studies should be quoted in your article. The citations can be find in the GEO profile page of each series. Please quote them.

    10. In our study, the different expression genes in dataset GSE62452 was used to constructed a co-expression network by WGCNA. Significant gene module was identified to explore key genes and pathways associated with the process of PDAC. And then we useddataset GSE62165 and TCGA database to validate our results. According to survival and regression analysis, we identified the real hub genes related to PDAC. Since the recurrence rate of PDAC was unusually high, we performed the ROC curve and AUC to distinguishing recurrent and non-recurrent PDAC[14]. And finally functional enrichment analysis was performed to explore potential mechanisms for PDAC.

      This paragraph is just repeating the contents of abstract. I suggest to delete it. An introduction is talking about how you focused on your idea and what your aim is. A summary of what you have done is not suitable here.

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  4. Sep 2017
    1. PostgreSQL連接Python

      python连接postgresql,非常简单,基本跟mylsql一样,通过cursor来执行

    1. js实现网页多少秒后自动跳转到指定网址 setTimeout(function(){ location.href="你的网址路径"; },5000); 5000即5秒

      延时跳转

    1. robust gene

      What does the robust gene set mean? I mean you use different method and get different gene list with different FCs. Which result is the robust gene set? Are they those what you built Network with? If so, what is the meaning of building different gene sets with different FCs or methods? Why not select the final FC or method directly? Can you explain those above?

    2. This indicated an interesting result that variabilityin methodology of DEG extraction methodsmay have an effect on number of DEGs identified at greater FC cutoff values.

      This sentence is not the conclusion of your article. That's really a simple theory. A greater FC of course have less number of DEGs.

    3. his is accomplished with the help of genes like UBC which act as a connectionbetween these significant gene sets, at protein-interaction level.

      why don't analysis KEGG and GO with DEGs instead of hub protein, which is the common way as I know?

    4. topological analysis of the PPI networkswas performed to identify hub genes with high degree and betweenness centrality (BC) which serve as two fundamental parameters in the network theory [33][34]. Degree, the most basic characteristic of a node in a network measures the number of adjacent links, i.e. the number of interactions that connect one protein to its neighbors. BC measures the fraction of the number of shortest paths that pass through each node, which measures how often nodes occur on the shortest paths between other nodes.

      The explanation of parameters of PPI should be in method part.

    5. P1served as a superset of all the genes in intersection results

      The number of genes in P1?

    6. Moreover, at FC=2, no genes were found in the intersection results, but RNA-seq analysis revealed a set of 89 genes (R2)

      Why you choose R2 for further exploration? Can you explain in detail?

    7. This method wasapplied to all individual raw microarray datasets to minimize the inconsistency due to normalization. Reasons behind choosing this method fornormalization include good differential change detection, stable variance on log scale and less number of false positives. This was projected in a comparison between different normalization methods, where it was shown that RMA outperformed in terms of specificity and sensitivity when dealing with fold change criteria in the detection of differential expression [19]. The box plots of the RMA normalized intensity were plotted toconfirm that measurements of data become approximately aligned towards a central mean, and thus become comparabl

      It is better to position these to discuss part

    8. Many statistical methods are available for DEG identification, but using a single method was not adequate due to the inconsistency of the results of DEG lists, when different methods were applied to microarray data. This was explained by [20]where they point the issue of result inconsistency in context to high level microarray analysis methods. Authors suggested to use a set of few methods and acknowledge DEGs as only those genes which fall within an intersection of sets of DEGs obtained by different methods. Based on the overall method scoring presented in their paper, they recommend at least Limma, Significance Analysis of Microarrays (SAM), and T-test (TT). Based upon these results, we used three different methods for DEG extraction from microarray data, Limma [21], SAM [22]and Fold Change Rank Ordering Statistic (FCROS) [23].Out of all methods available for DEG extraction, Limmaremains to be highly recommended and quite excellent with its power emphasized in [24]. Authors clearly advocate the application of Limma, in a comparison between eight such methods, Welch’s t-test, ANOVA, Wilcoxon’s test, SAM, RVM, Limma, VarMixt and SMVaris [25]. Instead ofsimple t-statistics, it provides the results for moderated t-statistics, moderated F-statistic, and B-statistic (which shows log-odds of differential expression) by applying Empirical Bayes method and shrinking the standard errors towards a common value. Hence, it has the capability to provide a stable and reproducible result even with a small number of arrays. Moreover, it can be conveniently applied on data from both, microarray and RNA-seq platforms

      Why do you explain the reason you use your method in the method part? You just need to describe what methods you use. Those are not necessary because readers can learn about it in the references you quote. However, if the explanations are so important, put them in the discussion part is a good choice.

    9. Fold change was the parameter which was calculated by all these methods. However, measurement scales required some transformation which is explained in Table 3.

      This sentence and Table 3 should be put in method part. The result part displays only what you found but not what parameter you use.

    10. six microarray data sets and one RNA-seq data

      This paragraph sounds like the content of methods part. And the content in your Materials and Methods part had some repeat explanations. Please delete either of them or merge them.

    11. Reference

      do not treat reference as a dependent column. You can quote them after the series number.

    12. It has

      Here should be a new paragraph

    13. Manuscript Draft

      This study explored microarray and RNA-seq of multi-cancer samples. A set of genes were found to have something with cancer developing and their relationship were drawn with network software.

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