virus testing algorithm in resource limiting settings

... party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material If material is not included in the article's ... either alone or in combination [12–14], but, in resource-poor countries rituximab is not a drug of universal access, making splenectomy still widely used in these particular settings The majority ... adverse prognosis, representing another widely used prognostic score in clinical practice [15] In Latin America, particularly in Brazil, there is scarce information regarding SMZL epidemiological

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... divided into N information subcarriers, thus ST is retransmitting the information decoding subcarriers to PR and the remaining subcarrier is used for Energy harvesting at PR The terminal ST is pairing ... the information decoding rate at PR is slightly increasing with increasing the transmission power of ST, in which is maintained a steady throughput hence the transmission is optimized for information ... allocated for information decoding subcarrier initially As more power is transmitted, the rest of higher power is allocated for energy harvesting indicating a decline in the information decoding rate

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... for finding the gcd using euclidean algorithm Extended Euclidean Algorithm If d=gcd(a,b) and a>b, then there exists integers u and v such that d=ua+bv Finding u and v can be done in O(log3 ... all the previous remainders including a and b It is obvious that the euclidean algorithm gives the gcd in a finite number of steps because the remainders are strictly decreasing from one step to ... observation Trang 16Algorithm for binary exponentiation modulo m: In the RSA encryption algorithm, one of the most time consuming step is calculating bn modulo m We now look at an efficient algorithm that

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... illiterates The main implications of these findings are that in order to use Ped-sQL™ in our public health setting, availability of trained interviewers during questionnaire administration needs ... construct and discriminant validity proper-ties in this low-income setting, making this instrument suitable for research use In order to expand the use of the PedsQL™ 4.0 in Argentinean children, ... FuncFunc-tioning (5 items), and 4) School Functioning (5 items), and were developed through focus groups, cognitive interviews, pre-testing, and field testing measurement development proto-cols[5,6] The instrument

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... protein pellet was solubilized into 200– 500 µl of 1% SDS by incubating at 55°C for 10 minutes Any remaining insoluble subcellular particles were removed by centrifugation at 14000 × g for 10 minutes ... with the following temperature profiles: 94°C for 1 min, 55°C for 1 min, and 72°C for 1 min for the outer primer set and 94°C for 1 min, 60°C for 1 min, and 72°C for 1 min for the inner primer ... with an increasing incidence of new infections [1] In the United States, an estimated 1% to 5% of the 2.7 million individuals that are currently chronically infected will die due to the HCV infection

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 08:20

... 1239 nucleotides in length covering 413 amino acids which included 40 amino acids at the N terminal end of NS1 protein, the NS3 region was 866 nucleotides in length covering 288 amino acids, and ... protein, where domain III, the proposed receptor-binding and neutraliz-ing antibody-bindneutraliz-ing sites [13] had highest sequence heterogeneity than Domain I or II The detail analysis in our ... only 131 amino acids [7] The PCR amplification by primer pair p1259A and cdc2503B in this study covered 1239 nucleotides encoding 413 amino acids, including portion of domain I and II, 3 hinge regions,

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... housekeeping genes in a limited set of EBV-harboring BL cell lines Results Selecting housekeeping genes to normalize EBV gene transcription in BL cell lines The first step in quantifying gene ... Quantitative profiling of housekeeping and Epstein-Barr virus gene transcription in Burkitt lymphoma cell lines using an oligonucleotide microarray Address: 1 Division of Infectious Diseases ... resulting in the assembly of new EBV particles and their release upon cell lysis [6,7] This observation ignited great interest in a possible new therapeutic strategy against EBV-harboring tumors: inducing

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 01:20

... and are included in the group G At this point, the initiator peer p0 checks for the number of peers in the group G If more number of peers are needed to be included in the group G, the initiator ... we discuss trustworthiness-base broadcast (TBB) algorithm 2 Trustworthiness of Peers In P2P systems, each peer has to obtain information of other peers and propagate the information to other ... trustworthy peers In this paper, we consider how to improve the trustworthiness of a group by includ-ing trustworthy peers in the group If the group we call a decision makinclud-ing committee can

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 06:20

... taken to be the infimum of the lengths of all rectifiable paths joining them In this case, d is said to be a length metric otherwise known as an inner metric or intrinsic metric In case no rectifiable ... with {u in }, {c in } ⊂ 0, ∞ such that∞ n1 u in < ∞ and∞ n1 c in < ∞ for all i ∈ I Suppose that F is closed Starting from arbitrary x0 ∈ C, define the sequence {x n } by the algorithm ... with {u in }, {c in } ⊂ 0, ∞ such that∞ n1 u in < ∞ and∞ n1 c in < ∞ for all i ∈ I Suppose that F is closed Starting from arbitaray x0∈ C, define the sequence {x n } by the algorithm1.6,

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 07:20

... “Keypoint Energy Map” for localizing keypoints from decimated DTCWT coefficients, and the keypoint scale parameter is determined by the gradient minima of the keypoint energy map in its vicinity ... recall as functions of the half window size for calculating the invariant moments in feature description 4.4 Finding Correspondence between Feature Points When comparing the similarity between two ... takes Bytes in storage (The number in the parentheses in columns 4, 5, and indicates the “rank” of the detector/descriptor combination in terms of the corresponding performance metric in that column

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 08:20

... percentage time savings t for ME calculation, according to t =  1 − 1 r  wherer are the data points in Table3 The percentage time savings obtained are displayed in Table4 From Table4, we find that SUMH ... D6 contain 4×8 SADs, D7 contain 8×8 SADs, D8 contain 8×16 SADs, D9 contain 16×8 SADs, D10 contain 8×4 SADs, and finally, D11 contains the 16×16 SAD These SADs are compared appropriately in the ... definition for some high motion sequences such as “Stefan,” these algorithms can drop into a local minimum in the early stages of the search process [4] In order to have more robust fast algorithms,

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... SINR b for the bth frequency subband. The SINR margin value for each subband is cal- culated as SINR margin,b = SINR b − SINR threshold . (14) We pick a subband b with the largest SINR margin ... systems. These algorithms are de- scribed in an increasing order of complexity as Random-Fit, First-Fit, and Best-Fit. To facilitate the algorithm description, the following def- initions and variables ... Best-Fit algorithm, the scheduler will test whether the packet can be added into the subbands. Then, the packets in this subband are converted into class C q since more stringent BER require- ment in

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 19:20

... are separated into training and test sets with 50 examples for the training set and the remaining for the test set; (2) a feature-selection method is applied on the training set to find a feature ... relative to F In practice, F is unknown and a classifierψ nis built, via a classification rule from a training sampleS ncontainingn examples drawn from F The training sample is set of n independent ... training and testing The second issue is whether the feature set for the classifier is known ahead of time or it has to be chosen by a feature-selection algorithm Since we are interested in high

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... conditioners, and so forth, are becoming increasingly popular in vehicles In-telligent hands-free interfaces, including human-computer interaction (HCI) interfaces [1 3] with speech recognition, ... talking in a noisy vehicular environment can be expressed as a linear combination of the speech sig-nal and the environmental noises Therefore, in this stage, the system combines the online recorded ... construct the training signals, X1(ω), , X M(ω), where M denotes the number of micro-phones The training signal is transmitted to the location model training procedure described inSection 3to

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... aureus infections includes toxic shock syndrome [6], food poisoning, meningitis [6,7] as well as dermatological dis-orders ranging from minor infections and eczema to blis-ters and scalded skin syndrome ... [24] Methicillin-resistant strains of staphylococci were identi-fied immediately upon the introduction of methicillin into clinical practice Methicillin-resistant S aureus (MRSA) was initially identified ... aim of deter-mining epidemiology of clinical and carrier staphylococci and molecular studies of their acquisition and dissemina-tion of resistance in a hospital setting in northern India Materials

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 19:20

... analysis, in particular to the source of infor-mation pertaining to computerized clinical records (Oficina Médica Informatizada de Atención Primaria Windows version, STACKS, Barcelona, Spain), data ... to training on the instruments of self-perceived health which had to be adminis-tered (see 'Patient-reported outcome instruments used in the study') Selection of individuals was made using probability ... chest pain Fur-thermore, there should be pain to touch in at least 11 out of the following 18 symmetric points: occipital, low cervical, tra-pezium, supraspinal, second intercostal space in the

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 14:20

... hr in RPMI-1640 media (ATCC, Manassas, VA) containing 10% fetal bovine serum (Hyclone, Logan, UT), 1% penicillin/streptomycin/ glutamine (Invitrogen, Gaithersburg, MD), 10 U/ml inter-leukin 2 ... pre-incubated the amifostine with alkaline phosphatase (Sigma-Aldrich Inc.), at 1 U per 100 μl of media containing 50 μM amifostine, to generate WR1065 In experiments designed to examine virus repli-cation ... did not saturate virus inhibition, allowing for further inhibition when WR1065 was added (see Table 3, right column) Due in part to interindividual differences in growth, HIV-1 infection capacity,

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 05:21

... for this kind of guideline-based decision support systems is still lacking This conclusion implies a considerable risk towards inappropriate investments in ineffective implementation interventions ... directly supporting evi-dence-based clinical decision making in which point-of-care advice is provided based on one or more CPGs The basic requirement to include an intervention in the sys-tematic ... 27 Studies included in analysis Trang 5As a result of the cluster design of most trials, the risk ofintervention contamination could be minimised in all of included studies Although minimal, completely

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... Bates M, Quinn TC: Response to antiretroviral therapy in HIV-infected patients attending a public, urban clinic in Kampala, Uganda Clin Infect Dis 2006, 42:252-59 Kitahata MM, Reed SD, Dillingham ... Monitoring of human immunodeficiency virus infection in resource- constrained countries Clin Infect Dis 2003, 37:S25-S35 Fiscus SA, Cheng B, Crowe SM, Demeter L, Jennings C, Miller V, Respess R, Stevens ... adolescents in resource- limited settings: towards universal access – Recommendations for a public health approach [http://www.who.int/hiv/pub/guidelines/adult/en/ index.html] (2006 revision) The Infectious...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 08:20

... following statements: In my opinion, the following are (at present) the main actors in priority setting in health In my opinion, the following should, ideally, be the main actors in priority setting ... priority setting which are not presented in this paper [35] However we maintain that the findings, provide an initial step to the understanding some of the values held by people from a low-income context, ... solidarity, seem to be as relevant in resource- poor settings as they are in resource- rich settings [19,22,33] On the other hand, these results may be explained by lack of respondents' familiarity...

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