OBJECTIVES The primary objective was to calculate the rate of return to sport (RTS) following anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstruction in elite athletes. Secondary objectives were to estimate the time taken to RTS, calculate rates of ACL graft rupture, evaluate postsurgical athletic performance and identify determinants of RTS. DESIGN Pooled RTS and graft rupture rates were calculated ...

BACKGROUND RTS,S/AS01(E) is the lead candidate malaria vaccine and confers pre-erythrocytic immunity. Vaccination may therefore impact acquired immunity to blood-stage malaria parasites after natural infection. METHODS We measured, by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay, antibodies to 4 Plasmodium falciparum merozoite antigens (AMA-1, MSP-1(42), EBA-175, and MSP-3) and by growth inhibitory acti...

The purpose of this work is that of presenting a version of the Reactive Tabu Search method (RTS) that is suitable for constrained problems, and that of testing RTS on a series of constrained and unconstrained Combinatorial Optimization tasks. The benchmark suite consists of many instances of the N-K model and of the Multiknapsack problem with various sizes and diiculties, deened with portable ...

The recently discovered rTS gene is convergent with and overlaps the thymidylate synthase gene in the antisense orientation. K562 B1A and KB 1BT are two methotrexate-resistant cell lines that have amplified genes for dihydrofolate reductase. K562 B1A cells have increased levels of rTS mRNA and protein compared with their parental K562 cells, whereas KB 1BT cells show unaltered rTS expression co...

Real-time Strategy (RTS) games are complex domains which are a significant challenge to both human and artificial intelligence (AI). For that reason, and although many AI approaches have been proposed for the RTS game AI problem, the AI of all commercial RTS games is scripted and offers a very static behavior subject to exploits. In this paper, we will focus on a case-based reasoning (CBR) appr...

Real-time systems (RTS) have strict timing constraints and limited resources. The satisfaction of RTS timing constraints is required for their correction. In order to reduce the cost due to late discovery of design flaws and/or violations of timing constraints of RTS as well as to speed up their development to cope with time-to-market requirements, it is important to validate, at early stages o...

The broadcast nature of wireless networks is the source of both their utility and much of their complexity. To turn what would otherwise be unwanted interference into an advantage, this paper examines an entirely backwardscompatible extension to the 802.11 link-layer protocol for making use of overheard packets, called RTS-id. RTS-id operates by augmenting the standard 802.11 RTS/CTS process wi...

the calculation of rts amounts to measuring a relationship between inputs and outputs in a production structure. there are many methods to measure rts in the primal space or the dual space. one of the main approaches is using the multiplier on the convexity constraint. but returns to scale measurements in dea models are affected by the presence of regulatory constraints. these additional constr...

PURPOSE Although there are over 40,000 licensed radiological technologists (RTs) in Korea, job competency standards have yet to be defined. This study aims to clarify the job competency of Korean RTs. METHODS A task force team of 11 professional RTs were recruited in order to analyze the job competency of domestic and international RTs. A draft for the job competency of Korean RTs was prepare...

OBJECTIVE To assess reliability and validity of the objectively-structured clinical examination (OSCE) applied in postgraduate certification processes by the Mexican Board of Rheumatology. METHOD Thirty-two (2013) and 38 (2014) Rheumatology trainees (RTs) underwent an OSCE consisting of 12 and 15 stations respectively, scored according to a validated check-list, as well as 300-multiple-choice...