Background Food allergy to egg is commonly diagnosed in childhood with good prognosis. Egg white is considered as the main culprit with major 4 identified allergens (Gal d 1 to Gal d 4). Egg yolk (with two identified allergens Gal d 5 and Gal d 6 in the livetin fraction) retained less attention and its clinical involvement remains unclear. This study revisits sensitization to both egg fractions...

In order to manage site precast concrete construction which has been increasing, an integrated construction management system employing a unique 3-D modelling method and analogue process input method was developed. At the planning stage, the system supports interactive planning between member configuration and installation planning by a visual method and with an accurate quantity. At the proces...

The increasing number of participants in modern mobile radio networks, especially with the prospect of the new CDMA systems, necessitates a more and more detailed and efficient radio network planning. The basis of network planning is always the prediction of the quality of transmission between the transmitter and the participant. In order to find the optimal location of the transmitters in a to...

YAOZONG GAO: ACCURATE SEGMENTATION OF CT PELVIC ORGANS VIA INCREMENTAL CASCADE LEARNING AND REGRESSION-BASED DEFORMABLE MODELS. (Under the direction of Dinggang Shen.) Accurate segmentation of male pelvic organs from computed tomography (CT) images is important in image guided radiotherapy (IGRT) of prostate cancer. The efficacy of radiation treatment highly depends on the segmentation accuracy...

We investigate the locomotion of a surface-walking/climbing robot, the Planar Walker, based on a novel planar eight-bar closed-loop mechanism. The robot can produce inchworm-like movements in two orthogonal directions and can rotate about itself. The locomotion mechanism to achieve such motions comprises four two-way linear cylinders forming a deformable quadrilateral and four two-way gripper m...

Sarday, O cber 7, 2017 the expander. Radiation oncologists and medical physicists will need to consider what effect the gas filled chamber and metal components within the expander have on their treatment planning and dosimetry. Breast air expanders require a wedged pair planning technique however, Saline expanders can be planned with a IMRT hybrid technique. It is critical to understand the con...

The paper proposes an enhanced representation of the pedestrian network that provides benefits for pedestrian route planning over a network representation that is used by a majority of existing route planning services. The pedestrian network is represented in the proposed methodology by pavements and crossings between them. Route planning is based on the travel time derived from distance and av...

This study reports on an experiment in which a group of 14 American learners of Spanish as a foreign language performed two monologic production tasks with and without time for planning. Several hypotheses were tested concerning language complexity, grammatical accuracy, lexical complexity, and degree of fluency. As predicted, it was found that learners produced more complex, but not more accur...

This paper invents symbolic pattern databases (SPDB) to combine two influencing aspects for recent progress in domain-independent action planning, namely heuristic search and model checking. SPDBs are off-line computed dictionaries, generated in symbolic backward traversals of automatically inferred planning space abstractions. The entries of SPDBs serve as heuristic estimates to accelerate exp...