In order to establish the most sensitive and specific method in the detection of Rickettsia tsutsugamushi in Leptotrombidium deliense , mice and patients, a comparative study on DNA extraction, PCR, hybridization and PCR-hybridization was conducted. The results showed that the sensitivity of PCR-hybridization was 10 times higher than that of PCR and 1000 times higher than that of hybridization....

Objective To determine if a simple stimulation method increases the rate of infant voiding for clean catch urine within five minutes.Design Randomised controlled trial.Setting Emergency department of a tertiary paediatric hospital, Australia.Participants 354 infants (aged 1-12 months) requiring urine sample collection as determined by the treating clinician. 10 infants were subsequently exclude...

Software engineering methodologies rely on various and complex graphical representations and are more useful when associated to CASE (Computer Aided Software Engineering) tools designed to take care of constraints that have to be respected. Now, CASE tools gave way to CASE environments (a set of tools that have a strong coherence in their us). This concept provides enhanced solutions for softwa...

The InfiniBand technology (IB) development community, e.g. Mellanox, Voltaire, Topspin, InfiniCon, etc. are deploying their next generation NICs and switches [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]. The NICs are based on the PCI Express bus and the switches employ a 24 port switch chip developed by Mellanox. This new switch chip has led to the development of high port count (e.g. 144 and 288 ports) standalone switches...

The journal issue has a unique new feature for reaching to the journal’s website without typing a single lett er. Each arti cle on its fi rst page has a “Quick Response Code”. Using any mobile or other hand-held device with camera and GPRS/other internet source, one can reach to the full text of that parti cular arti cle on the journal’s website. Start a QR-code reading soft ware (see list of f...

Solving major, persistent public health problems requires new policies and more aggressive, sweeping interventions that affect large populations. We need well-conceived health policies and effective interventions for environmental change, but are we likely to get them? To find out, the Directors of Health Promotion and Education and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention initiated ...

Recent in situ three-dimensional structural studies have provided a new model for the 30 nm chromatin fiber. In addition, research during the past year has revealed some of the molecular complexity of non-histone chromosomal proteins. Still to come is the unification of molecular insights with chromosomal architecture.

This document specifies an optional Quick-Start mechanism for transport protocols, in cooperation with routers, to determine an allowed sending rate at the start and at times in the middle of a data transfer (e.g., after an idle period). While Quick-Start is Floyd/Allman/Jain/Sarolahti [Page 1] INTERNET-DRAFT Expires: January 2007 July 2006 designed to be used by a range of transport protocols,...

Arc-consistency plays such a key role in constraint programming for solving real life problems that it is almost the only algorithm used for reducing domains. There are a few specific problems for which a stronger form of propagation, often called shaving, is more efficient. Nevertheless, in many cases, shaving at each node of the search tree is not worth doing: arc-consistency filtering is muc...