An astonishing one-third of the world’s population is infected with the bacterium that causes tuberculosis (TB), Mycobacterium tuberculosis. In most people it remains inactive or latent but in about 10% of people an active case of TB disease will develop within their lifetime. Simple antibiotics can prevent and treat most of these cases, yet 8-10 million people develop an active TB infection an...

The Test-Duo framework is proposed for automating the task of generating functional test cases for execution on an automatic testing platform. With Test-Duo, the tester focuses on the tasks of refining and annotating use cases and preparing test data sets with tool support, leaving the tasks of generating the actual test cases and marshaling their execution to Test-Duo. The generated test cases...

the concepts of free modules, projective modules, injective modules and the likeform an important area in module theory. the notion of free fuzzy modules was introducedby muganda as an extension of free modules in the fuzzy context. zahedi and ameriintroduced the concept of projective and injective l-modules. in this paper we give analternate definition for projective l-modules. we prove that e...

Let U be either the universal enveloping algebra of a complex semisimple Lie algebra g or its Drinfel’d-Jimbo quantisation over the field C(z) of rational functions in the indeterminate z. We define the notion of “strongly multiplicity free” (smf) for a finite dimensional U-module V , and prove that for such modules the endomorphism algebras EndU (V ⊗r) are “generic” in the sense that they are ...

The adsorption of diclofenac (DCF), one of the widely used non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, onto the surface of goethite was investigated with batch experiments. The adsorption at different pH values (5.3, 7.4, and 10.0) were well fitted with the pseudo-second-order model. The results showed that the adsorption of DCF onto goethite was strongly depended on solution pH. The amount of adsor...

STATEMENT OF PROBLEM Contemporary pressable and computer-aided design/manufacturing (CAD/CAM) ceramics exhibit good mechanical and esthetic properties. Their wear resistance compared with human enamel and traditional gold based alloys needs to be better investigated. PURPOSE The purpose of this in vitro study was to compare the 2-body wear resistance of human enamel, gold alloy, and 5 differe...

We compared the Mycoplasma Duo kit (Sanofi Diagnostics Pasteur) with PCR for detection of Ureaplasma spp. in endotracheal aspirates from 60 premature neonates. The overall agreement between the two tests was 96%. The Mycoplasma Duo assay is a useful alternative to culture and PCR for detection of neonatal Ureaplasma infection.

Early diagnosis is important for clinical management of dengue disease. While classic laboratory tests are often tedious and time consuming, point of care devices offer a rapid, cost-effective and user-friendly alternative provided their accuracy is acceptable. This study evaluated the sensitivity, specificity and efficiency of SD BIOLINE Dengue Duo® rapid NS1, IgM and IgG test kit for diagnosi...