[1] The Burton et al. equation and the Ring Current Atmosphere Interaction Model (RAM) code give about equally good fits to Dst profiles of strong magnetic storms, yet they are driven by different functions of the interplanetary electric field, one rising linearly and the other eventually saturating. We show that by reformulating the Burton et al. equation such that a quadratic form of the driv...

The collagen gel droplet-embedded culture drug sensitivity test (CD-DST) is one of the best chemosensitivity tests owing to its high success rate. However, CD-DST is often a culture method, and contamination is a serious problem, especially in the case of colorectal cancer, which is contaminated by enteric bacteria. It has been reported that the success rate of CD-DST is 64.0% in the case of co...

PURPOSE An in vitro-chemosensitivity test using the collagen gel droplet embedded culture drug test (CD-DST), established by Kobayashi et al. (Jpn J Cancer Res 2001; 92: 203-10), has been widely used on various tumors. This study retrospectively evaluated its possibility of clinical application to patients with malignant pleural mesothelioma (MPM). PATIENTS AND METHODS CD-DST using 26 fresh s...

Four rapid tests for the serologic diagnosis of leptospirosis were evaluated, and the performance of each was compared with that of the current standard, the microscopic agglutination test (MAT). The four rapid tests were a microplate immunoglobulin M (IgM)-enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA), an indirect hemagglutination assay (IHA), an IgM dipstick assay (LDS), and an IgM dot-ELISA dips...

Disturbances of the circadian timing system following daylight saving time (DST) may influence the symptoms of Parkinson's disease (PD). To address this question, we compared the severity of motor fluctuations and non-motor symptoms both before and after the time change. Total daily "off-time" based on diaries, excessive daytime sleepiness (Epworth Sleepiness Scale), depressive symptoms (Beck D...

We consider the gap between user demands for seamless handling of complex interactions, and recent advances in dialog state tracking technologies. We propose a new statistical approach, Task Lineage-based Dialog State Tracking (TL-DST), aimed at seamlessly orchestrating multiple tasks with complex goals across multiple domains in continuous interaction. TL-DST consists of three components: (1) ...

Many scientists and philosophers of science are troubled by the relative isolation of developmental from evolutionary biology. Reconciling the science of development with the science of heredity preoccupied a minority of biologists for much of the twentieth century, but these efforts were not corporately successful. Mainly in the past fifteen years, however, these previously dispersed integrati...

This paper proposes a two-dimensional (2-D) VLSI architecture using a uni ed systolic array for fast computation of the discrete cosine transform/discrete sine transform/discrete Hartley transform (DCT/DST/DHT). The N -point discrete transform is decomposed into evenand oddnumbered frequency samples and they are computed independently at the same time. The proposed uni ed systolic array archite...

The low-dose dexamethasone suppression test (DST) is one of the commonly used initial tests for endogenous Cushing's syndrome (CS). However, there are two loading dose regimens (0.5-mg and 1-mg), which may cause some confusion in daily practice in Japan; furthermore, there are no reports regarding whether 0.5-mg DST is a better loading dose for detecting adrenal subclinical CS (SCS) based on th...

We attempted to prospectively select individualized chemotherapy for 165 non-small cell lung cancer patients based on in vitro analysis of neuroendocrine (NE) markers and drug sensitivity testing (DST) using fresh tumor. The chemotherapy used for small cell lung cancer (SCLC) was selected when NE marker expression determined by L-dopa decarboxylase assay was documented. Selection of chemotherap...