Kiyoshi Kikuchi, Yasushi Ohkusa,Ph.D., Tamie Sugawara, Mika Shigematsu,M.D.,Ph.D.,Kiyosu Taniguchi,M.D.,Ph.D., Nobuhiko Okabe,M.D.,Ph.D. Department of Pediatrics, Shimane Prefectual Central Hospital, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Objective So as to be able to detect nosocomial outbreaks at an early stage, we examine the construction of a syndromic surveillance system for inpatients...

Dr. James E. Doyle is a technical staff member in the Nonproliferation and International Security Division at Los Alamos National Laboratory. His professional focus is on systems analysis, strategic planning, and policy development. Dr. Doyle holds a Ph.D in International Security Studies from the University of Virginia. Previously, Dr. Doyle was a senior policy analyst at Science Applications ...

For any operator on integer-valued functions, we say that #P is closed under in context PF#P if, for every f 2 #P, f] belongs to PF #P. For several operators , it is shown that the closure properties of #P under in the above sense is closely related to the relationships between P #PP1] and higher classes such as PH PP and PP PP .

In recent years, the decay η → 3π has received considerable attention from experimental and theoretical side. It is of particular theoretical interest because it allows for the determination of (mu −md). In addition, for many years now theory has had difficulties to understand the slope of the neutral channel Dalitz plot distribution, which in contrast is very well measured. I discuss here the ...

We consider whether or not protein chains in the HP model have unique or few optimal foldings. We solve the conjecture proposed by Aichholzer et al. that the open chain L2k−1 = (HP )(PH) for k ≥ 3 has exactly two optimal foldings on the square lattice. We show that some closed and open chains have unique optimal foldings on the hexagonal and triangular lattices, respectively.

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Pulp and paper industry is responsible for large discharge of highly polluted effluents, which often be treated by biological treatment process. For biological treatment system, pH is an important environmental factor that can influence the activity of microorganisms. In general, the optimal pH for aerobic processes is around neutral pH (7_7.8) and for the anaerobic process is between 6.8_7.2. ...

Cryogenic transmission electron microscopy (cryo-EM) was used to explore the self-assembly of recombinant murine amelogenin (rM179) in vitro. Our cryo-EM data showed that amelogenin self-assembly is a strongly pH-dependent process. At pH 4.4 the main fraction of the protein exists in a monomeric form, although some peculiar structures consisting of chains of monomers were also observed. At pH 5...

This paper studies a continuous time queueing system with multiple types of customers and a first-come-first-served service discipline. Customers arrive according to a semi-Markov arrival process and the service times of individual types of customers have PH -distributions. A GI /M /1 type Markov process for a generalized age process of batches of customers is constructed. The stationary distri...