I n this issue of the BJO (p 261), Siddiqui et al review the compliance of researchers with quality standards for evaluations of diagnostic test performance (DTP). ‘‘Standards’’ were originally set by the McMaster evidence based medicine (EBM) group 2 and they have continued to evolve over recent years. Unfortunately, the standards appear to have had little impact since reviews of recent evalua...

We recently introduced a new ow control scheme, called send-time control, which is based on a deterministic model of virtual circuits in a computer network. In this scheme, the time at which a packet is sent by a source is computed from estimates of round-trip time, traac in the network and bottleneck service time. In this paper, we describe a new transport protocol, called DTP, which uses send...

Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have achieved high accuracy in image classification tasks, however, most existing models are trained on high-quality images that not subject to degradation. In practice, often affected by various types of degradation which can significantly impact the performance CNNs. this work, we investigate influence three typical CNNs and propose a Degradation Type...

Peripheral displays may require higher attention allocation compared to centered displays. This study investigated how cognitive load with peripheral dual-tasking affected gait variability in healthy young adults dual-tasking. Eleven (23.8±1.25 years) participated the experiment. Participants performed three trials of different tests while walking on treadmill. The tasks were randomly assigned ...

Historically, diphtheria was a major cause of morbidity and mortality in the prevaccine era. However, in recent times there has been a resurgence of diphtheria, especially in the newly independent states of the former USSR. Diphtheritic polyneuropathy can be a serious complication in patients who have a severe infection. In patients with pertussis, seizures and encephalopathy can occur as a com...

To decrease the influence of postural sway during spinal measurements, an instrumented fixation posture (called G) was proposed and tested in comparison with the free standing posture (A) using the DTP-3 system in a group of 70 healthy volunteers. The measurement was performed 5 times on each subject and each position was tested by a newly developed device for non-invasive spinal measurements c...

the integration of two distinct lines of AI research: (1) decision-theoretic planning (DTP) and (2) multiagent systems. Both areas (especially the second) are attracting considerable interest, but work in multiagent systems often assumes either classical planning models or prespecified economic valuations on the part of the agents in question. By integrating models of DTP in multiagent systems ...

The Disjunctive Temporal Problem (DTP) involves the satisfaction of a set of constraints represented by disjunctive formulas of the form x1 − y1 ≤ r1 ∨ x2 − y2 ≤ r2 ∨ . . . ∨ xk − yk ≤ rk. DTP is a general temporal reasoning problem which includes the well-known Temporal Constraint Satisfaction Problem (TCSP) introduced by Dechter, Meiri and Pearl. This paper describes a basic constraint satisf...

A GroEL-like protein from Bordetella pertussis was purified. This protein was found to have the tetradecameric subunit structure typical of the GroEL family of proteins and to contain epitopes similar to those of other members of this family, including a human GroEL-like protein. Active immunization of neonatal mice with the B. pertussis GroEL-like protein provided little protection against an ...