Mass spectrometric (MS) data of human cell secretomes are usually run through the conventional human database for identification. However, the search may result in false identifications due to contamination of the secretome with fetal bovine serum (FBS) proteins. To overcome this challenge, here we provide a composite protein database including human as well as 199 FBS protein sequences for MS ...

This paper introduces a new distinctive class of combinatorial auction protocols called priceoriented, rationing-free (PORF) protocols. The outline of a PORF protocol is as follows: (i) for each bidder, the price of each bundle of goods is determined independently of his/her own declaration (while it can depend on the declarations of other bidders), (ii) we allocate each bidder a bundle that ma...

BACKGROUND Initial serological testing for chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) and hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection is conducted using either rapid diagnostic tests (RDT) or laboratory-based enzyme immunoassays (EIA)s for detection of hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) or antibodies to HCV (anti-HCV), typically on serum or plasma specimens and, for certain RDTs, capillary whole blood. WHO recomme...

UNLABELLED We evaluated the value of PET using 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) and 11C-methionine, individually or in combination, to distinguish malignant from benign tumors and to identify or exclude mediastinal metastases. METHODS Seventeen patients with a tumor in the lung or mediastinum were evaluated with 18F-FDG and 11C-methionine PET. For morphological comparison, we used CT, and all fin...

PURPOSE To retrospectively determine the long-term risk of false-positive mammographic assessments and to evaluate the effect of screening regularity on the risk of false-positive events. MATERIALS AND METHODS Institutional review board approval was obtained, and informed consent was waived. Retrospective analysis was performed for the occurrence of false-positive assessments among 83,511 wom...

The testing of multiple null hypotheses in a single study is a common occurrence in applied research. The problem of Type I error inflation or probability pyramiding in such contexts has been well-known for many years. General procedures for the control of Type I error rates in multiple testing are the Bonferroni procedure and its’ more recent modifications. These procedures partition a desired...

Failure location in transparent optical networks is difficult because of the large number of alarms that a failure can trigger and because of corrupted alarms. One problem that network operators often face is how to set the thresholds in monitoring devices: Setting the thresholds low results in false alarms, whereas setting them high presents the risk of missing a significant degradation in net...

normal 0 false false false en-us x-none ar-sa microsoftinternetexplorer4 backgroun: little research has been carried out on whether the parental stress affects children's oral health in general and dental caries in particular. this study aimed to investigate the association between parental stress and early childhood caries (ecc). methods: a cross-sectional study was designed that included 250 ...