Introduction of Hib vaccine is known to positively impact on reduction of both morbidity and mortality in children less than 5 years of age. Incorporation of this vaccine into a National EPI, however, does come at a significant cost, which is especially important in non-GAVI funded countries. Compounded reduction in response in certain patient populations and possible indication of booster dose...

We introduce the Multiagent Disjunctive Temporal Problem (MaDTP), a new distributed formulation of the widely-adopted Disjunctive Temporal Problem (DTP) representation. An agent that generates a summary of all viable schedules, rather than a single schedule, can be more useful in dynamic environments. We show how a (Ma)DTP with the properties of minimality and decomposability provides a particu...

BACKGROUND We have demonstrated recently that the tumor-to-blood standard uptake ratio (SUR) is superior to tumor standardized uptake value (SUV) as a surrogate of the metabolic uptake rate K m of fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG), overcoming several of the known shortcomings of the SUV approach: excellent linear correlation of SUR and K m from Patlak analysis was found using dynamic imaging of liver me...

We propose a new service-oriented Grid Transaction Processing architecture called GridTP based on the OGSA platform and the X/Open DTP model. GridTP services provide a consistent and effective way of making existing, autonomously managed databases available within Grid environments. In the Data Virtualization Services layer, Grid applications, via the WSDL-style TX portType, delineate global tr...

OBJECTIVES This study tested the hypothesis that immunization is related to the prevalence of atopic disease in childhood. METHODS We used data from the International Study of Asthma and Allergies in Childhood to perform an ecologic analysis of national and local immunization rates for tuberculosis, diphtheria and tetanus toxoids and pertussis (DTP), and measles and prevalence of atopic disea...

We present a method for finding optimal partial solutions to overconstrained instances of the Disjunctive Temporal Problems (DTP). The solutions are optimal in that they satisfy a maximal number of constraints. While partial constraint satisfaction (PCS) has been commonly applied to finite-domain CSPs, its application in this setting is of particular interest, as temporal problems are tradition...

The Friedel-Crafts acylation of furan to produce 2-acyl by using acetic anhydride is industrially important but it uses highly polluting liquid acids as catalysts. In this study, supported modified heteropoly were used heterogeneous catalysts in a solventless green process. Metal exchanged dodecatungstophosphoric acid (DTP) was loaded on three different supports, and its effect evaluated. 20% w...

Extreme weather events often cause the input of fresh plant tissues into soils in forests. However, interspecific patterns tree tissue-leached dissolved organic matter (DOM) characteristics are poorly understood. In this study, we collected leaves and twigs two broadleaf trees (Liquidambar formosana Schima superba) coniferous (Pinus massoniana Pinus elliottii) subtropical plantations China, mea...

the ph dependence study reveals that the cys 206 sulphydryl group of bovine carbonicanhydrase in the native form is not exposed. during the reaction of 2,2'-dithiobispyridine (2-dtp) with the enzyme, there was no absorbance change recorded. in the presence ofsurfactants, the ph dependence profiles of the apparent second order rate constants, kapp, forthe reaction of 2-dtp with bovine carbonic a...