The Health Protection Agency (HPA) (currently Public Health England) implemented the Health Protection Event-Based Surveillance (EBS) to provide additional national epidemic intelligence for the 2012 London Olympic and Paralympic Games (the Games). We describe EBS and evaluate the system attributes. EBS aimed at identifying, assessing and reporting to the HPA Olympic Coordination Centre (OCC) p...

In the recent times many accessible congestion control procedures have no capability to differentiate involving two major problems like packet loss by link crash and packet loss by congestion due to buffer overflow. Consequently these resolutions effect in form of wastage of possessions because they target only on the packet drop by link crash that has the unnecessary importance. Consumption of...

In this paper, we introduce an novel emotional agent system in 3D virtual world based on OCC (Ortony, Clore and Collins) theory, FCM (Fuzzy Cognitive Map) and GoalNet. The agent system is designed based on Goal Net model. Emotional modeling and decision making are based on OCC and FCM inference. Emotions modeled by the OCC model are incorporated into FCM inference. It has been shown emotion has...

OBJECTIVES To investigate whether nigrostriatal dopaminergic hypofunction is related to the extrapyramidal symptoms in patients with juvenile neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis (JNCL). METHODS Nine patients with JNCL and seven healthy controls were studied using [18F]fluorodopa PET. RESULTS In the patients with JNCL [18F]fluorodopa uptake (K[i][occ]) in the putamen was 60% of the control mean a...

Theories of organizational culture and climate (OCC) applied to child welfare systems hypothesize that strategic dimensions of organizational culture influence organizational climate and that OCC explains system variance in youth outcomes. This study provides the first structural test of the direct and indirect effects of culture and climate on youth outcomes in a national sample of child welfa...

Petri Place/Transition (PT) nets are one of the most widely used models of concurrency. However, they still lack, in our view, a satisfactory semantics: on the one hand the \token game" is too intensional, even in its more abstract interpretations in term of nonsequential processes and monoidal categories; on the other hand, Winskel's basic unfolding construction, which provides a coreeection b...

This study investigated the participation of MAPK in the resumption of meiosis [germinal vesicle breakdown (GVB)] in oocytes and cumulus expansion using oocyte-cumulus cell complexes (OCC) from Mos-null mice (Mos(tm1Ev)/Mos(tm1Ev), hereafter Mos(-/-)). MAPK activity was not detected in Mos(-/-) oocytes whether they matured in vivo or in vitro, with or without gonadotropin stimulation. Therefore...

It has been previously demonstrated that Gi/o proteins are involved in ischemic preconditioning (IPC) in rabbits and dogs; however, there has been controversy as to the role of Gi/o proteins in IPC in in vivo rat infarct models. Therefore, the role of G proteins in the cardioprotective effect of IPC in a rat infarct model was reevaluated. Cardioprotection as indicated by infarct size (IS) as a ...