Objective: To determine the prevalence and risk factors for hepatitis B virus (HBV) infections among individuals attending an STD clinic in a low endemic region. Study design: A total of 1228 women and 1648 men attending the STD clinic at the University Hospital Rotterdam, Netherlands, were examined for HBV infection by determination of hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) and antibodies to hepa...

We have been proposing a Spoken Term Detection (STD) method for Out-Of-Vocabulary (OOV) query terms using various subword units, such as monophone, triphone, demiphone, one third phone, and Sub-phonetic segment (SPS) models. In the proposed method, subword-based ASR is performed for all spoken documents and subword recognition results are generated using subword acoustic models and subword lang...

NC Med J September/October 2006, Volume 67, Number 5 ffective diagnosis and treatment of infected persons is a critical component of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) prevention and control. STD diagnostic methods that are sensitive, rapid and inexpensive are ideal for testing of individuals presenting with genitourinary symptoms and screening of asymptomatic individuals in high risk populat...

"Smart-pooling," in which test reagents are multiplexed in a highly redundant manner, is a promising strategy for achieving high efficiency, sensitivity, and specificity in systems-level projects. However, previous applications relied on low redundancy designs that do not leverage the full potential of smart-pooling, and more powerful theoretical constructions, such as the Shifted Transversal D...

OBJECTIVE The prevalence of hepatitis B and hepatitis C in a sexually transmitted disease (STD) clinic population was studied, along with the prevalence of various STD agents, in an attempt to identify possible STD markers for the hepatitis C virus and help delineate the role of hepatitis C as an STD. The hepatitis C antibody rates found in the STD clinic were also compared with those found amo...

BACKGROUND We conducted a case-control analysis to determine the contribution made to mortality by intermittent ST depression (STD) among patients enrolled in the already completed Beta Blocker Heart Attack Trial. METHODS AND RESULTS STD was determined by computer analysis of 24-hour ECG tapes as a change in ST level by +/- 0.1 mV or more from the median value of ST of all normally conducted ...

OBJECTIVES Determine the real-world difference between 2 groups of patients with severe aortic stenosis and similar baseline comorbidities: surgical turn down (STD) patients, who were managed medically prior to the availability of transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) following formal surgical outpatient assessment, and patients managed with a TAVI implant. DESIGN Retrospective cohor...

Adaptive Modulation and Coding (AMC) is combined with Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) multiplexing to improve the throughput performance of AMC. In addition, Selection Transmit Diversity (STD) is considered in MIMO multiplexing to achieve higher diversity gain. AMC-STD-MIMO multiplexing system is proposed. STD in our simulation selects 2 transmission antennas from 4 antennas and AMC-MIMO ...

Objectives: Few studies have evaluated the relation between male and female sexual behaviour and STD among married African women. The objectives of this study were to identify male and female sexual behaviour associated with female STD, and to explore whether incorporating male and female sexual behaviour and male symptoms can improve algorithms for STD management in married African women. Meth...

AIMS To evaluate the prognostic impact of ST depression resolution among patients with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) undergoing primary PCI in the Assessment of Pexelizumab in Acute Myocardial Infarction (APEX-AMI) trial. METHODS AND RESULTS In this study, 4729 of 5745 patients had analysable ECGs demonstrating concomitant ST-segment depression. Resolution of summation op...