A repeated observation is that test probes rapidly saturate the search space within software: i.e. many probes of software yield only slightly more information than a few probes. HT0 is a software test engine that assumes rapid saturation. Instead of exploring all probes, randomly different probes are explored one at a time. Probe exploration halts when randomly generated probe J yields little ...

In a recent experiment for determining the mechanical response of brain in vim. a probe, inserted through scalp, skull and dura, is placed in contact with and normal to the brain. given a prescribed motion, and the time variation of corresponding force is measured. In the corresponding continuum mechanical model, brain is idealized as a linear isotropic viscoelastic solid constrained by a rigid...

BACKGROUND Real-time assays for Yellow fever virus (YFV) would help to improve acute diagnostics in outbreak investigations. OBJECTIVES To develop a real-time assay for YFV able to detect African and South American strains. STUDY DESIGN Three short probe (14-18 nt) formats were compared and a plasmid-transcribed RNA standard was used to test the performance of the assays. Additionally the n...

The diagnostic utility of static immittance (SI) with respect to distinguishing healthy from otosclerotic ears was investigated at different probe-tone frequencies in 68 healthy ears and 36 ears with surgically confirmed otosclerosis. Because one effect of otosclerosis is to shift the resonant frequency of the middle ear to higher values as a result of increased stiffness of the middle ear syst...

In this article we consider testing for differentially expressed genes in GeneChip studies by modeling and analyzing the quantiles of gene expression through probe level measurements. By developing a robust rank score test for linear quantile models with a random effect, we propose a reliable test for detecting differences in certain quantiles of the intensity distributions. By using a genomewi...