UNLABELLED The power of interpretation in the analysis of cranial computed tomography (CCT) among neurosurgeons and radiologists has rarely been studied. This study aimed to assess the rate of agreement in the interpretation of CCTs between neurosurgeons and a radiologist in an emergency department. METHOD 227 CCT were independently analyzed by two neurosurgeons (NS1 and NS2) and a radiologis...

iSCSI is becoming an important protocol to enable remote storage access through the ubiquitous TCP/IP network. Due to the significant shift in its transport mechanism, iSCSI-based storage system may possess different performance characteristics from the traditional storage system. Simulation offers a flexible way to study the iSCSI-based storage system. In this paper, we present a simulation wo...

The JFH1 strain of hepatitis C virus (HCV) is unique among HCV isolates, in that the wild-type virus can traverse the entire replication cycle in cultured cells. However, without adaptive mutations, only low levels of infectious virus are produced. In the present study, the effects of five mutations that were selected during serial passage in Huh-7.5 cells were studied. Recombinant genomes cont...

A reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR), based on the gene encoding the NS2 protein of African horsesickness virus (AHSV), was developed for rapid serogroup-specific detection of AHSV. The specificity of RT-PCR products was confirmed by Southern blot hybridization using a radioactively labelled cDNA probe specific for the NS2 gene. This RT-PCR could discriminate between all k...

OBJECTIVE To study the effects of hepatitis C virus gene nonstructural protein 2 on the expressions of Bcl-2 and Bax in liver hepatocellular cells. METHOD The study was conducted at the Department of Infectious Diseases, the First Affiliated Hospital of Medical School, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China, from March 2012 to April 2013. Negative controls pEGFP-C3-NS2, pEGFP-C3-C and pEGFP-...

In recent times the cost of mobile communication has dropped significantly leading to a dramatic increase in mobile phone usage. The widespread usage has led mobiles to emerge as a strong alternative for other applications one of which is tracking. This has enabled law-enforcing agencies to detect overspeeding vehicles and organizations to keep track its employees. The 3 major ways of tracking ...