In our jurisdiction, the Aptima Combo 2 assay (Gen-Probe, Inc.) is used to detect Neisseria gonorrhoeae from specimens collected at clinics for sexually transmitted infections (STI) and from select community patients. In addition, swabs are also collected for N. gonorrhoeae culture, susceptibility testing, and sequence typing (ST). Since only a small proportion of samples from provincial cases ...

the trend of sustainable use of available water resources encourages textile finishing enterprisesto implement efficient wastewater treatment technologies that enable water recycling, and not just it’sdischarging into the local wastewater treatment plants (wwtp). this paper presents the results obtainedfrom the h2o2/uv treatment of wastewater from slovene textile finishing company. laboratory s...

This study describes the spontaneous sign language of six deaf children (6 to 16 years old) of hearing parents, who were exposed to Signed English when after the age of six they first attended a school for the deaf. Samples of their language taken at three times over a 15-month period were searched for processes and structures representative or not representative of Signed English. The nature o...

To assess the incidence of aflatoxins contamination in different commodities, a representative countrywide study was conducted. One hundred composed samples of cereals, grains, spices, condiments and refined and raw sugars were analysed for aflatoxin B1, B2, G1 and G2. The moisture contents of all the food samples were also invariably determined. Only 6% of the samples namely maize and red chil...

The proposed ExoMars mission, due to launch in 2018, aims to look for evidence of extant and extinct life in martian rocks and regolith. Previous attempts to detect organic molecules of biological or abiotic origin on Mars have been unsuccessful, which may be attributable to destruction of these molecules by perchlorate salts during pyrolysis sample extraction techniques. Organic molecules can ...

In this paper, we study the use of unlabeled samples in reducing the problem of small training sample size that can severely affect the recognition rate of classifiers when the dimensionality of the multispectral data is high. We show that by using additional unlabeled samples that are available at no extra cost, the performance may be improved, and therefore the Hughes phenomenon can be mitiga...

When is it safe to use synthetic data in supervised classification? Trainable classifier technologies require large representative training sets consisting of samples labeled with their true class. Acquiring such training sets is difficult and costly. One way to alleviate this problem is to enlarge training sets by generating artificial, synthetic samples. Of course this immediately raises many...