DEC (diethylcarbamazine)-medicated salt, at a concentration of 0.1 to 0.2 mg per 100 mg, was given to the entire population of Karaikal (119 978) in South India for a 4-year period from 1982. The per capita consumption of DEC in medicated salt was 13.3 grams for the entire period. The prevalence of microfilaraemia declined significantly from 4.5% in 1982 to 0.14% in 1985 and 0.4% in 1993. Vecto...

The effect of ivermectin or diethylcarbamazine (DEC) on Wuchereria bancrofti molting from the third to the fourth larval stage (L3 to L4) was evaluated in vitro. L3 larvae were harvested from laboratory-reared Aedes togoi 2 wk after feeding upon a microfilaremic human volunteer. The larvae were kept in an artificial medium (Franke's NI medium) with 10% human serum under an atmosphere of 5% CO2 ...

We present the discrete exterior calculus (DEC) to solve discrete partial differential equations on discrete objects such as cell complexes. To cope with advection-dominated problems, we introduce a novel stabilization technique to the DEC. To this end, we use the fact that the DEC coincides in special situations with known discretization schemes such as finite volumes or finite differences. Th...

1 Abstract The cornerstone software component of high-end production systems is a database management system. Digital has successfully ported the DEC Rdb for OpenVMS relational database management system and the DEC DBMS for OpenVMS network database management system to the Alpha AXP platform. Rdb and DBMS were perhaps the most complex layered products to be ported. The tight coupling of these ...

is a collection of routines to draw surfaces, contours and so on. In this work we are presenting a version, that functions over work stations with the operative system UNIX, that count with the graphic ambiance X-WINDOW with the tools XLIB and OSF/MOTIF. This implant was realized for the work stations DEC 5000-200, DEC IPX, and DEC ALFA of the CINVESTAV (Center of Investigation and Adva...

DEC in general has the power to bringout the filarial worms into the peripheral blood when administered. The provocative effect was observed in 86.8% of the mf positive cases. Optimum provocative effect was noticed in the age group above 12 years and there was no influence on sex. The maximum effect of provocation was seen at 60 min after the administration 2 mg/kg body weight DEC. The mf rate ...

BACKGROUND Two major distinct subsets of dendritic cells (DCs) are arranged to regulate immune responses: DEC-205+ DCs drive Th1 polarization and 33D1+ DCs establish Th2 dominancy. Th1 polarization can be achieved either by depletion of 33D1+ DCs with a 33D1-specific monoclonal antibody (mAb) or by activation of DEC-205+ DCs via intraperitoneal injection of α-galactosylceramide (α-GalCer). We s...

INTRODUCTION Among the bacterial causes, diarrheagenic Escherichia coli (DEC) is the most important etiologic agent of childhood diarrhoea and represents a major public health problem in developing countries. New evidence suggests that major differences in virulence among groups of DEC pathotypes may be related to the presence of specific pathogenicity islands (PAIs). METHODOLOGY Multiplex an...

We demonstrate how virtually all common cardinal invariants associated to a von Neumann algebra M can be computed from the decomposability number, dec(M), and the minimal cardinality of a generating set, gen(M). Applications include the equivalence of the well-known generator problem, “Is every separably-acting von Neumann algebra singly-generated?”, with the formally stronger questions, “Is ev...