The sera of school children with Schistosoma haematobium infection were tested for the presence of cold-insoluble immune complexes "the cryoglobulins". Two different methods were used: the standard macro-technique and the micro-adaptation technique. On using the standard macro-technique, 40 (32.8%) out of 122 schistosomiasis patients and 6 (7.5%) out of 80 control children were positive for cry...

This paper studies the nature and the importance of the link between macro and micro levels of innovation management in the knowledge society of Denmark, Sweden, USA, India, Russia, and Moldova, suggesting that countries with different levels of knowledge society development have different link types between the macro and micro levels of innovation management. In particular, findings show that ...

One of the main issues with Mobile Internet Protocol (MIP) is slow handovers. Mobility protocols are classified as micro or macro depending on the domain of the network. When macro mobility protocols are used in managing localized mobility requirements, they result in slow handovers and delays that result in loss of packets and make these protocols unsuitable for time sensitive applications. Mi...

We survey the field of micro-macro numerical techniques for predicting complex flows of viscoelastic fluids. The micro-macro approach couples the mesoscopic scale of kinetic theory to the macroscopic scale of continuum mechanics. A numerical solution is sought to the coupled non-linear problem involving the conservation laws and a microstructural model of kinetic theory. Although micro-macro te...

In this paper the notion of emergence in complex social systems is rediscussed as a necessary instrument for a theory of the macro-micro link. Referring to Schelling’s model of segregation, emergent effects are defined as effects generated by (inter)acting micro-social entities, and implemented upon, but not incorporated into, their rules. In the successive section, the way back from macro to m...

This second part of a two-part article establishes a model of the mediating factors that influence student information behavior concerning the electronic or digital information sources used to support learning. This part discusses the findings of the JISC User Behavior Monitoring and Evaluation Framework (1999-2004) and development of a model that includes both the individual (micro) and organi...

Metals content affects not only for nutritional value of plants, but also their resistance to stress. So it was revealed that cationic composition changes hydration cytoplasm. Hydration cytoplasm positively correlated with alkali metals, a representative which is potassium, and negatively amount alkaline earth metals (calcium, magnesium). Variability rice collection samples in terms sodium, cal...

We present a seamless multiscale model and an efficient coupling scheme for the study of complex fluids. The multiscale model consists of macroscale conservation laws for mass and momentum, molecular dynamics on fiber bundles, as well as the Irving-Kirkwood formula which links the macroscale stress tensor with the microscopic variables. The macroscale and microscale models are solved with a mac...

Classification of fiber tracts is an important problem in brain tractography.We propose a supervised algorithm which learns features for anatomically meaningful fiber clusters, from labeled DTI white matter data. The classification is performed at two levels: a) Grey vs White matter (macro level) and b) White matter clusters (micro level). Our approach focuses on high curvature points in the fi...