In order to improve the bearing capacity of soft ground for the purpose of getting trafficability of construction vehicles, the reinforcement of geosynthetics for sand-mat layers on soft ground has often been used. As the strength of the geosynthetics increases, and the sand-mat system becomes stronger, the bearing capacity of sand-mat systems will be increased. The depths of geosynthetics, rei...

BACKGROUND Existing self-report measures of mobility ignore important contextual features of movement and require respondents to make complex judgments about specific tasks. Thus, we describe the development and validation of a short form (sf) video-animated tool for assessing mobility, the Mobility Assessment Tool-MAT-sf. METHODS This study involves cross-sectional and longitudinal analyses ...

A variety of data structures such as inverted file, multi-lists, quad tree, k-d tree. range tree. polygon tree, quintary tree. multidimensional tries, segment tree. doubly chained tree. the grid file. d-fold tree, super B-tree, Multiple .4ttribute Tree (MAT). etc. have been studied for multidimensional searching and related problems. Physical data base organization, which is an important applic...

We recently reported that maternal antibiotic treatment (MAT) of mice in the last days of pregnancy and during lactation dramatically alters the density and composition of the gastrointestinal microbiota of their infants. MAT infants also exhibited enhanced susceptibility to a systemic viral infection and altered adaptive immune cell activation phenotype and function. CD8+ effector T cells from...

BACKGROUND Toxoplasma gondii can infect all warm-blooded animals. Modified agglutination test (MAT) and ELISA are widely used for the detection of T. gondii antibodies. However, there is little information on their acceptability for detecting antibodies in companion animals. METHODS This study compared ELISA and MAT for their ability to detect T. gondii infection in naturally infected dogs an...

We develop an O(n2) time serial algorithm to obtain the medial axis transform (MAT) of an n×n image. An O(logn) PRAM and an O(log2n) hypercube parallel algorithm for the MAT are also developed. Both of these use O(n2) processors. Two problems associated with the MAT are also studied. These are the area and perimeter reporting problem. We develop an O(logn) time hypercube algorithm for both of t...

We read the article by Dutta et al on “Leptospirosis An Overview” with interest.1 The problem in utilizing microscopic agglutination test (MAT) has been highlighted and we shall discuss briefly the current status of MAT. MAT is considered the gold standard test for diagnosis of leptospirosis. It has unsurpassed specificity, but its sensitivity is low compared to ELISA/SAT (Slide agglutination t...

Sera from (259) sheep and (88) goats from Erbil city were examined for antibodies to Toxoplasma gondii by using latex, MAT, and ELISA. By using latex test, 75 (25.4%) sheep and 25 (28.4%) goats were seropositive. By testing the latex seropositive sheep serum by both MAT and ELISA the distribution of both positive and negative results were as such respectively: 63 (84%), 12 (16%), 11 (14.7%), 64...

Abstract The invasive annual grass downy brome ( Bromus tectorum L.) is a critical threat to the semiarid shrublands that characterize western North America. More abundant fine fuel after invasion typically increases fire frequency in plant communities adapted relatively infrequent burning, reducing likelihood of native persistence. Currently, imazapic most often used manage B. , but reinvasion...

Multidimensional adaptive testing (MAT) is a highly efficient method for the simultaneous measurement of several latent traits. Currently, no psychometrically sound approach is available for the use of MAT in testlet-based tests. Testlets are sets of items sharing a common stimulus such as a graph or a text. They are frequently used in large operational testing programs like TOEFL, PISA, PIRLS,...