Rapid influenza diagnostic tests (RIDTs) are commonly used by clinicians to guide patient management. Data on sensitivities among hospitalized patients are limited. Here, we evaluated the clinical and virologic factors affecting the sensitivities of 2 commercially available RIDTs (BinaxNOW Influenza A&B and QuickVue Influenza A+B) on nasopharyngeal aspirate (NPA) specimens collected from elderl...

We present a framework for modeling asset and portfolio dynamics, incorporating this information into optimization. define drivers dynamics their optimal selection. For framework, we introduce the Commonality Principle, providing solution selection of as common drivers. Portfolio constituent are modeled by Partial Differential Equations, solutions approximated with neural networks. Sensitivitie...

Spectral sensitivities of cells in principal eyes of the jumping spider Phidippus reqius were measured using techniques of intracellular recording. Three types of cells were found. UV cells had peak sensitivities at 370 nm and were over 4 log units less sensitive at wavelengths longer than 460 nm. Green-sensitive cells had spectral sensitivities which were well fit by nomogram curves peaking at...

This paper proposes a new methodology for computing boundary sensitivities in level set topology optimization using the discrete adjoint method. The equations are constructed discretized governing field equations. objective function is differentiated with respect to point movement For this purpose, we present novel approach where perturb implicitly by locally modifying around given point. These...

BACKGROUND Physicians have long reported that patients with chronic pain show higher tendencies for alcohol use disorder (AUD), and AUD patients appear to have higher pain sensitivities. The goal of this study was to test 2 hypotheses: (i) binge alcohol consumption increases inflammatory pain and mechanical and cold sensitivities; and (ii) tigecycline is an effective treatment for alcohol-media...

We show an alternative way of represent­ ing a Bayesian belief network by sensitivities and probability distributions. This represen­ tation is equivalent to the traditional rep­ resentation by conditional probabilities, but makes dependencies between nodes apparent and intuitively easy to understand. We also propose a QR matrix representation for the sensitivities and/ or conditional probabili...

This paper presents the realization of narrow high-order band-pass (BP) active resistance-capacitance (RC) filters. It was shown that such filters have large sensitivities to component tolerances, and if they were built using structures with multiple feedbacks, theirs sensitivities are substantially decreased. Furthermore, it was demonstrated that sensitivities of inner 2-order blocks (“biquads...

Studies in several mammalian species have demonstrated that auditory cortical neurons respond strongly to single frequency-modulated (FM) sweeps, and that most responses are selective for sweep direction and/or rate. In the present study, we used extracellular recordings to examine how neurons in the auditory cortices of anesthetized rats respond to continuous, periodic trains of FM sweeps (des...

The spectral sensitivities of the short (S-), middle (M-) and long (L-) wave-sensitive cones have been measured in normal trichromats and in dichromats and monochromats of known genotype. For the S-cone sensitivities, three blue-cone monochromats and five normals were used; for the M-cone sensitivities, nine protanopes (three with a single L1M2 gene, three with a single L2M3 gene, one with both...

In this paper, we obtain complete characterization for nested canalyzing functions (NCFs) by obtaining its unique algebraic normal form (polynomial form). We introduce a new concept, LAYER NUMBER for NCF. Based on this, we obtain explicit formulas for the the following important parameters: 1) Number of all the nested canalyzing functions, 2) Number of all the NCFs with given LAYER NUMBER, 3) H...