A prospective, multicenter trial was designed to compare the performance characteristics of the cobas® 4800 (Roche Diagnostics, Indianapolis, IN, USA) and m2000 real-time™ (Abbott Molecular Inc., Des Plaines, IL, USA) assays for detection of Chlamydia trachomatis (CT) and Neisseria gonorrhoeae (NG) in rectal and self-collected vaginal swabs. Rectal (n = 234) or self-collected vaginal swabs (n =...

Storaging or transmission of speech signals at very low bit rate is a hot area in the field of speech processing. We used stochastic inter-frame interpolators and vector quantization (VQ) as a new method for developing a high quality 1200 BPS speech vocoder. The objective and subjecgtive test results show that performance of the new vocoder is compairable with 4800 BPS standard vocoders (as CELP).

1 Written collectively as “Golden Oldie XXX; each author is signed under his segment. 2 Copernicus Astronomical Center, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland; e-mail: [email protected] 3 Eduard-Steinle-Straβe 19, 70 619 Stuttgart, Germany. 4 29 Washington Square West, New York, NY 10011, USA; e-mail: [email protected] 5 Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Mail Stop 169-327, 4800 Oak Grove Drive, Pa...

Evaluation of the Cobas 4800 test demonstrated that Cobas had a low rate of cross-reactivity with low-risk human papillomavirus (lrHPV), a 3.74% disconcordance rate between prealiquots and postaliquots, and failure rates of 4.57% and 1.16%, respectively, after vortexing and swirling. This study demonstrated that the Cobas test has good sensitivity, accuracy, and reproducibility for detecting 14...

Weak-positive Neisseria gonorrhoeae nucleic acid amplification test results are difficult to interpret. We show that the frequency of unconfirmed N. gonorrhoeae results from the cobas 4800 test rises exponentially after 38.0 cycles, where the likelihood of an unconfirmed result exceeds 29%. Supplementary testing of such samples should be avoided; instead, treatment should be based on clinical p...

1 , Y. Maruyama 1 , E. Alerstam 1 , C. Cochrane 1 , G.R.Rossman 2 , S. Shkolyar 3 , J. Farmer 3 , 1 Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, 4800 Oak Grove Dr., Pasadena, CA 91109, [email protected], 2 California Institute of Technology, Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, Pasadena, California 91125, [email protected]. 3 School of Earth and Space...

David Alonso, Thibaut Louis, Philip Bull, Pedro G. Ferreira University of Oxford, Denys Wilkinson Building, Keble Road, Oxford, OX1 3RH, UK UPMC Univ Paris 06, UMR7095, Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris, F-75014, Paris, France California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, 4800 Oak Grove Drive, Pasadena, California, USA...

School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287-4501, USA Department of Biology, The Citadel, Charleston, SC 29409, USA School of Biological Sciences, University of Canterbury, Private Bag 4800, Christchurch, New Zealand Centre d’Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, 1919 Route de Mende, Montpellier, France *Address correspondence ...