School-located vaccination (SLV) has a long history in the United States and has successfully contributed to lower morbidity and mortality due to vaccine-preventable diseases.1 Historically, SLV efforts, which tended to be single-vaccine programs intended to provide catch-up immunization to a defined school-age cohort or were implemented in response to an outbreak, were unfunded, funded by loca...

The Shortest Lattice Vector (SLV) problem is in general hard to solve, except for special cases (such as root lattices and lattices for which an obtuse superbase is known). In this paper, we present a new class of SLV problems that can be solved efficiently. Specifically, if for an n-dimensional lattice, a Gram matrix is known that can be written as the difference of a diagonal matrix and a pos...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the impact of graft size on recipients in living donor liver transplantation (LDLT) to establish a clinical guideline for the minimum requirement. SUMMARY BACKGROUND DATA Although the minimum graft size required for LDLT has been reported to be 30% to 40% of graft volume (GV)/standard liver volume (SLV), the safety limit of the graft size was unknown. METHODS A total o...

As the preceding articles indicate, school-located vaccination (SLV) shows great promise as a method to quickly and efficiently vaccinate large numbers of school-aged children against influenza. This approach can both relieve health care providers who lack sufficient capacity to effectively vaccinate their patients annually, in accordancewith the 2008 recommendations of Advisory Committee on Im...

Editor’s key points † A new EZ bronchial blocker was compared with double-lumen tube (DLT) for providing single-lung ventilation (SLV). † Forty patients undergoing thoracic surgery were randomized to one of the two groups. † EZ-Blocker (EZ) provided comparable quality of lung collapse to DLT, but took longer for its placement. † EZ will be an efficient alternative for SLV where DLT cannot be us...

The purpose of this study was to develop a single-laboratory validated (SLV) method using high-performance liquid chromatography with different detectors [diode array detector (DAD); fluorescence detector (FLD); and mass spectrometry (MS)] for determination of 7 B-complex vitamins (B1-thiamin, B2-riboflavin, B3-nicotinamide, B6-pyridoxine, B9-folic acid, pantothenic acid, and biotin) and vitami...

Cyber-Physical Systems (CPSs), comprising both software and physical components, arise in many industry-relevant domains are often mission- or safety-critical. System-Level Verification (SLV) of CPSs aims at certifying that given (e.g., safety liveness) specifications met, estimating the value some KPIs, when system runs its operational environment, i.e., presence inputs (from users other syste...

To the Editor S ince its introduction by Schnitzbauer et al 1 in 2012, associating liver partition and portal vein ligation for staged hepatectomy (ALPPS) became a promising strategy for patients with insufficient future liver remnant (FLR). Despite the efficacy of ALPPS in triggering rapid hypertrophy of FLR, high incidence of postoperative morbidity and mortality poses a major drawback, espec...

After a review of data from a single-laboratory validation (SLV) study published in the International Dairy Journal 21, 783-789 (2011), a method for folate in infant formula and adult/pediatric nutritional formula was submitted for consideration of adoption by AOAC as an automated assay that is rapid and simple. The method uses an optical biosensor assay to quantitate total folate content in mi...