We report 13 cases of Naegleria fowleri primary amebic meningoencephalitis in persons in Karachi, Pakistan, who had no history of aquatic activities. Infection likely occurred through ablution with tap water. An increase in primary amebic meningoencephalitis cases may be attributed to rising temperatures, reduced levels of chlorine in potable water, or deteriorating water distribution systems.

Predictive maintenance is a promising solution to keep the long-run operation of industrial systems at high reliability and low cost. In this spirit, we aim develop an adaptive predictive model for continuously deteriorating single-unit subject periodic inspection, imperfect repair perfect replacement. The development consists four steps: degradation modeling, effect policy elaboration, perform...

Corrigendium to “Model development for deteriorating inventory in material requirement planning systems” [Computer & Industrial Engineering 36 (1999) 219–225] H.M. Wee*, Jonas C.P. Yu, Sh-Tyan Law Department of Industrial Engineering, Chung Yuan Christian University, Chungli 32023, Taiwan, ROC Institute of Industrial Management National Central University, Chungli 32023, Taiwan, ROC Logistics M...

Fluid balance is essential for normal functioning of the body. Oliguria (poor urine output) is usually associated with low circulatory blood volume (hypovolaemia), and can be a sign that a patient is acutely ill and deteriorating. Early warning scoring systems should identify the condition so that appropriate interventions can be undertaken to restore urine output and protect renal function.

A Reliability-based Opportunistic Predictive Maintenance Model for k-out-of-n Deteriorating Systems Tuan K. Huynh*, Anne Barros, Christophe Bérenguer Université de Technologie de Troyes, ICD & STMR UMR CNRS 6279, 12 rue Marie Curie, CS42060, 10004 Troyes cedex, France Gipsa-lab, CNRS, Grenoble Institute of Technology, 11 rue des Mathématiques, BP46, 38402 Saint Martin d’Hères cedex, France tuan...

Water distribution systems are complex interconnected networks that require extensive planning and maintenance to ensure that the drinking water is delivered to the consumers. Lack of adequate water supply in urban areas is due to aging water distribution systems and inadequate maintenance of this critical infrastructure (Bhave 2003). The reliability of such deteriorating systems is continually...

The conditional phrase translation probabilities constitute the principal components of phrase-based machine translation systems. These probabilities are estimated using a heuristic method that does not seem to optimize any reasonable objective function of the word-aligned, parallel training corpus. Earlier efforts on devising a better understood estimator either do not scale to reasonably size...