We previously identified Rbf as an activator for biofilm formation on polystyrene surfaces in Staphylococcus aureus strain 8325-4. However, strain 8325-4 contains genetic mutations that may affect biofilm formation. To extend the observation to other strains, we used strain Newman, a weak biofilm producer, and strain UAMS-1, an osteomyelitis clinical strain, in this study. We found that mutatio...

BACKGROUND The burden of disease due to non-communicable diseases (NCDs) is rising in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) and funding for global health is increasingly limited. As a large contributor of development assistance for health, the US government has the potential to influence overall trends in NCDs. Results-based financing (RBF) has been proposed as a strategy to increase aid eff...

This paper developed a systematic strategy establishing RBF on the wavelet analysis, which includes continuous and discrete RBF orthonormal wavelet transforms respectively in terms of singular fundamental solutions and nonsingular general solutions of differential operators. In particular, the harmonic Bessel RBF transforms were presented for high-dimensional data processing. It was also found ...

Numerical models of glacier and ice sheet dynamics traditionally employ nite difference or nite element methods. Although these are highly developed and mature methods, they su er from some drawbacks, such as inability to handle complex geometries ( nite di erences) or a costly assembly procedure for nonlinear problems ( nite elements). Additionally, they are mesh-based, and therefore moving do...

Background. The accompanied role of Mas receptor (MasR), bradykinin (BK), and female sex hormone on renal blood flow (RBF) response to angiotensin 1-7 is not well defined. We investigated the role of MasR antagonist (A779) and BK on RBF response to Ang 1-7 infusion in ovariectomized estradiol-treated rats. Methods. Ovariectomized Wistar rats received estradiol (OVE) or vehicle (OV) for two week...

Two difficulties are involved with traditional RBF networks: the initial configuration of an RBF network needs to be determined by a trial-and-error method, and the performance suffers degradation when the desired locations of the center of the RBF are not suitable. A novel RBF network is proposed to overcome these difficulties. A new radial basis function is used for hidden nodes, and the numb...

This paper presents a structure-adaptive hybrid RBF-BP (SAHRBF-BP) classifier with an optimized learning strategy. SAHRBF-BP is composed of a structure-adaptive RBF network and a BP network of cascade, where the number of RBF hidden nodes is adjusted adaptively according to the distribution of sample space, the adaptive RBF network is used for nonlinear kernel mapping and the BP network is used...

In this review we bring together some of our recent work from the angle of the diversified RBF topologies, including three different topologies; (i) the RBF network with tunable nodes; (ii) the Box-Cox output transformation based RBF network (Box-Cox RBF); and (iii) the RBF network with boundary value constraints (BVC-RBF). We show that the modified topologies have some advantages over the conv...

Whether changes in renal blood flow (RBF) are associated with and possibly contribute to cystic disease progression in autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD) has not been ascertained. The Consortium for Radiologic Imaging Studies of Polycystic Kidney Disease (CRISP) was created to develop imaging techniques and analyses to evaluate progression. A total of 131 participants with ear...

Function Equalizer Design Sarat Kumar Patra , Bernard Mulgrew Dept of Electrical Engineering, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH9 3JL, UK. Tel: +44 131 6505655; fax: +44 131 650 6554 e-mail: [email protected] ABSTRACT This paper investigates the computational aspects of radial basis function (RBF) equalizers. In an RBF implementation of the Bayesian equalizer the RBF centers are placed at equ...