In 2005, RTI International researchers developed methods to generate synthesized population data on US households for the US Synthesized Population Database. These data are used in agent-based modeling, which simulates large-scale social networks to test how changes in the behaviors of individuals affect the overall network. Group quarters are residences where individuals live in close proximit...

objective: to estimate the size of groups at high risk of hiv, network scale up (nsu), an indirect method, was used. methods: 500 kermanian male aged 18 to 45 were recruited. 8 groups at high risk of hiv were defined: users of opium, unknown drug, ecstasy, and alcohol; intra‑venous drug users (idus; males who have extra‑marital sex with females (msf); male who have sex with female sex workers (...

Several reports have found a relation between polymorphisms of the vitamin D receptor gene (VDR) and the development of type 1 diabetes. We have examined the association of three VDR polymorphism with type 1 diabetes in 59 Chilean case-parents trios. Genotyping for Bsm1, Apa1 and Taq1 polymorphism were performed. Transmission/ disequiibrium tests were used to assess gene-disease associations th...

Reliable detection of other radio systems is crucial for systems that share the same frequency band. In wireless communication channels, there is uncertainty in the received signal level due to multipath fading and shadowing. Cooperative sensing techniques in which radio stations share their sensing information can improve the detection probability of other systems. In this paper, a new coopera...