Most people with epilepsy (PWE) live in developing countries with limited access to health care facilities. In sub-Saharan Africa with approximately 12 million PWE, 90% do not receive adequate medical treatment. In this context, traditional medicine, being easily accessible, plays an important role. However, in sub- Saharan Africa, studies on the attitude of people (both affected and not affect...

Large amounts of hydrocarbon reserves are trapped in naturally fractured reservoirs which arechallenging in terms of accurate recovery prediction because of their joint fabric complexity andlithological heterogeneity. Canada, for example, has over 400 billion barrels of crude oil in fracturedcarbonates in Alberta, most of this being bitumen of viscosity greater than 106 cP in the GrosmontFormat...

A comparison of two pitch detection algorithms using frequency domain analysis is presented. The algorithm showing the best results based on a perfomance evaluation done by a phonetician will be selected for use in an automatic speech recogni tion (ASR-) system based on the acoustic phonetic approach using knowledge-bases with an expert system. The first algori thm is the Seneff pi tch detectio...

G r i f f i t h s and Pet.rick (1965) propose several algori thms for recognizing sentences of contex t f ree grammars in the general case One of these algor i thms, the NBT (Non-select ive Bottom to Top) Algor i thm, has since been ca l led a " l e f t c o r n e r " algor i thm. Of l a te , i n te res t has been rekindled in l e f t co rne r parsers. Chester (1980) proposes a modi f ica t ion ...

This discussion paper is/has been under review for the journal Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (ACP). Please refer to the corresponding final paper in ACP if available. Abstract To provide a better representation of natural ice clouds, a novel ice cloud model containing two particle habits is developed. The microphysical and optical properties of the two-habit model (THM) are compared with bo...

Th is paper proposes a new a lgor i thm which when provided the relative costs of computa­ t ion vs. probing minimizes the to ta l cost of diagnosis. Dur ing the diagnosis process the de­ cision of whether to probe or to compute is dependent on the expected costs and benefits of each al ternat ive. I t is unl ikely tha t we w i l l be able to find general analyt ic and simpleto-compute models f...

To provide a better representation of natural ice clouds, a novel ice cloud model is developed by assuming an ice cloud to consist of an ensemble of hexagonal columns and 20-element aggregates with specific habit fractions at each particle size bin. The microphysical and optical properties of this two-habit model (THM) are compared with both laboratory and in situ measurements, and its performa...

BACKGROUND Trihalomethanes (THMs) are water disinfection by-products that have been associated with bladder cancer and adverse birth outcomes. Four THMs (bromoform, chloroform, bromodichloromethane, dibromochloromethane) were measured in blood and tap water of U.S. adults in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) 1999-2006. THMs are metabolized to potentially toxic/mutage...

Trihalomethanes (THM) are undesired disinfection byproducts (DBPs) formed during water treatment. Mice exposed to DBPs showed global DNA hypomethylation and c-myc and c-jun gene-specific hypomethylation, while evidence of epigenetic effects in humans is scarce. We explored the association between lifetime THM exposure and DNA methylation through an epigenome-wide association study. We selected ...

The present study aimed to investigate the effects of miR-338 on morphine tolerance through the targeting of CXC chemokine receptor-4 (CXCR4) in a rat model of bone cancer pain (BCP). Sprague-Dawley (SD) rats were obtained and divided into model saline (n=10), model morphine (n=50), normal saline (n=10) and normal morphine (healthy rats, n=10) groups. After BCP rat model establishment, the rema...