Background: Despite the effective pre- and post-exposure treatments, at least 60,000 deaths from rabies occur worldwide every year. Post-exposure treatment is considered as one of the most significant measures for preventing human deaths in exposed individuals. The 2-1-1 rabies post-exposure treatment schedule known as Zagreb regimen is an abbreviated immunization plan in which a tissue cultu...

Hypomethylating agents, decitabine (DAC) and azacitidine, can act as prophylactic pre-emptive approaches after allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (allo-HSCT) a non-intensive bridging approach before allo-HSCT. However, they are rarely used part of conditioning regimens in patients with relapsed or refractory acute myeloid leukemia (AML). This retrospectively study included total...

STUDY OBJECTIVES To develop a practical pre-eastward flight treatment to advance circadian rhythms as much as possible but not misalign them with sleep. DESIGN One group had their sleep schedule advanced by 1 hour per day and another by 2 hours per day. SETTING Baseline at home, treatment in lab. PARTICIPANTS Young healthy adults (11 men, 15 women) between the ages of 22 and 36 years. I...

This paper discusses the problem of scheduling mul-tiprocessors in a hard real-time environment allowing imprecise computations. When results of the desired quality cannot be produced in time, then intermediate, imprecise results of acceptable quality are accepted. In an imprecise computation model, a task may be terminated any time after it has produced an acceptable result. Such tasks are log...

Background Carcinoembryonic Antigen (CEA) is a serum tumor marker that fun ctions as an early warning for the presence of recurrent disease (RD) in the follow-up of colorectal cancer (CRC) patients. Objective Aim of this study was to find the sensitivity and specificity of a bimonthly CEA measurement schedule, where a 20% CEA rise was indicative for the presence of RD, during follow-up of patie...

BACKGROUND The standard three-dose schedule of hepatitis B vaccines is frequently not completed, especially in adolescents. A primary study has confirmed the equivalence of a two-dose schedule of an Adult formulation of hepatitis B vaccine [Group HBV_2D] to a three-dose schedule of a Paediatric formulation in adolescents (11-15 years) [Group HBV_3D]. This follow-up study evaluated the five year...

One of the main inefficiencies in building management systems is the widespread use of schedule-based control when operating heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) systems. HVAC systems typically operate on a pre-designed schedule that heats or cools rooms in the building to a set temperature even when rooms are not being used. Occupants, however, influence the thermal behavior of bui...

Mostly-o sensor network applications alternate between long periods of inactivity (ranging from minutes to hours) and short periods of activity (normally a few seconds). From an energy consumption point of view, it is desirable that the network switch o completely during application inactive periods and wake-up e ciently at the start of application active periods. The fundamental problem preven...