BACKGROUND Newborn screening (NBS) for the classic forms of congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH) is mandated in all states in the United States. Compared with other NBS disorders, the false-positive rate (FPR) of CAH screening remains high and has not been significantly improved by adjusting 17α-hydroxyprogesterone cutoff values for birth weight and/or gestational age. Minnesota was the first s...

This research explored the opinion of incumbent CEOs family businesses on critical issue sustainability a business, succession. The CEO has irreplaceable rights to make important decisions with regard business We used Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) methodology by dividing variables into two tiers. first-tier four categories 1) relationship successor, 2) successor’s management ability, 3) self...

Near-field inductive channels created between two or more magnetically coupled inductive nodes are studied in this paper. Peerto-peer configurations and array architectures are discussed. The array channels are used for cooperative relaying with inductive methods with potential to provide range extension and enhanced data rate access in magnetic induction communication systems. The received pow...

Current response to intervention models (RTIs) favor a three-tier system. In general, Tier 1 consists of evidence-based, effective reading instruction in the classroom and universal screening of all students at the beginning of the grade level to identify children for early intervention. Non-responders to Tier 1 receive small-group tutoring in Tier 2. Non-responders to Tier 2 are given still mo...

This article presents an ontology-based peerto-peer network that facilitates efficient search for data in wide-area networks. Data with the same semantics are grouped together into onedimensional semantic ring space in the upper-tier network. This is achieved by applying an ontologybased semantic clustering technique and dedicating part of node identifiers to correspond to their data semantics....

OF THE DISSERTATION On the Scalability of Ad Hoc Wireless Networks By SULI ZHAO Dissertation Director: Professor Dipankar Raychaudhuri This dissertation considers the problem of scaling ad hoc wireless networks now being applied to urban mesh and sensor networks scenarios. Ad hoc networks involve multi-hop communication which has inherent scaling problems in that throughput per node drops as th...

The automotive sector operates under the just-in-time (JIT) approach, but variations in demand mean that first-tier suppliers generate an accumulation of stocks at second-tier suppliers. Second-tier have a limitation storage space, reason to limit their production size warehouse, always attending plan. A further supplier is number empty reusable containers delivers and are used package injected...

Multi-tier computing can enhance the task computation by multi-tier nodes. In this paper, we propose a cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) aided system deploying nodes to improve performance. At first, investigate computational latency and total energy consumption for computation, regarded as cost. Then, formulate cost minimization problem design bandwidth allocation allocat...