Results from aging tests on the bakelite used for the CMS RPCs are presented. Samples of melaminic bakelite were exposed to a heavy gamma and neutron radiation. Data on the bulk resistivity were collected while accumulating gamma and neutron doses and particles #uence up to values well beyond those expected in 10 years of RPCs operation in the barrel region of CMS. The test with gamma radiation...

Mycobacterium bovis is the causative agent of bovine tuberculosis, a disease that is increasing in incidence in United Kingdom cattle herds. In addition to increasing economic losses, the rise in bovine tuberculosis poses a human health risk. There is an urgent requirement for effective strategies for disease eradication; this will likely involve vaccination in conjunction with current test and...

In this paper, input selection is performed using two different approaches. The first approach is based on the Gamma test. This test estimates the mean square error (MSE) that can be achieved without overfitting. The best set of inputs is the one that minimises the result of the Gamma test. The second method estimates the Mutual Information between a set of inputs and the output. The best set o...

A simple anti-gamma-globulin consumption test for use in suspected Hashimoto's disease is described. Results in cases with positive and negative tanned red-cell tests are described.

A testing problem of homogeneity in gamma mixture models is studied. It is found that there is a proportion of the penalized likelihood ratio test statistic that degenerates to zero. The limiting distribution of this statistic is found to be the chi-bar-square distributions. The degeneration is due to the negative-definiteness of a complicated random matrix, depending on the shape parameter und...

We constructed non-linear predictive models for the River Kennet at Theale and the River Thames at Windsor using river and precipitation data from the Thames Valley region in the UK. Our approach used a novel non-linear data analysis technique called the Gamma test, combined with heuristic search techniques to provide a practical solution to the problem of constructing forward predictions of ri...

BACKGROUND Diagnosis of tuberculous (TB) pleuritis is difficult and better diagnostic tools are needed. New blood based interferon-gamma (IFN-gamma) tests are promising, but sensitivity could be low in HIV positive patients. The IFN-gamma tests have not yet been validated for use in pleural fluid, a compartment with higher level of immune activation than in blood. METHODS The QuantiFERON TB-G...

Considering that the existence of relativistic particles in protostellar jet has been confirmed by detection linearly polarized radio emission from HH 80-81 jet, we search for gamma-rays system using ten-year {\it Fermi}-LAT observations. A significant point-like $\gamma$-ray excess is found direction with Test-Statistic (TS) value $>$100, which likely produced jet. The spectrum extends only to...