Cytokines such as TNFα can polarize microglia/macrophages into different neuroinflammatory types. Skewing of the phenotype towards a cytotoxic state is thought to impair phagocytosis and has been described in Alzheimer's Disease (AD). Neuroinflammation can be perpetuated by a cycle of increasing cytokine production and maintenance of a polarized activation state that contributes to AD progressi...

The use of topical anesthesia to perform intradermal tests (IDTs) for drug allergy diagnosis was never investigated. We aimed to determine the effects of a topical anesthetic patch containing prilocaine-lidocaine on wheal size of IDT with drugs. Patients who had positive IDT as part of their investigation process of suspected drug hypersensitivity were selected. IDT were performed according to ...

The Indirect Tension Test (IDT) is frequently used for evaluation of asphalt material viscoelastic creep properties. With the increased use of finer aggregate gradations and polymer modified asphalt binders in asphalt materials, crushing can occur under the narrow loading heads. The new specimen configuration proposed has a trimmed area under the loading heads, creating a “flattened-IDT.” This ...

We give a link between stochastic processes which are infinitely divisible with respect to time (IDT) and Lévy processes. We investigate the connection between the selfsimilarity and the strict stability for IDT processes. We also consider a subordination of a Lévy process by an increasing IDT process. We introduce a notion of multiparameter IDT stochastic processes, extending the one studied b...

Poor reciprocity is a defining feature of an autism spectrum disorder (ASD). In the current study, we examined the reliability and validity of the Interactive Drawing Test (IDT), a new instrument to assess reciprocal behavior. The IDT was administered to children and adolescents with ASD (n = 131) and to a typically developing group (n = 62). The IDT had excellent inter-rater reliability and mo...

Surface acoustic wave (SAW) devices based on Rayleigh wave, shear wave, love wave, acoustic plate mode (APM) wave and flexural plate wave have been explored for sensors, actuators and telecommunication applications. An interdigital transducer (IDT) is a metallic comb-like structure fabricated over piezoelectric substrate. SAWs are generated over the substrate by applying electrical signal to th...

Generalizes our temporal convolutions Unifies our unary and temporal models New results on GTEA, 50 Salads, & JIGSAWS 1) Improved Dense Trajectories (IDT) + Bag of Words do not work well on FGAR 2) Spatial & Spatiotemporal CNNs have been proposed, but IDT (or CNN+IDT) is typically superior [Sun ICCV15, Heilbron CVPR15, Simonyan ICLR15, Jain CVPR15, Tran ICCV15, Karpathy CVPR14, ...] 3) Current ...

This paper presents design and vacuum measurements of lithium niobate (LN) contour-mode resonators (CMR). By carefully positioning the inter-digital transducer (IDT), we achieved CMRs with kt×Q of 7%*2150=148 (IDT @ node) or resonators with very high kt of 12.3% and spur-attenuated response (IDT @ anti-node). In addition, we demonstrated resonators with frequencies ranging from 400MHz to 800MHz...

Workflow model performance analysis plays an important role in the research of workflow techniques and efficient implementation of workflow management. Instances dwelling times (IDT) which consist of waiting times and handle times in a workflow model is a key performance analysis goal. In a workflow model the instances which act as customers and the resources which act as servers form a queuing...

Allergy skin testing is considered a safe method for testing for IgE-mediated allergic responses although anaphylactic events can occur. Reported rates of anaphylaxis per patient are not consistent and range from 0.008 to 4%. The aim of this study was to determine the rate of epinephrine use associated with allergy skin-prick testing (SPT) and intradermal testing (IDT) in a suburban practice ov...