OBJECTIVE To analyze the sequence difference between human A, B, and O alleles and establish the method of ABO genotyping by PCR direct sequencing. METHODS PCR-direct sequencing technique was used to analyze two regions of cDNA from A transferase gene, 233-433 and 660-788. RESULTS Two nucleotide substitutions at 258th and 297th were found in 233-433 region, and a nucleotide substitution at ...

Stress was firstly defined in 19351, as a reaction of humans to external stimuli. In the modern way of life and every day actions, the term stress is very common and has a significant influence on human reactions, health, work ability and mood. There is also a direct connection between stress and depression in humans2. Apart from adults, recent studies show that preschool children are also unde...

In this report we present an efficient anonymous authentication scheme that works in a manner similarly to the so-called Direct Anonymous Attestation in the setting of the Trusted Computing Platform. Our construction implements features such as total anonymity, variable anonymity, and rogue TPM tagging. The new scheme is significantly simpler, and more efficient than the current solution that h...

The aim of this paper is presented a method for obtaining a linguistic model that reflects the behavior of a combined well-known data. The method is based on the technique of successive division of the input space (as CART[1] and ID3[4]). The obtained rules have linguistic variables as antecedent and consequent. So, incorporating the concept of linguistic intervals (as disjunctions of linguisti...

| The dimension exchange method (DEM) was initially proposed as a load-balancing algorithm for the hypercube structure. It has been generalized to k-ary n-cubes. However, the k-ary n-cube algorithm must take many iterations to converge to a balanced state. In this paper, we propose a direct method to modify DEM. The new algorithm, Direct Dimension Exchange (DDE) method, takes load average in ev...

In this work, we are concerned with the di↵usive optical tomography (DOT) problem in the case when only one or two pairs of Cauchy data is available. We propose a simple and e cient direct sampling method (DSM) to locate inhomogeneities inside a homogeneous background and solve the DOT problem in both full and limited aperture cases. This new method is easy to implement and less expensive compu...

We describe our investigation of a fast 3D finite element method (FEM) for biomedical simulation of a muscle-activated human tongue. Our method uses a linear stiffness-warping scheme to achieve simulation speeds which are within a factor 10 of real-time rates at the expense of a small loss in accuracy. Muscle activations are produced by an arrangement of forces acting along selected edges of th...

In this work, coupled numerical analysis of interacting acoustic and dynamic models is focused. In this context, several numerical methods, such as the finite difference method, the finite element method, the boundary element method, meshless methods, and so forth, are considered to model each subdomain of the coupled model, and multidomain decomposition techniques are applied to deal with the ...