UNLABELLED Background. A study was designed to compare the efficacy of anesthesia between transthecal digit block (TDB) and single injection volar subcutaneous block. METHODS A 36-patient, randomized, controlled, prospective investigation was undertaken. The parameters included the onset of time to achieve anesthesia, visual analog scale pain score during the infiltration, and anesthesia ...

The X-ray source 4U 1820−30 in the globular cluster NGC 6624 is known as the most compact binary among the identified X-ray binaries. Having an orbital period of 685.0 s, the source consists of a neutron star primary and likely a 0.06–0.08 M⊙ white dwarf secondary. Here we report on far-ultraviolet (FUV) observations of this X-ray binary, made with the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph on bo...

BACKGROUND Specific cellular cytotoxic immune responses (CTL) are important in combating viral diseases and a highly desirable feature in the development of targeted HIV vaccines. Adjuvants are key components in vaccines and may assist the HIV immunogens in inducing the desired CTL responses. In search for appropriate adjuvants for CD8(+) T cells it is important to measure the necessary immunol...

In this paper, we survey algorithms that allocate a parallel program represented by an edge-weighted directed acyclic graph (DAG), also called a task graph or macrodataflow graph, to a set of homogeneous processors, with the objective of minimizing the completion time. We analyze 21 such algorithms and classify them into four groups. The first group includes algorithms that schedule the DAG to ...

In a number of higher plants, a substantial portion of the genome is composed of repetitive sequences that can hinder genome annotation and sequencing efforts. To better understand the nature of repetitive sequences in plants and provide a resource for identifying such sequences, we constructed databases of repetitive sequences for 12 plant genera: Arabidopsis, Brassica, Glycine, Hordeum, Lotus...

Recent technological advances in modern healthcare have lead to a vast wealth of patient data being collected. This data is not only utilised for diagnosis but also has the potential to be used for medical research. However, there are often many errors in datasets used for medical research, with one study finding error rates ranging from 2.3% to 26.9% in a selection of medical research database...

The T-cell adjuvanticity of mycobacterial cord factor trehalose 6,6'-dimycolate (TDM) is well established. The identification of the C-type lectin Mincle on innate immune cells as the receptor for TDM and its synthetic analogue trehalose 6,6'-dibehenate (TDB) has raised interest in development of synthetic Mincle ligands as novel adjuvants. Trehalose mono- (TMXs) and diesters (TDXs) with symmet...

The present study aims to evaluate the performance of evaporation-assisted humidification–dehumidification (E-HDH) desalination, specifically direct evaporative (DE-HDH), indirect (IE-HDH), and Maisotsenko (ME-HDH) systems. To achieve this, a thermodynamic modeling approach is utilized, which incorporates wet bulb effectiveness method, psychrometric relationships humid air, equations that gover...

The only licensed vaccine Mycobacterium bovis Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) cannot prevent the prevalence of tuberculosis (TB), which remains a major public health problem worldwide. A more effective TB vaccine than BCG is urgently needed. Subunit vaccine is a promising strategy, and suitable adjuvants will benefit the development of effective TB subunit vaccines. MTO, consisting of monophosph...