In the study of 782 biopsy specimens from 1 95 patients during and after chemotherapy we compared the numbers of Mycobacterium /eprae stained by the Fite-Faraco (FF) and the Gomori methenamine-silver (GMS) techniques. In many patients large amounts of non-acid-fast M. /eprae or remnants thereof remained 66 months after starting effective multidrug therapy. The GMS stain is a useful method for a...

Algorithms for solving agreement problems can be classified in two categories: (1) those relying on failure detectors that we call FD-based, and (2) those that rely on a Group Membership Service that we call GMS-based. The paper discusses the advantages and limitations of these two approaches, and proposes an extension to the GMS-approach that combines the advantages of both approaches, without...

Understanding the underlying molecular mechanism of how graphene materials (GMs) interact with biological surfaces is key to develop safe and effective biomedical applications GMs. Here, a systematic comprehensive mechanistic perspective interactions between pristine GMs membranes provided. To this end, first known mechanisms interaction membrane components are summarized classified, focus on p...

This study presents the strength development and durability of heat non-heat-cured geopolymer mortars (GMs) produced using metakaolin (MK), ground granulated blast-furnace slag (GGBFS), silica fume (SF), calcined perlite (GCP), raw (RP), potassium hydroxide (KOH), sodium metasilicate (Na2SiO3), standard sand, tap water. An optimal combination MK with various pozzolans constant solid/liquid alka...

The Gibbs sampler is a particularly popular Markov chain used for learning and inference problems in Graphical Models (GMs). These tasks are computationally intractable in general, and the Gibbs sampler often suffers from slow mixing. In this paper, we study the SwendsenWang dynamics which is a more sophisticated Markov chain designed to overcome bottlenecks that impede the Gibbs sampler. We pr...

Learning parameters of latent graphical models (GM) is inherently much harder than that of nolatent ones since the latent variables make the corresponding log-likelihood non-concave. Nevertheless, expectation-maximization schemes are popularly used in practice, but they are typically stuck in local optima. In the recent years, the method of moments have provided a refreshing angle for resolving...

This paper presents a real-time and on-chip gait measurement algorithm used in our Gait Measurement System (GMS). Our GMS is a small foot-mounted device based on an Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU), which contains an accelerometer and a gyroscope. The GMS can compute spatio-temporal gait parameters in real-time and transmit them to a remote receiver. Measured gait parameters include cadence, vel...

Based on the emergence and spread throughout the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) of multiple artemisinin-resistant lineages, the prevalence of multidrug resistance leading to high rates of artemisinin-based combination treatment failure in parts of the GMS, and the declining malaria burden in the region, the World Health Organization has recommended complete elimination of falciparum malaria fro...