background: tuberculosis (tb) is a pandemic disease. it is the second leading cause of death from infectious diseases after human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) in the world . the main objective of this paper was to determine and compare the epidemiology of tb incidence rate and its trend changes during 1990-2010 in six who regions regarding age, gender and income levels. methods: the average ann...

Data as a Service (DaaS) builds on service-oriented technologies to enable fast access to data resources on the Web. Many approaches are proposed to achieve the DaaS composition task which is reduced to query rewriting problem. In this context, DaaS is described as Parametrized-RDF View (PRV ) over Domain Ontology (DO). However, the DO is unable to capture the different perspectives or viewpoin...

Tuberculosis (TB) is a major global health problem, infecting millions of people each year. The causative agent of TB, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, is one of the world's most ancient and successful pathogens. However, until recently, no work on small regulatory RNAs had been performed in this organism. Regulatory RNAs are found in all three domains of life, and have already been shown to regulat...

OSS embodies the operations that telcos must carry out to meet customer satisfaction and generate revenue. Current and emerging OSS requirements place very strict requirements on the telecommunication management architecture. The distributed mediation-based management architecture has shown the kind of capability required to handle the ever-changing OSS needs. A mediation-based management syste...

Considering its mediation role between the poles of rhythm, harmony, and melody, the bass plays a crucial role in most music genres. This paper introduces a novel set of transcription-based high-level features that characterize the bass and its interaction with other participating instruments. Furthermore, a new method to model and automatically retrieve different genre-specific bass playing st...

In many institutions, data analysts use a Biomedical Query Mediation (BQM) process to facilitate data access for medical researchers. However, understanding of the BQM process is limited in the literature. To bridge this gap, we performed the initial steps of a cognitive task analysis using 31 BQM instances conducted between one analyst and 22 researchers in one academic department. We identifi...

To study mediation, investigators sometimes examine the effect of an independent variable on an unrelated filler task that precedes the focal task. This approach assumes that the same psychological process drives performance on both tasks. The authors tested this assumption in a stereotype threat paradigm by manipulating whether or not the intervening task was described as relevant to the gende...