Why are we still struggling to control the devastating effects of childhood tuberculosis? This disease has been with us since ancient times and yet, even with known effective prevention and treatment strategies, much of the world has unacceptable levels of childhood morbidity and mortality due to tuberculosis. As expected, progress in identification and treatment has occurred primarily in high-...

In this note we explore a useful equivalence relation for the delay distribution in the G/M/1 queue under two different service disciplines: (i) PS (Processor Sharing); and (ii) ROS (Random Order of Service). We provide a direct probabilistic argument to show that the sojourn time under PS is equal (in distribution) to the waiting time under ROS of a customer arriving to a non-empty system. We ...

To the Editor We read with great interest the article by Dong et al.1 The authors have identified a panel of markers in flow cytometry (FCM) that can help diagnose acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL) with great accuracy. We hereby share a similar experience. APL is a medical emergency requiring prompt diagnosis and early intervention. FCM facilitates a rapid diagnosis, since laboratory detection...

*Continuous stem radius changes (DR) include growth and water-related processes on the individual tree level. DR is assumed to provide carbon turnover information complementary to net ecosystem productivity (NEP) which integrates fluxes over the entire forest ecosystem. Here, we investigated the unexpectedly close relationship between NEP and DR and asked for causalities. *NEP (positive values ...

Video anomaly detection has gained significant attention in the current intelligent surveillance systems. We propose Deep Residual Spatiotemporal Translation Network (DR-STN), a novel unsupervised conditional Generative Adversarial (DR-cGAN) model with an Online Hard Negative Mining (OHNM) approach. The proposed DR-cGAN provides wider network to learn mapping from spatial temporal representatio...