BACKGROUND Home HIV counselling and testing (HTC) achieves high coverage of testing and linkage to care compared with existing facility-based approaches, particularly among asymptomatic individuals. In a modelling analysis we aimed to assess the effect on population-level health and cost-effectiveness of a community-based package of home HTC in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. METHODS We paramete...

HTC cells2 are characterized by the same distinct set of gly coproteins and glycolipids. This set of glycoconjugates is dif ferent from that of Reuber H-35 cells or normal hepatocytes (3, 8). Most of the glycoproteins and glycolipids are turned over as units with half-lives of 75 to 100 hr (3, 28). The quantitative and qualitative composition of membrane glyco proteins is quite stable; for inst...

Hierarchical Text Categorization (HTC) is the task of generating (usually by means of supervised learning algorithms) text classifiers that operate on hierarchically structured classification schemes. Notwithstanding the fact that most largesized classification schemes for text have a hierarchical structure, so far the attention of text classification researchers has mostly focused on algorithm...

Hierarchical text categorization (HTC) refers to assigning a text document to one or more most suitable categories from a hierarchical category space. In this paper we present two HTC techniques based on kNN and SVM machine learning techniques for categorization process and byte n-gram based document representation. They are fully language independent and do not require any text preprocessing s...

INTRODUCTION Focusing resources for HIV control on geographic areas of greatest need in countries with generalized epidemics has been recommended to increase cost-effectiveness. However, socioeconomic inequalities between areas of high and low prevalence could raise equity concerns and have been largely overlooked. We describe spatial patterns in HIV prevalence in east Zimbabwe and test for ine...

Swine and chicken manures are abundant solid wastes that can be converted into carbonaceous materials through hydrothermal carbonization (HTC). Owing to their unique biochemical compositions, co-HTC of these two types may have significant implications for the generated products. We investigated swine manure understand influence interaction between contrasting on properties derived The results i...

BACKGROUND Correction of anaemia in moderate to advanced renal failure is still a matter of debate because of postulated detrimental effects of erythropoietin on the progression of renal damage. METHODS The renal effects of early normalization of haematocrit (Htc) by erythropoietin (rHuEpo) were investigated from the time of 5/6 nephrectomy up to 8 weeks post-intervention in three groups of r...

INTRODUCTION For the assessment on medical response capacity for disaster in local area (such as rescue capacity, transport capacity and treatment capacity), it is necessary to assess it in peace time, and understand how many sufferers from disaster the hospital can respond to. Here the estimated formula of Hospital Treatment Capacity (hereinafter shortened to HTC), the maximum receivable numbe...

This contribution presents an experimental approach to learner modeling of Historical Text Comprehension (HTC). The Learner Model of Historical Text Comprehension (LMHTC), infers the learner’s cognitive profile and profile descriptor of HTC from his observable behavior imitating the human expert. The experimental research, which resulted in the design of the learner model, is described in detai...

In this paper, a xed-horizon H 1 tracking control (HTC) for discrete time-varying systems is obtained via the dynamic game theory in state-feedback case. From HTC, an intervalwise receding horizon H 1 tracking control (IHTC) for discrete periodic systems is suggested using the intervalwise strategy. The conditions under which IHTC stabilizes the closed-loop system are proposed. Under proposed s...