Using an indirect immunofluorescent-antibody method, antigonococcal IgA was detected in the cervical secretions of 56 (72%) of 78 women with untreated gonorrhoea but in only 25 (5%) of 490 non-infected women. The low sensitivity--comparable to that of Gram-stain microscopy--the expense, and the laboriousness of the test militate against its use as a routine diagnostic procedure.

The CALTREC project automated the process of creating travel expense claims for the state of California. This project is a good representative of the types of projects expected to be done by the state. The application is heavily embedded in traditional data processing systems, which added much additional work outside the scope of what is considered to be knowledge engineering. The state of Cali...

If you’re new to system dynamics, it may be hard to see a pragmatic application to your business needs. This companion article to “Pipeline Inventory: The Missing Factor in Organizational Expense Management” [1] describes a seemingly simple problem and how a common approach may make things worse, not better. System dynamics offers an effective, easy solution. The associated model can be downloa...

An overview of overcurrent and overvoltage CSI faults is presented and strategies, how to protect a CSI equipped with IGBT power switches against these failures are developed and explained. The shown strategies and the related circuits are applicable at low expense and require only minor changes in the CSI and its control.

In this paper we introduce a new low power address bus encoding technique, and the resulting code, named ALBORZ. The ALBORZ code is constructed based on transition signaling the limited-weight codes and, with enhancements to make it adaptive and irredundant, results in up to 89% reduction in the instruction bus switching activity at the expense of a small area overhead.

Each year, there are as many cases of nonmelanoma skin cancer as all other cancers combined. Although there is relatively low attributable mortality, the morbidity and expense of treatment is significant. Unlike many other malignancies, host and environmental factors relevant to the pathophysiology have been clearly demonstrated. Surgical ablation remains the mainstay of treatment.

The FASB recently proposed the capitalization of acquired in-process R&D costs to replace the current practice of expensing this item. This proposal will likely be strongly opposed by corporate executives. We examine whether in-process R&D is an asset worthy of capitalization or an expense, and, if it is an asset, how reliable is its estimate. We find a significant association between the value...

The FASB recently proposed the capitalization of acquired in-process R&D costs to replace the current practice of expensing this item. This proposal will likely be strongly opposed by corporate executives. We examine whether in-process R&D is an asset worthy of capitalization or an expense, and, if it is an asset, how reliable is its estimate. We find a significant association between the value...

This paper presents a theoretical analysis of strategic competition in retail banking when some of the ®rms show expense preference behavior. The literature on expense preference behavior by banking ®rms is fairly large, but to our knowledge, so far, the strategic interaction between pro®t maximizing banks and banks with expense preference behavior has not been investigated. The paper has also ...