INTRODUCTION The rapid and accurate diagnosis of HIV-associated tuberculosis (TB), timely initiation of curative or preventative treatment and assurance of favourable treatment outcomes is a complex process. The current system of monitoring and reporting TB diagnosis and treatment does not include several key aspects of the care cascade, and may obscure systematic bottlenecks, inefficiencies or...

This work was carried out while the author was a National Science Foundation predoctoral fellow. The author expresses his appreciation to D. C. Spencer for suggesting this problem and for his help and advice in the preparation of this paper. 1 M. P. Gaffney, "The Heat Equation Method of Milgram and Rosenbloom for Open Riemannian Manifolds," Ann. Math. (to appear). 2 D. C. Spencer, "The Heat Equ...

This paper presents an improved 4-bit twostage Multi-stAge noise Shaping (MASH) delta-sigma modulator (DSM). The two-stage MASH DSM utilizes the second-order chain of Cascade of Integrators with Feedforward (CIFF) and the Cascade of Integrators with distributed Feedback (CIFB) architectures for the first and second stages, respectively. The 4-bit CIFF requires an active adder, which is conventi...

Halonium-initiated cascade reaction of 1-alkenoylcyclopropane carboxamides was developed, which leads to the production of dihydrofuropyridinones and 3(2H)-furanones, respectively, depending on the property of substituents on the enone moiety.

The problem of learning classifier cascades is considered. A new cascade boosting algorithm, fast cascade boosting (FCBoost), is proposed. FCBoost is shown to have a number of interesting properties, namely that it 1) minimizes a Lagrangian risk that jointly accounts for classification accuracy and speed, 2) generalizes adaboost, 3) can be made cost-sensitive to support the design of high detec...

Abstract. A conservative cascade is an iterative process that fragments a given set into smaller and smaller pieces according to a rule which preserves the total mass of the initial set at each stage of the construction almost surely and not just in expectation. Motivated by the importance of conservative cascades in analyzing multifractal behavior of measured Internet traffic traces, we consid...

Semiconductor cascade lasers have larger photon noise than conventional semiconductor lasers as a result of positive correlations in photon emission in different gain stages which are connected electrically in series. The photon noise of a cascade laser can be related to the photon noise of a single-stage laser with a scaled external circuit impedance. This scaling relation for the photon noise...

The article examines the current topic of protection intellectual property rights with use insurance. advantages insurance over compensation on basis judicial are substantiated. Analysis scientific research has shown that practice law enforcement a number problems, so creates an opportunity to compensate for losses much faster and more efficiently. risks associated disposal have been studied. T...