BACKGROUND Human norovirus (NoV) causes more than 80% of nonbacterial gastroenteritis in Europe and the United States. NoV transmission via contaminated surfaces may be significant for the spread of viruses. Therefore, measures for prevention and control, such as surface disinfection, are necessary to interrupt the dissemination of human NoV. Murine norovirus (MNV) as a surrogate for human NoV ...

Incorporating time to the security management system is an important step to streamline its integration with other resource management functions in the real-time distributed systems. In addition to protecting its security properties, minimizing operational overheads of security management is also a major design issue. In this paper, we propose a timed zero knowledge proof (TZKP) protocol to sup...

We have discussed previously that a community-based, asset-based approach is required to achieve any sense of how social sustainability can be defined in a community setting within the context of energy developments. Our approach aims to initiate a lasting change within 'energy' communities through building social capital; focusing on community assets not deficits to define their social priorit...

a Breast Cancer Service for Young Women, Fellow of the Dr Pinchas Borenstein Talpiot Medical Leadership Program, Oncology Institute, Tel Hashomer, Israel; b GBG Forschungs GmbH, Neu-Isenburg, Germany; c Fertility & Procreation Unit, Division of Gynecologic Oncology, European Institute of Oncology, Milan, Italy; d Klinika Onkologii i Radioterapii, Uniwersyteckie Centrum Kliniczne, Gda ’ nsk, Poland

A bleeding pseudoaneurysm of the peripancreatic artery can present with massive upper gastrointestinal hemorrhage. History of pancreatitis and urgent imaging are crucial in the making of the diagnosis. Here, we report a patient with alcoholic chronic pancreatitis presented with ruptured pseudoaneurysm of gastroduodenal artery (GDA). He was treated with percutaneous angiographic embolisation.

This paper describes the basic tools for a real-time decision support system of a semiotic type on the example of the prototype for management and monitoring of a nuclear power block implemented on the basis of the tool complex G2+GDA using cognitive graphics and parallel processing. This work was supported by RFBR (project 02-07-90042).

Nonparametric two sample testing is a decision theoretic problem that involves identifying differences between two random variables without making parametric assumptions about their underlying distributions. We refer to the most common settings as mean difference alternatives (MDA), for testing differences only in first moments, and general difference alternatives (GDA), which is about testing ...