Bronchial wall area percent (WA% = 100 × wall area/total bronchial cross sectional area) is a standard computed tomographic (CT) measure of central airway morphology utilized in smokers with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Although it provides significant clinical correlations, the range of reported WA% is narrow. This suggests limited macroscopic change in response to smoking or ...

Tangential flow ultrafiltration (UF) was used to concentrate and recover bacterial indicators and enteric viruses from 100 liters of groundwater (GW; n = 10) and surface water (SW; n = 11) samples collected in Lower Yakima Valley, WA. Human and bovine enteric viruses were analyzed in SW and GW concentrates by real-time PCR by using integrated inhibition detection.

a School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, Washington State University, Pullman, WA 99164, USA b Materials Science and Engineering Program, Washington State University, Pullman, WA 99164, USA c Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA 99352, USA d Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA 99352, USA e Department of Chemist...

This review of the status Australian caddisflies focuses on publications from 1982 to 2022. Information is provided new species described in that period, keys, descriptions both adults and larvae, distribution families genera states/regions Northern Territory. Australia’s caddisfly fauna now totals 27 families, 111 868 species, with 97.9% endemic Australia (only 19 are known outside Australia, ...

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In this paper, we employ the concept of HMM-Sufficient Statistics (HMM-Suff Stat) and N-best speakers selection to realize a rapid implementation of Baum-Welch and MLLR. Only a single arbitrary utterance is required which is used to select the N-best speakers HMM-Suff Stat from the training database as adaptation data. Since HMM-Suff Stat are pre-computed offline, computation load is minimized....

1 Department of Pediatrics, School of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA. 2 Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health and Community Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA. 3 Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, School of Public Health and Community Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA. 4 Department of Biostatistics, School of P...