Subtype determination and detection of drug resistant-associated mutations (DRM) were performed on 31 HIV-1 Western blot-positive sera during the 2005 second-generation HIV surveillance in Madagascar. Amplification and sequencing of at least one of the partial reverse transcriptase, protease, and partial envelope genes were successful for all strains. All three gene sequences were obtained for ...

—In this paper, we consider a digital radio mondiale (DRM) system using orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) with coherent detection at the receiver. The DRM pilots are two-dimensional distribution, linear interpolation and Wiener filter interpolation respectively used in the time and frequency domain as the channel estimation algorithm. We propose a low-complexity improved Wiener...

Digital Rights Management is a fairly recent technology — it came into use only in the mid 1990s. Nevertheless, it has already lived through a life cycle of ups and downs that many technologies would require decades for. Digital Rights Management, or DRM, has been called “the saviour” of intellectual property rights as well as “completely useless” in protecting assets; it has been said that it ...

Are elevated rates of false recall and recognition in the Deese-Roediger-McDermott (DRM) paradigm associated with false autobiographical memories in everyday life? To investigate this issue, the authors recruited participants who reported improbable memories of past lives and compared their DRM performance with that of control participants who reported having lived only one life (i.e., their cu...

Digital Rights Management (DRM) is becoming a key issue in our highly networked world. Piracy of digital goods of any kind (music, software, video) is growing day by day. In this scenario, many companies, organisations and administration-funded projects provide solutions for the implementation of digital rights management (DRM) systems. Nevertheless, although these solutions have several points...

In today's fast changing digital environment where global communications transcend national boundaries, and where digital products are sold on international markets, the development of digital rights management (DRM) in order to protect digital assets is becoming an increasingly important global issue, and is emerging as a formidable new challenge since the different national laws, policies and...

Backward Associative Strength (BAS) is considered as a good predictor of false memory (FM) produced by DeeseRoediger-McDermott (DRM) task. Previous study found that both semantic properties and BAS load on the same factor of the task (Brainerd et al., 2008). It is proposed that DRM lists composed of Situation Properties (SP) can elicit high FM at low BAS (Cann et al., 2011). We assume that SP c...

As part of its recently renewed interest in Africa, the European Commission has funded the 2-year project “AÏDA Advancing ICT for DRM (Disaster Risk Management) in Africa”. AÏDA is primarily an inventory of the ICT situation in Africa – at continental, regional and national scales – to guide European funding decisions in R&D and capacity building in Africa. The first project objective was to de...

The paper presents a fairly efficient approximation for the computation of variance-based sensitivity measures associated with a general, n-dimensional function of random variables. The proposed approach is based on a multiplicative version of the dimensional reduction method (M-DRM), in which a given complex function is approximated by a product of low dimensional functions. Together with the ...

The recent controversies surrounding Amazon's removal of George Orwell's '1984' from Kindle readers, the BBC's proposal to encrypt Freeview High Definition (HD) content and Microsoft's permanent ban on Xbox Live users who have modified or 'chipped' their consoles have all served to highlight the debate over Digital Rights Management (DRM) and digital copyright. In the past, DRM measures have be...