Animal models of stroke have been investigated for many years to understand the behaviour and function following the human condition. The aim of this study was to utilize an established motion analysis technique and the Cardiff Classification tool based around Dempster-Shafer theory (DST) to quantify temporal gait and postural gait parameter of a rat model of stroke. Marker based motion analysi...

Four out of 143 phenotypically isoniazid-resistant but rifampin-susceptible Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains that were isolated from patients in Germany in 2011 had mutations in the rifampin resistance-determining region of rpoB. After performing drug susceptibility testing (DST) with two methods, the proportion method on Löwenstein-Jensen medium and using the Bactec 960 Mycobacteria Growth I...

the complete 3d nonlinear dynamic problem of extensible, flexible risers conveying fluid is considered. for describing the dynamics of the system, the newtonian derivation procedure is followed. the velocity field inside the pipe formulated using hydrostatic and bernoulli equations. the hydrodynamic effects of external fluids are taken into consideration through the nonlinear drag forces in var...

Severe storms (Dst) and Forbush decreases (FD) during cycle 23 showed that maximum negative Dst magnitudes usually occurred almost simultaneously with the maximum negative values of the Bz component of interplanetary magnetic field B, but the maximum magnitudes of negative Dst and Bz were poorly correlated (+0.28). A parameter Bz(CP) was calculated (cumulative partial Bz) as sum of the hourly n...

The development of LSI technology makes it possible to partition a system into replaceable modules, and the advent of low-cost microprocessors makes possible networks of hundreds (or more) of interconnected modules. The problem of repairing such a system is becoming a matter of major importance in digital systems. In this paper a new procedure for defining an optimal design with respect to cost...

Abstract One parameter frequently considered to be relevant for superspreading of trisiloxane surfactants is surface tension kinetics. In the scientific literature, some experimental results reported are in contradiction with fundamental concepts surfactant monomer diffusion. Therefore, maximum bubble pressure tensiometry has been used determine dynamic (DST) two types surfactants: superspreade...

Abstract: In paper two types of the discrete cosine (and sine) transforms (DCT/DST) are analyzed. These transforms are useful for many applications. It is shown that if an operator, connected with the Discrete Fourier Transform (DFT), is referred to an appropriate basis it takes block-diagonal form. These blocks coincide with DCT-2/DST-2 for even dimensions of the signals’ space and with DCT6/D...

A cohort of endogenous depressives and normal controls were studied to examine the role of DST in depressives treated with ECT. Weekly DST estimation was done and depression was assessed on HRS-D. 73.6% patients were found to be non suppressors as compared to controls in whom 16.7% were non suppressors. 60% DST positive patients showed clinical improvement while 50% DST negative did not show im...

BACKGROUND Sputum samples were collected from tuberculosis patients in a high tuberculosis incidence area in the Western Cape, South Africa. The aim of this study was to evaluate the performance and time to diagnosis of a genotypic drug susceptibility testing method. METHODOLOGY During June 2000 and November 2003, a total of 1,540 samples were sent for drug susceptibility testing (DST) to the...