BACKGROUND Effective management of trauma-related invasive fungal wound infections (IFIs) depends on early diagnosis and timely initiation of treatment. We evaluated the utility of routine staining, histochemical stains and frozen section for fungal element identification. METHODS A total of 383 histopathological specimens collected from 66 combat-injured United States military personnel with...

BACKGROUND The Geriatric Mental State (GMS) is the most widely used psychiatric research assessment for older persons. Evidence for validity comes from the developed world. AIMS To assess the validity of GMS/AGECAT organicity and depression diagnoses in 26 centres in India, China, Latin America and Africa. METHOD We studied 2941 persons aged 60 years and over: 742 people with dementia and t...

In this paper, a challenging power system problem of effectively scheduling generating units for maintenance is presented and solved. The problem of generator maintenance scheduling (GMS) is solved in order to generate optimal preventive maintenance schedules of generators that guarantee improved economic benefits and reliable operation of a power system, subject to satisfying system load deman...

The development of law is inseparable from the society, especially science and technology. impact advances in technology information, namely GMS activities that must be owned by Company holding GMS, this can done through electronic media then each e-GMS result poured into Minutes made a Notary registered with Financial Services Authority based on Law Number 40 2007 Limited Liability Companies. ...

The Bureau of Meteorology (the Bureau) has an extensive archive of geostationary satellite imagery, which is derived from a number of data sources. Most of this data now exists in a single data format, namely Man computer Interactive Data Access System (McIDAS) AREA. The McIDAS system was commissioned in the Bureau in 1985 and used to digitise locally received analogue GMS-3 data as its geostat...

Accurate forest cover mapping is essential for monitoring the status of extent in Southeast Asia. However, tropical areas frequently experience cloud cover, resulting invalid or missing data thematic maps. The initial 2005 and 2010 maps produced by collaboration Greater Mekong Subregion Malaysia (GMS+) economies contain unclassified pixels affected shadow. To enhance usability effectiveness GMS...

The whole-genome sequences of seven fatal enterovirus 71 (EV71) strains, isolated in southern China, in 2014, were determined. The complete genome sequences of these strains displayed close relationships to native EV71 strains and showed 94.2% to 99.8% identity to each other. All of these strains were assigned to subgenotype C4a based on phylogenetic analysis of the VP1 gene.

A new contract for general practitioners (GPs) was introduced in the UK on 1 April 2004 which has implications for secondary care. In particular, the contract means that GPs can opt out of out-of-hours care, and accident & emergency services have voiced their concern that their workload may increase as a result. The new contract provides the potential for a rise in GPs' salaries by two means: t...

Thesauri can be useful resources for indexing and retrieval on the Semantic Web, but often they are not published in RDF/OWL. To convert thesauri to RDF for use in Semantic Web applications and to ensure the quality and utility of the conversion a structured method is required. Moreover, if different thesauri are to be interoperable without complicated mappings, a standard schema for thesauri i...

Outbreaks of human enterovirus 71 (EV-71) in Asia are related to high illness and death rates among children. To gain insight into the potential threat for the population of Europe, we determined the neutralizing activity in intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIg) batches and individual serum samples from donors in the Netherlands against EV-71 strains isolated in Europe and in Asia. All IVIg batches...