Rabies is a virtually 100% fatal acute viral encephalitis caused by an RNA virus belonging to family Rhabdoviridae and genus Lyssavirus. The virus can infect all warm blooded animals. The disease is transmitted to humans by the bite, lick or scratch of an infected animal. More than 99% of all human rabies deaths occur in the developing world. It is preventable with timely and proper usage of mo...

Maturational differences in brain responsiveness to rewards have been implicated in the increased rates of injury and death in adolescents from behavior-related causes. However, much of this morbidity is related to drug intoxication or other externalizing behaviors, and may be concentrated in a subset of adolescents who are at psychosocial or neurobiological risk. To examine whether individual ...

OBJECTIVES This study aims to determine the risk factors predicting rehospitalization by comparing three models and selecting the most successful model. METHODS In order to predict the risk of rehospitalization within 28 days after discharge, 11 951 inpatients were recruited into this study between January and December 2009. Predictive models were constructed with three methods, logistic regr...

The tracking of the white light (central) fringe in a broadband optical/IR interferometer, allows the possibility of long coherent integrations of fringe visibility. Fringe tracking involves the determination of absolute OPD o sets (not just narrowband phase) and either real-time correction of the interferometer's delay lines, or determination of the estimated OPD time series to be applied to t...

The recent introduction of chromeless-phase lithography (CPL) has provided lithographers with a powerful wavefront engineering tool for patterning at k1 values below 0.3. Reliable image formation at such extreme k1 requires a wellcharacterized CPL photomask. However, the limitations of available optical inspection tools have made the test and measurement of CPL photomasks a difficult task. In t...

Studies of the effects of sulfide poison on H sorption into Pd can be conducted without the complications of processes involved in cathodic H2 evolution since UPD H can be generated as the initial chemisorbed source of H below the H2 reversible potential, unlike the situation at e.g. Fe, mildsteel, Ni, Ti, etc. By means of a previously developed kinetic fitting procedure, the effects of S and H...

-In deregulated environment there exist a number of buyers and sellers. An auction market is one of the competitive electricity market models with an explicit set of rules that determine resource allocations and prices on the basis of bids from market participants. The paper presents the application of the genetic algorithm (GA) to solve the Optimal Power Dispatch (OPD) problem for a multi-node...

BACKGROUND The Operationalized Psychodynamic Diagnosis (OPD-2) is internationally established as one of the major instruments available for clinical diagnosis and scientific research, being frequently used as an auxiliary tool in the selection of therapeutic interventions. AIMS 1) To describe the methodological aspects of the adaptation of the OPD-2 into Portuguese (Portugal and Brazil). 2) T...

PURPOSE To compare higher order aberrations measured with the NIDEK OPD-Scan and AMO WaveScan. METHODS Third- to sixth-order higher order aberrations were measured in 1072 eyes using the OPD-Scan and WaveScan. Means, standard deviations, confidence intervals, limits of agreement, and intraclass correlation coefficients (ICC) were calculated. RESULTS Aberrations of greatest magnitude with th...

A number of problems in computer vision (e.g., image segmentation, gender classification of faces, etc) can be formulated as graph-structured discrete labelling problems, where the goal is to predict labels (e.g. foreground/background, male/female) for a set of variables (e.g. pixels, faces in an image, etc) that have some known underlying structure (e.g., neighbouring pixels in an image often ...