The design of fusion diagnostics is essential for the physics program of future fusion devices. The goal is to maximize the information gain of a future experiment with respect to various constraints. A measure of information gain is the mutual information between the posterior and the prior distribution. The Kullback-Leibler distance is used as a utility function to calculate the expected info...

Drugs that are inexpensive to manufacture and simple to administer greatly expand the potential to help tens of millions of people who need treatment for chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection. Key program implementation challenges include identifying who would benefit from antiviral medication and ensuring long-term and consistent treatment to people who feel well. The best opportunities ar...

The progress in the information technologies has impact not only in the area of computer sciences, but also in the area of education. The system SYNTLOG is e-learning system for synthesis and diagnostics of combinational and sequential logical circuits. This system is based on modularity; every module in e-learning part consists of theory and application program for given problem. The system is...

Background Uganda Ministry of Health passed the Public Private Partnership for Health (PPPH) policy to strengthen the health system by leveraging strategic advantages of private healthcare providers [1]. The National Malaria program has gone further to develop a malaria case management strategy through a multi-stakeholder consultative process [2]. Makerere University School of Public Health (Ma...

From the psychiatry service program at the North Florida/ South Georgia Veterans Health System in Gainesville, Florida (Dr Lacy); the Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences at the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California in Los Angeles (Drs Baron, Goin, and Gross); the Department of Psychiatry at New York University in New York (Dr Slaby); and the BioBehavioral D...

In this paper we describe research in the areas of maintenance and warranty decision-making for gas turbines used in power plants. We first frame the problem within a larger context of equipment monitoring, diagnostics and maintenance. We then focus on describing and modeling economic issues related to warranty maintenance service from the perspectives of both the consumer (power plant owner) a...

An updated program for modeling simplified heart geometry and simulation of action potentials propagation is presented. The implemented model allows simulation of geometry changes as well as changes in action potentials amplitude and duration. In propagation simulation real conduction velocities can be considered. Two different pathological situations were simulated using the model. First, only...

Lisa M. McShane, Biometric Research Branch, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD Douglas G. Altman, Medical Statistics Group, Cancer Research UK, Centre for Statistics in Medicine, Wolfson College, Oxford, UK Willi Sauerbrei, Institut fuer Medizinische Biometrie und Medizinische Informatik, Universitaetsklinikum Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany Sheila E. Taube, Cancer Diagonisis Program, National...

In this initiative, the Harvard Catalyst Reactor Program invited investigators to submit innovative pilot grant applications that utilized the advanced Zeiss microscopes at the Harvard Center for Biological Imaging (HCBI), with a focus on advancing an area of clinical investigation centered on pathology. Applications were required to (1) address areas of pathology that cannot be addressed using...

The 22nd annual Pezcoller Symposium titled "RNA Biology and Cancer" was held in Trento, Italy, on June 10-12, 2010. The program of the symposium was developed by Drs. Rene Bernards, Witold Filipowicz, and David Livingston; they cochaired the meeting in cooperation with Dr. Enrico Mihich. The topics discussed included the opportunities offered by small RNA as tools for cancer drug development, t...