Laboratory confirmation of the clinical diagnosis of chancroid requires the isolation of Haemophilus ducreyi. Enriched gonococcal (GcHbS) and Mueller-Hinton agar (MHHb) both support the growth of most strains of H. ducreyi. In this study we compared the isolation rate of H. ducreyi on GcHbs and MHHb media in 111 men with genital ulcer disease. A second culture was obtained in 84 men at 48 hr in...

Tools that are able to detect unverified information posted on social media during a news event can help to avoid the spread of rumours that turn out to be false. In this paper we compare a novel approach using Conditional Random Fields that learns from the sequential dynamics of social media posts with the current state-of-the-art rumour detection system, as well as other baselines. In contras...

According to David Blair, 1.3 billion Google Android devices are shipped to customers each day. In addition, one-third of all new televisions are now connected to the Internet. During the next quarter of 2013, sales of mobile devices (smartphones, Tablets) are expected to eclipse those of personal computers for Internet connectivity. The Internet age of (almost) “everywhere” arrived quickly and...

Sub-block oriented media processor architecture is presented. A block oriented instruction set extension is proposed to process and transfer 1D or 2D data blocks. Two programmable processors are employed to perform sequential processing and block oriented processing respectively. We evaluated the performance potential of the media processor architecture using a special FPGA card, and an image F...

Complex network studies span a large variety of applications including linguistic networks. To investigate the differences in book and social media texts in terms of linguistic typology, we constructed both sequential and sentence collocation networks of book, Facebook and Twitter texts with undirected and weighted edges. The comparisons are performed using the basic parameters like average deg...

The last three decades have seen considerable progress in the development of culture media for ART and infertility treatment. Basic research on the metabolism of mammalian preimplantation embryos demonstrated the specific needs in the evolving stage of the embryo growing in vitro. Two different philosophies led to two different culture strategies for human preimplantation embryos: the 'back-to-...