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OBJECTIVE Multiple-dose metronidazole oral therapy is currently the reference treatment for bacterial vaginosis (BV). This double-blind, double-dummy, noninferiority study compared the efficacy of secnidazole, another nitroimidazole with pharmacokinetics allowing a single dose regimen, to this standard treatment. METHODS A total of 577 patients were randomized to receive metronidazole (500 mg...

James Archibald (Brigham Young University, USA) Riccardo Bellazzi (Università di Pavia, Italy) YangQuan Chen (Utah State University, USA Ruey-Kei Chiu (Fu Jen Catholic University, Taiwan) Dewar Finlay (University of Ulster, Northern Ireland) Reed M. Gardner (University of Utah, USA) Tianzi Jiang (Institute of Automation Chinese Academy of Science, China) Eamonn Keogh (University of California R...

OBJECTIVE To determine if douching with Water Works device for 1 month can (1) lower or eliminate perceived vaginal odor by subject; (2) have any effects on vaginal ecosystem. METHODS Ten women with perceived vaginal odor with or without discharge, douched every day for 4 weeks in an open-label, nonrandomized pilot study. Primary outcome measures included perceived vaginal odor by subject, la...

Y. J. Liu, B. Chen, E. R. Li, J. Y. Wang, A. Marcelli, S. W. Wilkins, H. Ming, Y. C. Tian, K. A. Nugent,* P. P. Zhu, and Z. Y. Wu Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing 100049, China School of Physics, The University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia Department of Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China INFN-Laboratori Nazi...

This article examines exchange rate-based stabilization in an economy that has been badly destroyed by war or other calamities. The article does this in the context of post-civil war Lebanon. Both Iraq and Afghanistan are prime candidates for such a policy. This article first demonstrates the validity of the theory and empirical regularities (initial boom followed by an economic contraction) in...

We propose a new parallel Branch and Bound algorithm for the Quadratic Assignment Problem, which is a Combinatorial Optimization problem known to be very hard to solve exactly. An original method to distribute work to processors using the notion of Feeding Tree is presented. When adequately used, it allows to reduce memory contention and load unbalance. Therefore, a linear speed-up in the numbe...