Currently, there are three Hib conjugate vaccines licensed in Canada for use in infants 2 months of age and older. The Bureau of Biologics recently approved two new vaccine products that allow single-needle administration of (a) polyribose ribitol phosphate-tetanus toxoid (PRP-T) with diphtheria toxoid-pertussis vaccine-tetanus toxoid-inactivated poliovirus vaccine (DPT-IPV), and (b) oligosacch...

Course Description: This course is derived from the textbook by Andrew A. Guccione, PT, PhD, DPT, FAPTA, Rita A. Wong, PT, EdD, and Dale Avers, PT, DPT, PhD ©2012. Geriatric Physical Therapy offers a comprehensive presentation of geriatric physical therapy science and practice. Thoroughly revised and updated, editors Andrew Guccione, Rita Wong, and Dale Avers and their contributors provide curr...

The paper compares three portfolio optimization models. Modern portfolio theory (MPT) is a short-horizon volatility model. The relevant time horizon is the sampling interval. MPT is myopic and implies that investors are not concerned with long-term variance or mean-reversion. Intertemporal portfolio choice is a multiple period model that revises portfolios continuously in response to relevant s...

Abstract Global warming has altered the energy budget and water cycle processes of land–atmosphere system, which resulted in significant effects on precipitation extremes. Previous studies have identified a hook structure between near-surface temperature extremes, extremes increase with rises decline thereafter. However, underlying physical mechanisms this association remain poorly understood. ...

With the emergence of large pre-trained vison-language model like CLIP, transferable representations can be adapted to a wide range downstream tasks via prompt tuning. Prompt tuning tries probe beneficial information for from general knowledge stored in model. A recently proposed method named Context Optimization (CoOp) introduces set learnable vectors as text language side. However, alone only...

Background House dust mites (HDM), including Dermatophagoides pteronyssinus (Dpt) and Dermatophagoides farinae (Df), are one of the commonest aeroallergens worldwide eliciting allergic manifestations [1]. Allergenic phenomenon is tightly associated both with the mites themselves and with ligands derived from mite-associated bacterial/fungal products. Some Dpt allergens belong of lipid-binding p...

Magnetic field effects provide a convenient and specific probe of singlet exciton fission within optoelectronic devices. Here, we demonstrate that this tool may also be applied to screen potential fission material candidates in solution. We characterize the phenomenon in diphenyl tetracene (DPT), which shows strong fluorescence modulation and the expected field dependence in its transient decay...

Methods Retrospective analysis of clinical files and results of skin testing and DPT (drug provocation tests) from January 2011 to December 2013. All patients were studied according to standardized diagnostic procedures of ENDA/EAACI: serum sIgE (specific IgE) (ImmunoCAP, ThermoFisher) to penicillin G/V, amoxicillin and ampicillin; skin prick and IDT (intradermal tests) to PPL/MD (DAP, Diater),...

1. Immunization of rabbits with Type III pneumococci is effective in producing active immunity against infection with a virulent strain of the homologous organism. 2. Immunization of rabbits with Type I or II pneumococci, and with R forms derived from any of the fixed types, is equally effective in producing active immunity against Type III infection. 3. Immunization of rabbits with nucleoprote...