Enzyme immunoassay (EIA) was used to detect antibodies to Trichomonas vaginalis in sera from Zimbabwe. The EIA showed a sensitivity of 95 and 94% when compared with vaginal swab culture among women attending a family planning clinic (FPC) and female commercial sex workers (CSW) respectively. The specificity was 85 and 77% in the two groups. Culture-negative FPC women were sub-divided into high ...

Fixed-point logic with rank (FPR) is an extension of fixed-point counting (FPC) operators for computing the a matrix over finit field. The expressive power FPR properly extends that FPC and contained in P, but it not known if containment proper. We give circuit characterization terms families symmetric circuits gates, along lines given by Anderson Dawar 2017. This requires development broad fra...

Despite the significant progress in probabilistic forecasting science last two decades, particularly quantification of predictive uncertainty (PU), most operational flood early warning systems (FEWSs) continue to be based on deterministic forecasts. Thereupon, additional work is needed demonstrate advantages using PU over enhance uptake forecasts decision-making. In this paper, a Monte-Carlo (M...

The eukaryotic cell replicates its chromosomal DNA with almost absolute fidelity in the course of every cell cycle. This accomplishment is remarkable considering that the conditions for DNA replication are rarely ideal. The replication machinery encounters a variety of obstacles on the chromosome, including damaged template DNA. In addition, a number of chromosome regions are considered to be d...

The prescribed performance robust control method for the leader/follower (L/F) formation is proposed in this paper to solve problem of spacecraft flying (SFF) full-process (FPC). objective FPC establish an ultra-close with constraint collision avoidance between two spacecraft, and then maintain configuration high-precision accuracy a period time. main contribution lies following three aspects. ...

In this paper, a novel Fabry-Perot cavity (FPC) antenna with perfect electric conductor (PEC) wall is proposed to design structurally compact and robust high-gain antenna. Generally, the FPC comprising PEC ground partially reflective dielectric surface (PRDS) required have half-wavelength height satisfy resonance condition. If magnetic (PMC) substituted for ground, of can be reduced quarter wav...

In this paper, we extend the concept of scaled Gromov hyperbolic graph, originally developed for the Thin Triangle Condition (TTC), to the computationally simplified, but less intuitive, Four-Point Condition (FPC). The original motivation was that, for a large but finite network graph to enjoy some of the typical properties to be expected in negatively curved Riemannian manifolds, the delta mea...

Abstract. We analyze an abridged version of the active-set algorithm FPC AS proposed in [18] for solving the l1-regularized problem, i.e., a weighted sum of the l1-norm ‖x‖1 and a smooth function f(x). The active set algorithm alternatively iterates between two stages. In the first “nonmonotone line search (NMLS)” stage, an iterative first-order method based on “shrinkage” is used to estimate t...

The ellipsoid method is an algorithm that solves the (weak) feasibility and linear optimization problems for convex sets by making oracle calls to their (weak) separation problem. We observe that the previously known method for showing that this reduction can be done in fixed-point logic with counting (FPC) for linear and semidefinite programs applies to any family of explicitly bounded convex ...