In Germany, the national routine childhood immunization schedule comprises 12 vaccinations. Primary immunizations should be completed by 24 mo of age. However, nationwide monitoring of vaccination coverage (VC) is performed only at school entry. We utilized health insurance claims data covering ~85% of the total population with the objectives to (1) assess VC of all recommended childhood vaccin...

OBJECTIVE Neurosurgical resources are concentrated in tertiary referral centers, whereas emergencies identified from district general hospitals are traditionally referred by telephone consultation (TC). Recent advances in communication technology offer the alternative options of teleradiology (TR) and video consultation (VC). This study aimed to determine the differences among these three consu...

thirty five monoconidial isolates of the fungal culture collection pyricularia grisea were examined, to identify the vegetative compatibility groups and characterize the genetic diversity of isolates as through rep-pcr genomic fingerprinting. the isolates were collected from ricefields during 1997-1999. genetic diversity of p. grisea isolates was studied as based on dna fingerprinting through r...

This paper provides a systematic review of emerging control techniques used for railway virtual coupling (VC) studies. Train motion models are first reviewed, including model formulations and force elements involved. Control objectives typical design constraints then elaborated. Next, existing VC surveyed classified into five groups: consensus-based control, prediction sliding mode machine lear...

In this paper we examine the potential bene ts of dedicated backup route(s) to provide survivability for ATM group communications. Specifically we examine the feasibility of providing survivability using working multipoint routes with disjoint dedicated backup multipoint routes where the multipoint routes are setup using either Virtual Rings, shared multicast trees, or VC Mesh groups. We introd...

The traditional LO creation process involves a number of specialized personnel such as the subject-matter expert, instructional design expert, visual communication expert, graphic designers and animators. While each team member brings in his or her own expertise into the process, the creation of high quality, usable LOs relies on frequent face-to-face interaction between the team members. Among...

Recently, utilization of biological adsorbents plays an important role in the removal toxic dyes such as Eriochrome Black T (EBT) azo-dye they are considered being produced from natural renewable source, easy availability, low cost, and environmentally friendly. In this study, vermicompost (VC) was utilized to remove aqueous solution along ultrasonic ultrasonic-assisted adsorption. The paramete...

This book presents the achievements in research of a special underactuated system called mobile wheeled inverted pendulum (MWIP) over recent years. Taking dynamic modeling, control, and simulation as mainline, this first introduces particularity, control challenges, applications MWIP system. The Lagrange function is adopted to model dynamics two-dimensional three-dimensional systems. Based on d...