The NSLS-II Injector System Diagnostics will provide instrumentation in the linac, Booster, Transfer Lines and Beam Dumps for measuring key beam parameters. These instruments will be adequate for staged commissioning of NSLS-II injectors, and will allow sufficient beam diagnostics for tune-up and top-up operations. This paper summarizes the status of the NSLS-II injector system diagnostics, foc...

Optical trapping of single biological cells has become an established technique for controlling and studying fundamental behavior of single cells with their environment without having "many-body" interference. The development of such an instrument for optical diagnostics (including Raman and fluorescence for molecular diagnostics) via laser spectroscopy with either the "trapping" beam or second...

background identification of novel pathogenic bacteria always has a crucial role in clinical microbiology to defeat uncontrolled diseases. objectives sample preparation platform has been developed for rapid and simple detection of infectious organisms from the point of care diagnostics and molecular manipulation by using three novel genomic dna isolation protocols. materials and methods most of...

yersinia pestis which is the causative agent of pneumonic plague and distributed in all continents has led to many deaths during the history. because of its high mortality rate, it must be diagnosed and treated at the earliest time post infection and therefore, rapid diagnostic tests are required. in the present study, we cloned the coding sequence of f1 capsular antigen of the bacteria in the ...

Realization of prevention diagnostics reaches unsatisfactory level in Poland. Average coverage ratio for cytology is 22.14% and 42.77% for mammography. Analogical ratios for Mazovia region reach the level of 21.47% for cytology and 40.61% for mammography. At the same time Centrum Medyczno-Diagnostyczne (CMD) achieved significantly higher coverage for its primary care population i.e. 56.48% for ...

A prerequisite to widespread deployment of condition-based maintenance (CBM) systems in industry is autonomous yet effective diagnostics and prognostics algorithms. The concept of ‘autonomy’ in the context of diagnostics and prognostics is usually based on unsupervised clustering techniques. This paper employs an unsupervised competitive learning algorithm to perform hidden Markov model (HMM) b...

Background and Purpose: Orthopedic examination techniques of the musculoskeletal system contribute to the successful diagnostics of temporomandibular disorders (TMD). The purpose of this study is to determine the validity of TMD clinical diagnostics by comparing the findings of manual functional analysis (MFA) and the results of MRI of temporomandibular joint (TMJ). The diagnostic significance ...

BACKGROUND A delay is evident between the development of new policies on TB diagnostics and their implementation at country level. The Stop TB Partnership would benefit from information from national TB program (NTP) managers on progress towards implementation of new recommendations as well as the opportunities and challenges encountered in the process. METHODS AND FINDINGS To solicit informa...

Two widely-used seasonal adjustment programs are the U.S. Census Bureau's X-12-ARIMA and the SEATS program for ARIMA-model-based signal extraction written by Agustin Maravall. In previous studies with SEATS and X-12-ARIMA, we found some series where the adjustment from SEATS had smaller revisions than the adjustment from X-12-ARIMA (Hood, Ashley, and Findley, 2000). Based on this previous work,...