BACKGROUND Phenotypic, culture-based methods for drug susceptibility testing (DST) of Mycobacterium tuberculosis are relatively simple and may be particularly appropriate for resource-limited settings where tuberculosis (TB) is most prevalent. However, these methods can be slow and generate significant amounts of infectious waste. Low-cost digital imaging and a unique porous ceramic support for...

[1] Large-scale crustal deformation in the Levant is mainly related to the DST and the CFS. The former is an active left lateral transform, bounding the Arabian plate and the Sinai sub-plate, and the latter branches out of the former and separates the Sinai sub-plate into two tectonic domains. In this study we obtain the velocities of 33 permanent GPS stations and 145 survey stations that were ...

Whole-genome sequencing (WGS) has the potential to accelerate drug-susceptibility testing (DST) to design appropriate regimens for drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB). Several recently developed automated software tools promise to standardize the analysis and interpretation of WGS data. We assessed five tools (CASTB, KvarQ, Mykrobe Predictor TB, PhyResSE, and TBProfiler) with regards to DST and ph...

Proactive nutrition screening is an effective public health strategy for identifying and targeting individuals who could benefit from making dietary improvements for primary and secondary prevention of disease. The Dietary Screening Tool (DST) was developed and validated to assess nutritional risk among rural older adults. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the utility and validity of th...

DST/NRF Centre of Excellence in Strong M School of Chemistry, University of the Wi South Africa. E-mail: [email protected] DST/NRF Centre of Excellence in Strong M Institute, School of Physics, University Johannesburg, South Africa Materials Science and Engineering, Rutgers New Jersey 08854, USA † Current address: Renewable Energy and of Namibia, 13 Storch Street, Private bag Cite this: Na...

This paper proposes a new blind adaptive channel shortening approach for multi-carrier systems. The performance of the discrete Fourier transform-DMT (DFT-DMT) system is investigated with the proposed DST-DMT system over the standard carrier serving area (CSA) loop1. Enhanced bit rates demonstrated and less complexity also involved by the simulation of the DST-DMT system.

BACKGROUND Real-Time PCR-High Resolution Melting (qPCR-HRM) analysis has been recently described for rapid drug susceptibility testing (DST) of Mycobacterium leprae. The purpose of the current study was to further evaluate the validity, reliability, and accuracy of this assay for M. leprae DST in clinical specimens. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS The specificity and sensitivity for determinin...

The history of Daylight Saving Time (DST) has been long and controversial. Throughout its implementation during World Wars I and II, the oil embargo of the 1970s, consistent practice today, and recent extensions, the primary rationale for DST has always been to promote energy conservation. Nevertheless, there is surprisingly little evidence that DST actually saves energy. This paper takes advan...

Random graph and tree are two topologies used to build overlay networks. These overlay networks may be used by large scale discovery mechanisms to run search algorithms. The Distributed Spanning Tree (DST) is another topology that may be used as overlay. In a DST, every computer is a leaf. DST’s non-leaf nodes are sets of computers instead of computers. Thus, it allows the use of tree traversal...

Abstract Intense magnetic storms pose a systemic threat to the electric power grid. In this study we examined solar/interplanetary causes of such storms, their peak theoretical and observed intensities, occurrence frequency. Using coronal mass ejection (CME) solar wind data, selected 18 intense from 1996 2021 with disturbance storm time (Dst) index less than – 200 nT analyzed events conditions ...