A dot immunobinding assay that uses inactivated antigen for the detection of rabies viral antibodies was compared with the rapid fluorescent focus inhibition test. Results of testing pre- and postvaccination sera from humans (n = 33) and canines (n = 22) were identical for both tests. Endpoint titers of positive sera also were approximately the same by both methods. When a mouse monoclonal anti...

We find an optimal Sobolev-type space on R all of whose functions admit a trace on subspaces of R of given dimension. A corresponding trace embedding theorem with sharp range is established.

Let s(n) be the threshold for which each directed path of order smaller than s ( n ) is extendible from one of its endpoints in some tournament T,. It is shown that s(n) is asymptotic to 3n/4, with an error term at most 3 for infinitely many n. There are six tournaments with s (n) = n.

The basis of potentiometry is the Nernst equation, which relates the concentration of electroactive species at the surface of an electrode (C) to the potential of that electrode (E); that is, for the reaction O + e = R where E is the formal redox potential of the electron transfer reaction. In a potentiometry experiment, the open-circuit potential (i.e., there is no measurable current through t...

background: this study aimed to compare intermittent intravenous (iv) pantoprazole and ranitidine for control of gastric acid secretion and the possible prevention of upper gastrointestinal bleeding (ugib) in critical care patients. methods: this was a randomized, double blind clinical trial study of iv pantoprazole (40 mg every12 hour) or intermittent iv ranitidine (50 mg bolus every 8 hour) i...

UNLABELLED We describe the application of a novel HIV confirmatory testing algorithm to determine the primary efficacy endpoint in a large Phase III microbicide trial. 9385 women were enrolled between 2005 and 2009. Of these women, 537 (6%) had at least one positive HIV rapid test after enrolment. This triggered the use of the algorithm which made use of archived serum and Buffy Coat samples. T...

Effective management of both endangered native and invasive alien crayfishes requires knowledge about distribution, monitoring existing early detection newly established populations. Complementary to traditional survey methods, eDNA sampling has recently emerged as a highly sensitive non-invasive method monitor crayfish To advance the use tool for we used twofold approach: 1) designed novel set...

Genetically modified (GM) rice KMD1, TT51-1, and KF6 are three of the most well known transgenic Bt rice lines in China. A rapid and sensitive molecular assay for risk assessment of GM rice is needed. Polymerase chain reaction (PCR), currently the most common method for detecting genetically modified organisms, requires temperature cycling and relatively complex procedures. Here we developed a ...

The task of endpointing is to determine when the user has finished speaking. This is important for interactive speech applications such as voice search and Google Home. In this paper, we propose a GLDNN-based (grid long short-term memory deep neural network) endpointer model and show that it provides significant improvements over a state-of-the-art CLDNN (convolutional, long short-term memory, ...