Listeria app, isolated from 13 of 129 (10%) corn silage samples, 21 of 76 (28%) hay silage samples, and 3 of 5 (60%) grass silage samples during a previous Vermont survey were subjected to automated ribotype (RT) analysis. The 13 positive corn silage samples contained 3 Listeria monocytogenes isolated (three RTs, including one known clinical RT) and 10 L. innocua isolates (four RTs). Similarly,...

BACKGROUND Trauma scores help classify trauma patients, and assist in clinical decision-making. The Revised Trauma Score (RTS) is widely used internationally but its effectiveness as a tool for predicting outcome in paediatric trauma patients in our setting, has yet to be established, mainly owing to lack of use. The aim of this study was to determine the effectiveness of RTS as a predictor of ...

Real-Time Strategy (RTS) games provide a challenging platform to implement online reinforcement learning (RL) techniques in a real application. Computer as one player monitors opponents’ (human or other computers) strategies and then updates its own policy using RL methods. In this paper, we firstly examine the suitability of applying the online RL in various computer games. RL application depe...

The accuracy and variability of response times (RTs) collected on stock Apple Macintosh computers using USB keyboards was assessed. A photodiode detected a change in the screen's luminosity and triggered a solenoid that pressed a key on the keyboard. The RTs collected in this way were reliable, but could be as much as 100 ms too long. The standard deviation of the measured RTs varied between 2....

The current 802.11 MAC protocol uses RTS-CTS-DATA-ACK packet exchange and exponential backoffs to prevent collisions at both the sender’s side and the receiver’s side. While the protocol works well in prevention of collisions, it degrades throughput due to a significant amount of overhead produced by RTS/CTS message exchange. In addition, aggressive backoffs used in current 802.11 MAC protocol ...

In Real-Time Strategy (RTS) games, players develop an army in real time, then attempt to take out one or more opponents. Despite the existence of basic similarities among the many di erent RTS games, engines of these games are often built ad hoc, and code re-use among di erent titles is minimal. We created a design pattern called Resource Entity Action (REA) that abstracts the basic interaction...

BACKGROUND Midportion Achilles tendinopathy (AT) can cause long-term absence from sports participation, and shows high recurrence rates. It is important that the decision to return to sport (RTS) is made carefully, based on sharply delimited criteria. Lack of a well-defined definition and criteria hampers the decision to RTS among athletes with AT, and impedes comparison of RTS rates between di...

We analyse a large database of psychometrically derived financial risk tolerance scores (RTS) and associated demographic information. We find that people’s selfassessed risk tolerance generally accords with RTS. Further we find that gender, age, number of dependents, marital status, income and wealth are significantly related to the RTS. Notably, the relationship between age and risk tolerance ...

BACKGROUND Demand for respiratory care services and staffing levels of respiratory therapists (RTs) is expected to increase over the next several years. Hence, RT job satisfaction will be a critical factor in determining recruitment and retention of RTs. Determinants of RT job satisfaction measures have received little attention in the literature. This study examines the use of respiratory care...