This paper reports an experiment in 640 Indonesian villages on three approaches to target the poor: proxy-means tests (PMT), where assets are used to predict consumption; community targeting, where villagers rank everyone from richest to poorest; and a hybrid. Defining poverty based on PPP$2 per-capita consumption, community targeting and the hybrid perform somewhat worse in identifying the poo...

VERITAS is an array of four identical telescopes designed for detecting and measuring astrophysical gamma rays with energies in excess of 100 GeV. Each telescope uses a 12 m diameter reflector to collect Cherenkov light from air showers initiated by incident gamma rays and direct it onto a ‘camera’ comprising 499 photomultiplier tubes read out by flash ADCs. We describe here calibration methods...

Machine Transliteration is to transcribe a word written in a script with approximate phonetic equivalence in another language. It is useful for machine translation, cross-lingual information retrieval, multilingual text and speech processing. Punjabi Machine Transliteration (PMT) is a special case of machine transliteration and is a process of converting a word from Shahmukhi (based on Arabic s...

background: skin cancer is a serious public health problem in the world. its prevalence in many countries has been increased in recent years. this study aimed to assess the effects of a theory-based educational intervention to promote skin cancer preventive behaviors (scpbs) among rural farmers in chalderan county, iran.   methods: this was a quasi-randomized controlled field trial study conduc...

We encountered a 9-year-old Japanese girl with Alagille syndrome. Her scintigraphic examinations of the liver were performed at the ages of 16 months and 9 years. 99mTc-PMT, a hepatobiliary imaging agent, was distributed homogeneously in the liver at the younger age, but unevenly produced an area of focally increased uptake in the medial segment of the liver surrounded by peripheral atrophy at ...

A 74-year-old man with a dual-chamber implantable cardioverter defibrillator implanted 3 years before experienced multiple ventricular tachycardias (VTs). All episodes were initiated by pacemaker-mediated tachycardia (PMT) that was either stopped by atrial undersensing or the tachycardia termination algorithm of the device. After the termination of PMT, two rapid ventricular paced beats, the fi...

Objectives Oncogenic osteomalacia is a paraneoplastic syndrome in which the tumor secretes a peptide-like hormone, fibroblast growth factor, resulting in urinary loss of phosphates. Methods We present the case of a 50-year-old woman with a benign phosphaturic mesenchymal tumor (PMT) involving the ethmoid sinus with obstruction of the ostiomeatal complex causing unilateral nasal airway obstructi...

The MicroBooNE detector, to be located on axis in the Booster Neutrino Beamline (BNB) at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab), consists of two main components: a large liquid argon time projection chamber (LArTPC), and a light collection system. Thirty 8inch diameter Hamamatsu R5912-02mod cryogenic photomultiplier tubes (PMTs) will detect the scintillation light generated in the...

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