BACKGROUND The objective of the study was to explore the reach of an ongoing hepatitis B vaccination programme in terms of awareness of the programme among drug users (DUs), vaccination uptake and compliance, as well as to investigate reasons for non-participation. METHODS Ethnographic mapping and targeted sampling were used to recruit 309 DUs in three regions in the Netherlands. Results were...

In this paper, utilization of clustering algorithms for data fusion in decision level is proposed. The results of automatic isolated word recognition, which are derived from speech spectrograph and Linear Predictive Coding (LPC) analysis, are combined with each other by using fuzzy clustering algorithms, especially fuzzy k-means and fuzzy vector quantization. Experimental results show that the ...

Three strains of facultatively anaerobic thermotolerant and moderately halophilic bacteria were isolated from two Jordanian hot spring locations. The novel Bacillus strains were short rods, Gram-positive, motile and spore formers. The strains were capable of anaerobic (but not aerobic) growth at 63C, moderately halophilic, able to grow at NaCl concentration range of 12 15 % and at temperatures ...

Abstract There is a need to comprehend real-world problems that are marked by ambiguity and inflexibility. By taking into account the indeterminacies inconsistencies, DUS transformation has been taken Neutrosophic Weibull distribution DUS-Neutrosophic proposed. The probability density function unimodal decreasing in nature. Several statistical properties have studied. parameters of proposed est...