BACKGROUND The clinical response of patients with severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) to a combination of lopinavir/ritonavir and ribavirin was examined after establishing the in vitro antiviral susceptibility of the SARS associated coronavirus to a panel of antiviral agents. METHODS The in vitro susceptibility of the prototype of SARS associated coronavirus to a panel of nucleoside anal...

This paper uses micro data from four OECD countries (the United States, Spain, Italy, and the Netherlands), to assess the determinants of household debt holding and to investigate whether or not credit constraints are important for household debt holding. We extend the existing literature in important ways. First, we present comparative evidence for four countries at the micro level, where we r...

This paper examines a number of issues encountered when using standard health accounts data to forecast national health expenditures. In particular, it focuses on measurement issues, model specifications, and a comparison of performance indicators based on commonly used health accounts data from OECD. It assesses the performance of alternative forecasting methods based on three criteria — accur...

This paper proposes a new test for cross-sectional dependence in …xed e¤ects panel data models. It is well known that ignoring cross-sectional dependence leads to incorrect statistical inference. In the panel data literature, attempts to account for cross-sectional dependence include factor models and spatial correlation. In most cases, strong assumptions on the covariance matrix are imposed. A...

Solar energy consumption is a systematic study used to review the design of facilities, services, and equipment in an organization against specifications solar panel. The panel analysis work that should be done at beginning energy. This way, potential changes can highlighted before they affect budget schedule. proposed model provides IOT-based smart control by using photovoltaic micro grid. IOT...

This paper describes boundary element method (BEM), experimental and optimization studies conducted to understand the potential of expansion tube coupled micro-perforated cylindrical panel (MPCP) enhance acoustic attenuation for in-duct noise control issues. Due complex structure MPCP correct prediction attenuation, BEM is adopted on basis PLM Simcenter 3D software compute sound transmission lo...

We present in this paper the findings of a study on the role of macroadaptation in conversational intelligent tutoring. Macro-adaptivity refers to a system’s capability to select appropriate instructional tasks for the learner to work on. Micro-adaptivity refers to a system’s capability to adapt its scaffolding while the learner is working on a particular task. We compared an intelligent tutori...