Aim To compare metabolic control and complications in people with type 2 diabetes in Nauru and the Solomon Islands before and after a project intervention. Methods This follow-up study compared metabolic control and complications in a cohort of 216 people with diabetes (81 from Nauru and 135 from the Solomon Islands) at baseline and 15 months following a project intervention (upgrading and eq...

Reed-Solomon codes are a class of non-binary cyclic codes which have strong burst and erasure error correction capabilities. Their current uses include deep-space communications, compact disc recordings, cellular communications, and digital broadcast[1]. Their popularity stems in part from the existence of encoding and decoding algorithms that are simple to implement in hardware. In addition to...

To determine the molecular genetic relationship between Melanesian strains of human T-lymphotropic virus type I (HTLV-I) and cosmopolitan prototype HTLV-I, we amplified by PCR, then cloned, and sequenced a 522-base-pair region of the HTLV-I env gene in DNA extracted from uncultured (fresh) and cultured peripheral blood mononuclear cells obtained from six seropositive Melanesian Papua New Guinea...

From: TM Synchronization and Channel Coding is used to protect the transfer frames against telemetry channel noise‐induced errors. Reference [3] describes the CCSDS Recommended Standard for TM Synchronization and Channel Coding, including specification of a convolutional code, a Reed‐ Solomon block‐oriented code, a concatenated coding system consisting of a convolutional inner code and a Reed‐S...

Reed-Solomon codes are a class of maximum distance separable error correcting codes with known fast error correction algorithms. They have been widely used to assure data integrity for stored data on compact discs, DVDs, and in RAID storage systems, for digital communications channels such as DSL internet connections, and for deep space communications on the Voyager mission. The recent explosio...

Anopheles farauti is the primary malaria vector throughout the coastal regions of the Southwest Pacific. A shift in peak biting time from late to early in the night occurred following widespread indoor residue spraying of dichlorodiphenyltrichloro-ethane (DDT) and has persisted in some island populations despite the intervention ending decades ago. We used mitochondrial cytochrome oxidase I (CO...

Abstract. Determining deep holes is an important topic in decoding Reed-Solomon codes. Cheng and Murray, Li and Wan, Wu and Hong investigated the error distance of generalized Reed-Solomon codes. Recently, Zhang and Wan explored the deep holes of projective Reed-Solomon codes. Let l ≥ 1 be an integer and a1, . . . , al be arbitrarily given l distinct elements of the finite field Fq of q element...