We confirmed Borrelia miyamotoi infection in 7 patients who had contracted an illness while near La Crosse, Wisconsin, USA, an area where Ixodes scapularis ticks are endemic. B. miyamatoi infection should now be considered among differential diagnoses for patients from the midwestern United States who have signs and symptoms suggestive of tickborne illness.

Advanced sequencing techniques make large genome data available at an unprecedented speed and reduced cost. Genome data sharing has the potential to facilitate significant medical breakthroughs. However, privacy concerns have impeded efficient genome data sharing. In this paper, we present a novel approach for disseminating genomic data while satisfying differential privacy. The proposed algori...

The differential evolution algorithm has been widely applied on unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) path planning. At present, four random tuning parameters exist for differential evolution algorithm, namely, population size, differential weight, crossover, and generation number. These tuning parameters are required, together with user setting on path and computational cost weightage. However, the op...

BACKGROUND Evidence on whether healthy diets are more expensive than current diets is mixed due to lack of robust methodology. The aim of this study was to develop a novel methodology to model the cost differential between healthy and current diets and apply it in New Zealand. METHODS Prices of common foods were collected from 15 supermarkets, 15 fruit/vegetable stores and from the Food Price...

This paper presents a new model of ordinary elliptic curves with fast arithmetic over field of characteristic two. In addition, we propose two isomorphism maps between new curves and Weierstrass curves. This paper proposes new explicit addition law for new binary curves and prove the addition law corresponds to the usual addition law on Weierstrass curves. This paper also presents fast unified ...

Proof is offered that s approximately ig for all forms of selection where fitness is a nondecreasing function of a normally distributed phenotype (called fitness potential); s is selection coefficient, i is standard selection differential, and g is standard differential effect of a locus genotype.Evidence is presented that the cost of selection does not limit genic polymorphism; that truncation...

The paper is concerned with the approximation of value function zero-sum differential game minimal cost, i.e., payoff functional determined by minimization some quantity along trajectory solutions continuous-time stochastic games stopping governed one player. Notice that auxiliary described Isaacs–Bellman equation additional inequality constraints. a parabolic PDE for case and it takes form sys...