BACKGROUND Recent studies suggest that the protective effect of the current influenza vaccine could be influenced by vaccination in previous seasons. We estimated the combined effect of the previous and current influenza vaccines from the 2010-2011 season to the 2015-2016 season in Spain. METHODS We performed a test-negative case-control study in patients ≥9 years old. We estimated the influe...

Objective. To study whether gender influences outcome after intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH). Methods. Cohort study of 245 consecutive adults presenting to the emergency department with spontaneous ICH from January 2006 to December 2008. Patients with subarachnoid hemorrhage, extradural hemorrhage, and recurrence of hemorrhage were excluded. Results. There were no differences noted between gender...

We sketch the architecture of a sentence generation module that maps a language-neutral "deep" representation to a language-specific sentence-semantic specification, which is given to a front-end generator. Lexicalizat, ion is tlm main instrument tbr the mapl~ing step, and we examine the role of verb semantics in the process. In particular, we propose a set of rules that derive a range of verb ...

Forest Isbell,* David Tilman, Stephen Polasky and Michel Loreau Abstract Habitat destruction is driving biodiversity loss in remaining ecosystems, and ecosystem functioning and services often directly depend on biodiversity. Thus, biodiversity loss is likely creating an ecosystem service debt: a gradual loss of biodiversity-dependent benefits that people obtain from remaining fragments of natur...

SUMMARY. In a life testing experiment (or a clinical trial), for staggering entry of units (including some batch arrival models), some nonparametric testing procedures (based on a general class of rank statistics and weighted empirical processes) under progressive censoring schemes are considered, for some multiple regression model. Adjustments needed to incorporate dropouts are also discussed....

IntroductionSeasonal influenza vaccination is widely recommended for people with risk factors, especially for people who are elderly. However, influenza vaccine effectiveness (IVE) varies year after year because of the variable antigenic composition of the circulating viruses and the vaccine composition. Methods: We summarise the results of IVE and the impact of previous vaccination among subje...

We present a new framework for reasoning about points , intervals and dura t ions-Poin t Interval Dura t i on Network ( P I D N ) . The P I D N adequately handles bo th qual i ta t ive and quant i ta ive tempora l in fo rmat ion . We show that I n terval Algebra, Point Algebra, TCSP, P D N and A P D N become special cases of P I D N . The under ly ing algebraic structure of P I D N is closed un...

New strategies are needed to develop better tools to control TB, including identification of novel antigens for vaccination. Such Mtb antigens must be expressed during Mtb infection in the major target organ, the lung, and must be capable of eliciting human immune responses. Using genome-wide transcriptomics of Mtb infected lungs we developed data sets and methods to identify IVE-TB (in-vivo ex...

Abstra ct. Thi s pap er describes a connectioni st mod el of prin t-tosound transformation ("word naming" or "reading aloud" ). T he associative network it uses is based on published stu dies of oral reading, and simulat ion res ults are compare d to experiment al data in t he psy chological literature. Th e results ob ta ined are of interest for two separa te reasons. Fir st , the print-to-sou...

W e propose a n ATM traff ic shaper f o r shaping mu l tiple delay-sensit ive and delay-insensit ive VBR cell s treams s imultaneously , w i th a shaping m e c h a n i s m following the definit ion o f GCRA algorithm. B y using a feedback m e c h a n i s m between the regulator and the scheduler, t he ou tpu t s treams are strictly conforming. In order t o achieve best performance, we employ th...