BACKGROUND Telaprevir (TVR) has been approved for response-guided-therapy (RGT) of chronic hepatitis C (HCV) genotype-1-infection in treatment-naïve and -experienced patients. In RGT-regimens patients that did not achieve extended rapid-virological-response (eRVR) within the first 4-12 weeks undergo treatment for 48-weeks, whereas in fixed-length-treatment (FLT) patients are treated for a fixed...

This paper investigates the relationship between e-governance and workflow systems which are seen as a tool for improving government processes. The study is based on a real case at the 'Centre Régional d'Investissement' (CRI) of Marrakech, Morocco. The CRI is a government institution entrusted to coordinate various investment projects at the regional level. This paper presents th...

The universal criterion for ultrafast vortex-core switching between the up- and down-core bistates in soft magnetic nanodots is investigated by micromagnetic simulations along with vortex-core switching that occurs whenever the velocity of vortex-core motion reaches its critical velocity, upsilon cri = (1.66 +/- 0.18) gamma mean square root of Aex (e.g., upsilon cri = 330 +/- 37 m/s for Permall...

This study exhibited the correlated color temperature (CCT)- and color-rendering index (CRI)-tuning behavior of light emission from white light-emitting diodes (WLEDs) using three-dimensional non-close-packed (3D NCP) colloidal photonic crystals (CPhCs). The CCT of approximately 5300 K (characteristic of cold WLEDs) of white light propagated through the NCP CPhCs dropped to 3000 K (characterist...

A fuzzy control system which is a typical system utilizing fuzzy model is mainly using the Max-Min CRI (Compositional Rule of Inference) method by Zadeh and Mamdani for fuzzy inference. But the Max-Min CRI method suffers from drawbacks including: error-prone weighting strategy, inefficient compositional rule of inference, and subjective formulation of membership functions. Because of these prob...

The detailed analysis of 411 strains of coagulase-negative staphylococci (CoNS) obtained from 40 neutropenic hemato-oncologic patients (61 Hickman catheter episodes) on intensive chemotherapy is described. By random amplification of polymorphic DNA (RAPD) analysis, a total of 88 different genotypes were detected: 51 in air samples and 30 in skin cultures prior to insertion, 12 in blood cultures...