The increasing numbers of people with type 2 diabetes is a worldwide concern. It presents an added challenge in sub-Saharan Africa, where diabetes must compete for resources with communicable diseases. A scarcity of financial resources and appropriate staff mean that many people with type 2 diabetes have complications and that those with type 1 diabetes have an extremely short life-expectancy, ...

In this paper, we describe an automatic synthesis procedure that distributes synchronous programs on a set of desynchronized processing elements. Our distribution procedure consists of three steps: First, we translate the given synchronous program to synchronous guarded actions. Second, we analyze their data dependencies and represent them in a so-called action dependency graph (ADG). Third, th...

African Journal of Psychiatry • September 2011 318 presence of glucocorticoid receptors (GR) in the brain which mediate feed back action of steroids.8 • That in catatonic patients, as Northoff hypothesizes, there is modulation of cortical and sub cortical structures due to various conditions. The resultant hyperdopaminergic mesolimbic system may attempt a restitutive down regulation of dopamine...

We demonstrate population inversion and sub-Poissonian excitation statistics of N two-level atoms in the context of collective resonance fluorescence. This occurs within photonic band gap and other confined photonic systems that exhibit sharp features in the optical density of states. When the deviation in the photon density of states between the Mollow spectral components is considerable, the ...

* Communication No . 1821 from Central Drug Research Institute, Lucknow, India Abstract-Pharmacological profile of a new sympathomimetic agent, compound 70-352, is reported herein. This compound was found to directly stimulate a-ad renergic receptors in the cat, guinea pig, rabbit and rat. Activity was similar to that of noradrenaline (NA) but it was only 0.032% as potent as NA on isolated rat ...

Previous studies showed that sub-MIC levels of β-lactam antibiotics stimulate biofilm formation in most methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) strains. Here, we investigated this process by measuring the effects of sub-MIC amoxicillin on biofilm formation by the epidemic community-associated MRSA strain USA300. We found that sub-MIC amoxicillin increased the ability of USA300 cells ...

This study investigated the effects of hearing impairment and auditory vs. auditory-visual perception of lexical tone by native Thai hearing impaired listeners: Hearing Impaired with Hearing Aids (HI+HA), Hearing Impaired without Hearing Aids (HIHA), and Normal Hearing (NH). Adults’ discrimination of the 5 Thai tones was investigated in auditory-visual (AV), auditoryonly (AO), and visual-only (...

Speech recognition in reverberant environments is still a challenge problem. In this paper, we first investigated the reverberation effect on subband temporal envelopes by using the modulation transfer function (MTF). Based on the investigation, we proposed an algorithm which normalizes the subband temporal modulation spectrum (TMS) to reduce the diffusion effect of the reverberation. During th...

In the subband coding of images, directionality of image features has thus far been exploited very little. The proposed subband coding scheme utilizes orientation of local image features to avoid the highly objectionable Gibbs-like phenomena observed at reconstructed image edges with conventional subband schemes at low bit rates, At comparable bit rates, the subjective image quality obtained by...