Most studies of the cost-effectiveness of pneumococcal vaccination show very favorable cost-effectiveness ratios for preventing pneumococcal pneumonia, but they make the controversial assumption that vaccination is equally effective in preventing bacteremic (BPP) and nonbacteremic (NBPP) pneumonia. However, the results of our study showed that, compared with preventing BPP alone, the cost-effec...

Five sites (urban, suburban, new township, industrial, and rural) were selected and sampled for total suspended particulates (TSP) using high-volume samplers. The TSP were then analysed for their lead and cadmium content in 3 extraction fractions. While the most polluted sites for atmospheric lead and cadmium were different, namely the BBP (Pudu Fire Station) urban and UPM (Universiti Pertanian...

• Innovative work by Kabanets and Impagliazzo [KI03] shows that, in some cases, providing lower bounds on arithmetic circuit size can yield consequences about Boolean complexity classes. For instance, one of the most important problems in BPP that is not known to be in P is Arithmetic Circuit Identity Testing (ACIT), the problem of determining if two arithmetic circuits compute the same functio...

We currently do not have a very good unconditional bound on the power of BPP — in particular, it could be that BPP = NEXP. Perhaps surprisingly, especially in light of the many randomized algorithms known, the current conjecture is that BPP is not more powerful than P. We will return to this point later in the semester when we talk about derandomization. What (unconditional) upper bounds can we...

In phylogenetic inference, the support of an estimated phylogenetic tree topology and its interior branches is usually measured either with non-parametric bootstrap support (BS) values or with Bayesian posterior probabilities (BPPs). Extensive empirical evidence indicates that BPP values are systematically larger than BS when measured on the same data set, but there are no theoretical results s...

Jančar has recently shown that bisimilarity on Basic Parallel Processes (BPP) can be decided in polynomial space (presented at LiCS 2003). In this paper are summarized two results which use general techniques from Jančar’s paper. First result by Kot and Jančar (presented at AVIS 2004) shows that bisimilarity on normed basic parallel processes can be decided in O(n). The second result by Kot and...

Results from twin, family, and adoption studies all suggest that general intelligence is highly heritable. Several studies have shown lower premorbid intelligence in individuals before the onset of both mood disorders and psychosis, as well as in children and adolescents at genetic high risk for developing schizophrenia. Based on these findings, we aim to investigate if the association between ...

1President, 2Researcher 1Egyptian Society of Oral Implantology, Alexandria, Egypt; Faculty of Dentistry, BPP University, London, United Kingdom 2Department of Periodontology, Oral Medicine, Oral Diagnosis and Oral Radiology, Faculty of Dentistry, Tanta University, Egypt Corresponding Author: Ahmed Halim Ayoub, Sporting Omar Lotfy Street, 178 Second Floor, Alexandria, Egypt, Phone: +201222205513...

Jančar has in 2003 shown that bisimilarity on Basic Parallel Processes (BPP) can be decided in polynomial space. Bisimilarity is studied on various subclasses of BPP as well. We present summary of known complexity bounds of some such bisimilarity problems. Moreover is here shown that deciding regularity of a BPP is PSPACE-complete. So far this problem was only known to be PSPACE-hard.

The physicochemical characteristics of fresh noodles made with blends of low-protein wheat flour and barley byproduct (BBP, 250 μm) were investigated. The crude protein contents (PC) of flour from Goso and Backjoong cultivars were 7.91% and 7.67%, respectively. PC and β-glucan contents from the BBP were 14.10% and 3.11%, respectively, which were higher than those in wheat flour. The water-holdi...