BACKGROUND The intensity categories, or thresholds, currently used for Trichuris trichiura (ie. epg intensities of 1-999 (light); 1,000-9,999 epg (moderate), and ≥ 10,000 epg (heavy)) were developed in the 1980s, when there were little epidemiological data available on dose-response relationships. This study was undertaken to determine a threshold for T. trichiura-associated anemia in pregnant ...

Quantitative fecal egg counts represented as the number of eggs per gram of feces (EPG) are generally a reliable parameter to estimate the worm burden of intestinal and hepatic parasitoses. Although Haplorchis taichui (Digenea: Heterophyidae) is one of the most common minute human intestinal flukes, little is known about the relationship between EPG and the actual worm burden in patients or the...

This study had two aims. The first aim was to use electropalatography (EPG) to investigate the articulatory characteristics of /s/ produced by five Cantonese-speaking children with repaired cleft palate. The EPG stimuli were analyzed, and categorized into seven different EPG patterns. Variability among these EPG patterns was found in these aspects: a) the presence and absence of a groove, b) th...

Adaptive power allocation problem where it minimizes the energy-per-good bit (EPG) of a system employing a multiple-input multiple-output maximum ratio combining (MIMO-MRC) scheme is formulated. Closed-form results are obtained for the optimum transmit power and minimum EPG as a function of the number of antennas employed and the quality of the channel. The cumulative distribution function (CDF...

The traditional method for recording electrophysiological signals from the C. elegans pharynx is called an electropharyngeogram (EPG). It provides an experimental platform for defining gene function, the impact of genetic mutations, and the effects of drugs on the nematode neural network. To date, the EPG has been a low-throughput assay. This paper describes a new microfluidic device that can s...

We propose expected policy gradients (EPG), which unify stochastic policy gradients (SPG) and deterministic policy gradients (DPG) for reinforcement learning. Inspired by expected sarsa, EPG integrates (or sums) across actions when estimating the gradient, instead of relying only on the action in the sampled trajectory. For continuous action spaces, we first derive a practical result for Gaussi...

A correlation of Trichuris trichiura infection and fecal occult blood detection was conducted in 146 primary schoolchildren in Narathiwat Province, Thailand. The Kato-Katz thick smear method was used for determining egg counts and stated as eggs per gram of feces (epg). The number of T. trichiura eggs was categorized as class I (1-499 epg), class 11 (500-4,999 epg), and class III (> 5,000 epg),...

BACKGROUND Schistosomiasis and soil-transmitted helminthiasis (STH) are among the neglected tropical diseases in Africa. A national control program for these diseases was initiated in Uganda during March 2003. Annual treatment with praziquantel and albendazole was given to schoolchildren in endemic areas and to adults in selected communities where local prevalence of Schistosoma mansoni in scho...

BACKGROUND Pleurotus giganteus (Berk. Karunarathna and K.D. Hyde), has been used as a culinary mushroom and is known to have medicinal properties but its potential as an anti-inflammatory agent to mitigate inflammation triggered diseases is untapped. In this study, the molecular mechanism underlying the protective effect of ethanol extract of P. giganteus (EPG) against lipopolysaccharide (LPS) ...