The discriminating variable (DIVA) test and the selectivity ratio (SR) plot are developed as quantitative tools for revealing the variables in spectral or chromatographic profiles discriminating best between two groups of samples. The SR plot is visually similar to a spectrum or a chromatogram, but with the most intense regions corresponding to the most discriminating variables. Thus, the varia...

Vaccination for the control of bovine tuberculosis (bTB) in cattle is not currently used within any international control program, and is illegal within the EU. Candidate vaccines, based upon Mycobacterium bovis bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) all interfere with the action of the tuberculin skin test, which is used to determine if animals, herds and countries are officially bTB-free. New diagnos...

Software systems that can automatically adapt to changes in their environments – also know as Dynamically Adaptive Systems (DAS) – play increasingly important roles in society’s everyday life. The growing demand for such systems, which range from simple mobile interactive gaming applications to complex crisis management systems, requires specific development methodologies that encompass the ful...

Since 2003, triple reassortant (TR) swine H3N2 influenza viruses containing gene segments from human, avian, and swine origins have been detected in the U.S. turkey populations. The initial outbreak that occurred involved birds that were vaccinated with the currently available H3 swine- and avian-origin influenza vaccines. Antigenically, all turkey swine-lineage TR H3N2 isolates are closely rel...

Abstract. In this paper we prove a regularity result for very weak solutions of equations of the type − divA(x, u,Du) = B(x, u,Du), where A, B grow in the gradient like tp−1 and B(x, u,Du) is not in divergence form. Namely we prove that a very weak solution u ∈ W 1,r of our equation belongs to W 1,p. We also prove global higher integrability for a very weak solution for the Dirichlet problem ( ...

The DiVA system, originally developed at Uppsala University, has evolved out of a scholarly repository and publishing system solely used by one university into a system used and further developed in collaboration with seventeen universities in Sweden, Norway and Denmark. The system consists of several modules which are entirely built on XML and Java technologies. This modularisation facilitates...

The present study tested two hypotheses about apraxia of speech (AOS), framed in the DIVA model (Guenther, Ghosh, & Tourville, 2006). The DIVA model assumes that speech targets are regions in auditory space, and combines two mechanisms to reach those targets: feedback control and feedforward control. The Feedforward System Deficit (FF) hypothesis states that feedforward control is impaired in A...

This paper describes DIVA, a decision-theoretic agent for recommending movies that contains a number of novel features. DIVA represents user preferences using pairwise comparisons among items, rather than numeric ratings. It uses a novel similarity measure based on the concept of the probability of conflict between two orderings of ̄ items. The system has a rich representation of preference, dis...