The control of Trypanosoma brucei gambiense human African trypanosomiasis (HAT) is compromised by low sensitivity of the routinely used parasitologic confirmation tests. More sensitive alternatives, such as mini-anion exchange centrifugation technique (mAECT) or capillary tube centrifugation (CTC), are more expensive. We used formal decision analysis to assess the cost-effectiveness of alternat...

Infrared spectroscopy shows that perfluoro tert-butyl alcohol (TBF) forms hydrogen bonded hetero dimers with hydrogenated alcohols (Methanol, 1-butanol and Tert-butanol) in the gas phase at room temperature. DFT calculations confirm these findings providing structures, stabilization energies allow a first analysis of νOH spectra by considering only diagonal term anharmonicity vibration. The bro...

Introduction: An accurate assessment of the Tumor Blood Flow (TBF) can become crucial in deciding the best management for breast cancer patients. Earlier studies have demonstrated the feasibility of quantifying blood flow in human breast tumors using prebolus DCE-MRI time courses covering a limited time window at high temporal resolution, combined with deconvolution analysis [1, 2]. Alternative...

Abstract Predictive maintenance (PdM) cannot only avoid economic losses caused by improper but also maximize the operation reliability of product. It has become core management. As an important issue in PdM, time between failures (TBF) prediction can realize early detection and products. The information is main basis for TBF prediction. Therefore, purpose this paper to establish intelligent mod...

In this work, a tied braced frame (TBF) was developed to achieve uniform inelastic deformation in an eccentrically (EBF) by connecting links across the entire height with tie members. Herein, TBF design method is proposed, considering new lateral force distribution pattern. To better evaluate seismic performance, and verify advantages of TBF, nonlinear time-history analysis fragility were condu...

Butterfly-shaped tetrabenzo[a,c,g,i]fluorene (TBF)-based molecules (1 and 2) were designed, synthesized and well characterized using various spectroscopic techniques. The single crystal X-ray structure of 1 shows the presence of intermolecular 3-D π-π stacking interaction and unprecedented "cold crystallization" in polycyclic aromatic molecules. We report for the first time, the "bottom-up" sel...

Anaplasma phagocytophilum is a Gram-negative, obligate intracellular tick-transmitted bacterium that replicates in neutrophils. It causes tick-borne fever (TBF) in sheep and cattle, but also elicits febrile disease in humans as well as in other domestic animals such as dogs, horses, and cats. Although increasingly recognized in Europe, the first laboratory-confirmed case of TBF in cattle from G...

INTRODUCTION Solid tumors are known to have an abnormal vasculature that limits the distribution of chemotherapy. We have recently shown that tumor vessel modulation by low-dose photodynamic therapy (L-PDT) could improve the uptake of macromolecular chemotherapeutic agents such as liposomal doxorubicin (Liporubicin) administered subsequently. However, how this occurs is unknown. Convection, the...

OF THE DISSERTATION Forwarding and Positioning Problems in Ad Hoc Networks by Dragoş Ştefan Niculescu Dissertation Director: Badri Nath Availability of node positions in ad hoc networks is of a twofold interest. First, it enables the use of position centric methods of addressing and routing. Second, node positions are a goal in themselves for applications such as tracking, sensing and reporting...

BACKGROUND The total energy cost of pregnancy is largely due to an elevated basal metabolic rate (BMR). Large variations in the BMR response to pregnancy have been reported, but the factors associated with this variability are incompletely known. OBJECTIVE The objective was to identify factors associated with variability in the BMR response to pregnancy. DESIGN In 22 healthy women, BMR, bod...