Contemporary multimedia, scientific and medical applications use indexing structures to access their highdimensional data. Yet, in sufficiently high-dimensional spaces, conventional tree-based access methods are eventually outperformed by simple serial scans. Vector quantization has been effectively used to index data that are mostly distributed uniformly. However, in real-world applications, c...

OBJECTIVE ADHD is common in patients with alcohol dependence, but prevalence results are inconsistent. We investigated ADHD prevalence in a complex design to avoid over- or underdiagnosing. METHOD Patients with alcohol dependence starting long-term residential treatment were included. A structured interview (Diagnostic Interview for ADHD in Adults [DIVA]) was conducted on all patients. DIVA r...

One of the objectives of the DiVA project is to explore the possibility of using XML as a format for long-term preservation. For this reason, the practical use of XML in different parts of the SYSTEM was evaluated before deciding on the design. The DiVA Document Format defined by an XML schema has been developed to describe the inter-relationships amongst the various data elements and processes...

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 ( ...