The laboratory diagnosis of tuberculosis usually relies on culture-based isolation of the causative Mycobacterium tuberculosis bacteria. We developed and evaluated the performance of MOD9, a new blood-free derivative of the MOD4 solid medium on which we previously reported for the isolation and culture of mycobacteria. First, inoculation of Lowenstein-Jensen medium with 21 M. tuberculosis isola...

Anomalously high K-band surface brightness fluctuations (SBF) have been reported in NGC 4489 by Pahre & Mould (1994), Jensen et al. (1996) and Jensen et al. (1998). However, these conclusions were uncertain because of relatively low signal-to-noise data. New high signal-to-noise data for NGC 4489 have been obtained at the NOAO/KPNO 2.1m and the ESO/La Silla 3.5m NTT telescopes. Adopting the I-b...

Understanding multi-dimensional mechanism design. 1 The Model Let M = {1, . . . , m} be a finite set of agents. Every agent has private information, which can be multi-dimensional. This is called his type. The space from which an agent draws his type is called his type space. Let Ti denote the type space of agent i ∈ M . We assume Ti ⊆ R n for some integer n ≥ 1. Let T m = ×mi=1Ti. Also, denote...

We will present a fixed point method for the stability theorems of functional equations of Jensen type as given by S.-M. Jung [11] and Wang Jian [10].

Integral inequalities involving many fractional integral operators are used to solve various differential equations. In the present paper, we will generalize Hermite–Jensen–Mercer-type for an h-convex function via a Caputo–Fabrizio integral. We develop some novel inequalities. also identities differentiable mapping, and these be give estimates Some familiar results recaptured as special cases o...

One of the classical results of the regularity theory of convex functions is the theorem of F. Bernstein and G. Doetsch [1] which states that if a real valued Jensen-convex function defined on an open interval I is bounded from above on a subinterval of I then it is continuous. According to a related result by W. Sierpiński [3], the Lebesgue measurability of a Jensen-convex function implies its...

Abstract. Artificial impervious surface area (ISA) documents the human footprint. Accurate, timely, and detailed ISA datasets are therefore essential for global climate change studies urban planning. However, due to lack of sufficient training samples operational mapping methods, at a 10 m resolution still lacking. To this end, we proposed method leveraging multi-source geospatial data. Based o...

Photon mapping, an algorithm developed by Henrik Wann Jensen [1], is a more realistic method of rendering a scene in computer graphics compared to ray and path tracing. Unlike ray tracing, photon mapping first emits lots of photons from light sources in a scene and then uses the photon map to calculate the radiance of each pixel in the rendered scene. Previous work in the area include a GPU pho...