Creating robust software requires quantitative measurement in addition to careful specification and implementation. The Ballista software robustness testing service provides exception handling measurements for a variety of application domains. This thesis describes Ballista testing of the High Level Architecture Run-Time Infrastructure (HLA RTI), a general-purpose distributed simulation backpla...

BACKGROUND Road traffic injuries (RTI) are on increase in developing countries. Health care facilities are poorly equipped to provide the needed services. OBJECTIVE Determine access and quality of care for RTI casualties in Kenya. DESIGN Cross-sectional survey SETTING 53 large and medium size private, faith-based and public hospitals. PARTICIPANTS In-patient road traffic crash casualtie...

The final session of the National Research Center on Learning Disabilities (NRCLD) Responsiveness-to-Intervention (RTI) Symposium, "What are alternative models to LD identification other than RTI?" included four papers that discussed concerns over the exclusive reliance on an RTI approach to learning disability identification, considerations for analyzing proposed LD identification models, and ...

Radio Tomographic Imaging (RTI) is an emerging technology that uses received signal strength measurements to image the attenuation of objects within a wireless network area. RTI is by nature an ill-posed inverse problem, therefore, regularization techniques must be utilized to obtain accurate images. This paper discusses some common regularization techniques, including Tikhonov, truncated singu...

UNLABELLED Respiratory tract infections (RTI), especially those caused by Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV), are of central concern in high-risk preterm infant care. Prevention programs including new and costly interventions should be evaluated in terms of effectiveness and impact. OBJECTIVES To evaluate feasibility and results of a National Health Ministry pilot program for severe RTI preven...

Background – Reproductive tract infection (RTI) represents a major public health problem in developing countries.The consequences of RTI’s are several and may be severe in some cases. Objectives –To find out the prevalence of symptoms of RTI among the married women of 21-65 years, To identify clinical and cytological abnormalities among the symptomatic women, To find out association between soc...

We investigate the efficacy of a multisectoral road safety campaign initiated at Luang Namtha Provincial Hospital (LNPH), North-Laos. Road safety days (RSD) with helmet promotion were organised prior to the Lao and International New Year 2007. Motorbike helmet protectiveness was demonstrated by dropping peeled versus unpeeled coconuts from 6-m high sticks simulating city speed-limit (40 km/h). ...

Drugs that target the dopamine transporter (DAT) have been proposed as pharmacotherapies to treat cocaine abuse. Accordingly, it is paramount to understand pharmacological interactions between cocaine and DAT inhibitors. The present study characterized acute interactions between cocaine and several DAT inhibitors (RTI-177, FECNT, RTI-112) that differed in selectivity for monoamine transporters ...

On December 3, 2004, President Bush signed into law the Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act (IDEA, 2004). The revised law is different from the previous version in at least one important respect. Whereas practitioners were previously encouraged to use IQ–achievement discrepancy to identify children with learning disabilities (LD), they now may use “Response to Intervention,”...