139 children with bacteriological or histological proof of active tuberculosis were given the Mantoux tuberculin test while they were inpatients at Port Moresby General Hospital. Only half (70) of the children had positive results (induration of at least 5 mm). Of the 35 children under 2 years, 25 (71 %) showed no reaction whatsoever. Malnutrition, assessed by weight for age, did not appear to ...

1 We examine phrase alignment in a hybrid connectionist framework. We describe the architecture and the learning algorithm of our approach. Simulations have been carried out to demonstrate the feasibility of this approach using two corpora. Although the results of our approach are still at an early stage, we found that a hybrid approach to phrase alignment has the potential to provide good resu...

This study analyzes the innovative orientation of the Croatian entrepreneurs. Innovative orientation is represented by the perceived extent to which an entrepreneur’s product or service or technology is new, and no other businesses offer the same product. The sample is extracted from the GEM Croatia Adult Population Survey dataset for the years 2003-2013. We apply descriptive statistics, t-test...

Developing software for stand-alone environments requires the availability of an interactive test support at a very early stage of work. But the rough conditions at bare hardware forces the test support to have to be content with only a minimal assistance by its environment. This of course limits its functionality. Nevertheless, primitive command line-oriented interaction with the developer sho...

OBJECTIVE To investigate and compare two ALS staging systems, King's clinical staging and Milano-Torino (MiToS) functional staging, using data from the LiCALS phase III clinical trial (EudraCT 2008-006891-31). METHODS Disease stage was derived retrospectively for each system from the ALS Functional Rating Scale-Revised subscores using standard methods. The two staging methods were then compar...

Most empirical studies on the Spanish wage curve have ignored the possible spatial interaction effects between the regions. This paper reconsiders the Spanish wage curve using more recent data than previous studies and taking into account the role of regional spillovers. From a methodological perspective, we apply the two-step procedure proposed by Bell et al (2000) to estimate a dynamic wage c...

The vibro-acoustic behavior of systems and components in modern vehicles play an increasingly important role in the development process of high quality products in automotive industry. In order to characterize the numerous mechanical, electrical and mechatronic systems, many of which embody significant sources of structure-borne sound and vibration, advanced measurement techniques are required....