Reduced major axis approach for correcting GPM/GMI radiometric biases to coincide with radiative transfer simulation" (2016). Publications, Agencies and Staff of the U.S.

BACKGROUND Invasive pulmonary aspergillosis (IPA) is the most common invasive fungal disease in immunocompromised patients, and it has a 30 % mortality rate despite appropriate antifungal therapy. This retrospective study was performed to determine risk factors for mortality in immunocompromised children with IPA. METHODS Medical records of 45 probable/proven IPA cases diagnosed in children w...

A non-compartment pharmacokinetic model was used to evaluate the potential of antimalarial drugs to influence malaria transmission using the ratio of sex specific gametocyte half-lives male:femalethe gametocyte maleness index (GMI), and the ratio of the sex specific area inscribed by the plot of gametocyte sex density versus time curves AUCmg:AUCfgthe gametocyte maleness load index (GMLI). Data...

The classical information-theoretic measures such as the entropy and the mutual information (MI) are widely applicable to many areas in science and engineering. Csiszar generalized the entropy and the MI by using the convex functions. Recently, we proposed the grid occupancy (GO) and the quasientropy (QE) as measures of independence. The QE explicitly includes a convex function in its definitio...

Aerosol-cloud interactions in the NASA GMI: model development and indirect forcing assessments N. Meskhidze, R. E. P. Sotiropoulou, A. Nenes, J. Kouatchou, B. Das, and J. M. Rodriguez School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA Schools of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA NASA Goddard Space Flig...

OBJECTIVE Planning of breast radiation for patients with breast conserving surgery often relies on clinical markers such as scars. Lately, surgical clips have been used to identify the tumor location. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the geographic miss index (GMI) and the normal tissue index (NTI) for the electron boost in breast cancer treatment plans with and without surgical clips....

Patients with a history of mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) and objective cognitive deficits frequently experience word finding difficulties in normal conversation. We sought to improve our understanding of this phenomenon by determining if the scores on standardized cognitive testing are correlated with measures of brain activity evoked in a word retrieval task (confrontational picture namin...

We present a generalization of Java’s Remote Method Invocation model (RMI) providing an efficient group communication mechanism for parallel programming. Our Group Method Invocation model (GMI) allows methods to be invoked either on a single object or on a group of objects, the latter possibly with personalized parameters. Likewise, result values and exceptions can be returned normally (as with...

Amorphous magnetic microwires can be suitable for a variety of technological applications due to their excellent softness and giant magnetoimpedance (GMI) effect. Several approaches optimization soft properties GMI effect covered with an insulating, flexible, biocompatible glass coating tunable are overviewed. The high properties, achieved even in as-prepared Co-rich vanishing magnetostriction ...