An advanced clock event suppression algorithm for high-speed logic simulation is described. A new signal value "Cn" and a "current clock (CC)", which indicates the current status of clock signals, has been introduced to realize this algorithm. This algorithm suppresses about 60% of the total events, and eliminates 40% of CPU time. No overhead is needed to incorporate this algorithm using hardwa...

Epidemiological investigations on Fasciola hepatica fasciolasis were carried out from July 2004 to June 2005 in the Gafsa oases (Tunisia) after the detection of a human case. Three habitats were studied: one in El Gsar and two in Ain Soltan. The prevalence of human infection was 6.6%. The presence of the parasite was detected through serology in 14.3% of cattle, 35% of sheep and 68.4% of goats....

Velvet pads have been evaluated in an experimental, laboratory model, simulating intraoperative sampling of Staphylococcus epidermis, Escherichia coli and Bacteroides fragilis. After sampling, the pad was placed in a transport medium and kept in an anaerobic atmosphere, before being shaken and rinsed, followed by anaerobic and aerobic culture. This technique permitted quantitatively high recove...

SOLiD DNA sequences are typically analyzed using a reference genome, while they are not recommended for de novo assembly of genomes or transcriptomes. This is mainly due to the difficulty in translating the SOLiD color-space data into normal base-space sequences. In fact, the nature of color-space is such that any misinterpreted color leads to a chain of further translation errors, producing to...

BACKGROUND Understanding the experience of people who stutter, both in and out treatment, will lead to improved outcomes. AIM To investigate how stuttering affects the quality of life of children and adolescents who stutter. METHOD The Overall Assessment of the Speaker's Experience of Stuttering--School-Age (OASES-S) was used to assess the impact of stuttering and the Fluency Profile Protoc...

Case-based approaches are employed within a multitude of application areas one of which is the prediction of dynamic behaviour. Given a situation the possible development after a time span shall be determined. If only a small set of heterogenously structured cases describing observations at a variety of time points is given to start with, as it is the case when experimental medical studies shal...

mosquitoes is well known. As Hoffman and Miller comment, ‘We suggest a combination of directed wind and volatile repellent might be developed as a mosquito deterrent strategy for the backyard setting’ [3]. Indeed, the combination of DEET and permethrin in a coconut base (Mosbar) as a malaria control measure looks promising (M. Rowlands et al., unpublished). Volatile oils from plants can serve a...