BACKGROUND RTS,S is the most advanced candidate malaria vaccine but it is only partially protective and the causes of inter-individual variation in efficacy are poorly understood. Here, we investigated whether peripheral blood monocyte-to-lymphocyte ratios (ML ratio), previously shown to correlate with clinical malaria risk, could account for differences in RTS,S efficacy among phase II trial p...

This paper presents column parallel signal processing techniques for reducing thermal and RTS noises of in-pixel source followers. Noise reduction methods of correlated multiple sampling differential averaging (CMSDA) and histogram-based RTS-noise suppression and averaging (HRNSA) are applied and their effectiveness for RTS noise reduction is demonstrated for large sampling number.

OBJECTIVE It was the aim of our study to present a case of Rubinstein Taybi syndome (RTS) associated with hepatic hemangioma. CLINICAL PRESENTATION AND INTERVENTION A 6.5-year-old boy was diagnosed with RTS. He had large areas of cutaneous capillary hemangiomas. Radiological examination revealed a hepatic hemangioma. A multidisciplinary follow-up program was commenced and hepatic ultrasound e...

The RTS=CTS reservation scheme in IEEE 802.11a Wireless LANs (WLANs) is employed to improve performance as it shortens packet collision duration and addresses the hidden station problem. An investigation has been conducted into how effective the RTS=CTS handshake is in reducing collision duration for 54 Mbit=s by extending an existing mathematical model for the particular packet overheads and d...

BACKGROUND The 2005 American Association for Respiratory Care Human Resources Survey suggested that the national demand for respiratory therapists (RTs) exceeds the supply. At the Cleveland Clinic an expected hospital expansion of 350 beds by 2008 has increased the need for RT staff. This report describes a strategy by which we developed a plan, in concert with local RT colleges, to recruit RTs...

Listeria app, isolated from 13 of 129 (10%) corn silage samples, 21 of 76 (28%) hay silage samples, and 3 of 5 (60%) grass silage samples during a previous Vermont survey were subjected to automated ribotype (RT) analysis. The 13 positive corn silage samples contained 3 Listeria monocytogenes isolated (three RTs, including one known clinical RT) and 10 L. innocua isolates (four RTs). Similarly,...

BACKGROUND Trauma scores help classify trauma patients, and assist in clinical decision-making. The Revised Trauma Score (RTS) is widely used internationally but its effectiveness as a tool for predicting outcome in paediatric trauma patients in our setting, has yet to be established, mainly owing to lack of use. The aim of this study was to determine the effectiveness of RTS as a predictor of ...

Real-Time Strategy (RTS) games provide a challenging platform to implement online reinforcement learning (RL) techniques in a real application. Computer as one player monitors opponents’ (human or other computers) strategies and then updates its own policy using RL methods. In this paper, we firstly examine the suitability of applying the online RL in various computer games. RL application depe...

The accuracy and variability of response times (RTs) collected on stock Apple Macintosh computers using USB keyboards was assessed. A photodiode detected a change in the screen's luminosity and triggered a solenoid that pressed a key on the keyboard. The RTs collected in this way were reliable, but could be as much as 100 ms too long. The standard deviation of the measured RTs varied between 2....

The current 802.11 MAC protocol uses RTS-CTS-DATA-ACK packet exchange and exponential backoffs to prevent collisions at both the sender’s side and the receiver’s side. While the protocol works well in prevention of collisions, it degrades throughput due to a significant amount of overhead produced by RTS/CTS message exchange. In addition, aggressive backoffs used in current 802.11 MAC protocol ...