The British Thoracic Society (BTS) guideline for the management of adults with community acquired pneumonia (CAP) published in 2009 was compared with the 2014 National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) Pneumonia Guideline. Of the 36 BTS recommendations that overlapped with NICE recommendations, no major differences were found in 31, including those covering key aspects of CAP mana...

Bäcklund transformations (BTs) for ordinary differential equations (ODEs), and in particular for hierarchies of ODEs, are a topic of great current interest. Here we give an improved method of constructing BTs for hierarchies of ODEs. This approach is then applied to fourth Painlevé (PIV ) hierarchies recently found by the same authors [Publ. Res. Inst. Math. Sci. (Kyoto) 37 327–347 (2001)]. We ...

In this paper, we study the hand-off performance of a wireless system with heterogeneous technologies called iCAR (Integrated Cellular and Ad hoc Relaying). In iCAR, hand-offs can occur not only from a Base Transceiver Station (BTS) to another BTS, but also from a BTS to a so-called Ad hoc Relaying Station (ARS) in the form of relaying, as well as from an ARS back to a BTS. The latter two types...

The base transceiver station (BTS)'s continuous power supply has been the subject of a lot research. majority research focuses on increasing usage effectiveness or adding solar battery systems for BTS stations. Due to geographical conditions in North Vietnam, cell efficiency is rather poor and investment cost quite high, therefore stations are still relying mostly generator backup systems. This...

Urine cultures represent one of the most commonly submitted specimens to a microbiology laboratory. In an attempt to manage effectively this type of specimen, Bac-T-Screen (BTS), nitrate and leukoestrase test were performed on all clean catch urine specimens sent for culture. Three hundred and four specimens were screened by these methods. The BTS, by itself, had the highest sensitivity, and sp...

The relative stability of base transceiver station (BTS) clocks in cellular networks is studied. It is demonstrated that although BTS clocks are not perfectly synchronized to GPS, they are relatively stable with respect to each other, permitting exclusive navigation with cellular signals in the absence of global navigation satellite system (GNSS) signals. A navigation observable is developed le...