conclusions specimen adequacy and diagnosis of inflammatory reaction were better in liquid base smear and convention smear, respectively. results specimen adequacy and smear quality were significantly better in liquid base sampling (p = 0.03); presence of benign cellular changes was not different between the two groups (p = 0.389). diagnosis of bacterial vaginosis was significantly better with ...

A general method has been developed to measure the formation and removal of DNA adducts in defined sequences of mammalian genomes. Adducted genomic DNA is digested with an appropriate restriction enzyme, treated with Escherichia coli UvrABC excision nuclease (ABC excinuclease), subjected to alkaline gel electrophoresis, and probed for specific sequences by Southern hybridization. The ABC excinu...

Methods of discrete optimization play an important role in the area of control and optimization of industrial processes. Due to the fact that most discrete optimization problems are NP-complete, a lot of specialized methods have been developed for them, which differ with respect to algorithmic properties, see e.g [5, 7]. For this reason a user is not always able to select the algorithm that fit...

In context awareness applications the locations of people, devices or objects are often required. Ultrasound technology enables high resolution position measurements indoors. A disadvantage of state-of-the-art ultrasonic systems is that several base stations are required to estimate a 3D position. Since fewer base stations leads to lower cost and easier setup, a novel method is presented that r...

In this study, we consider a point-to-point motion of a flexible arm mounted on a flexible base, composed of a slide rail and helical extension springs, and then propose a trajectory planning method for reducing residual vibrations. The Lagrangian approach, in conjunction with the assumed mode method, is applied to derive the equations of motion of the system. In order to accurately construct t...

In this paper we present the BPAL platform aimed at the management of Business Process Knowledge Bases. It includes a logic-based language for BP modeling and a reasoning mechanism providing support to BP designers in several services. Firstly, the definition of a BP meta-model (MM) consisting of a set of rules that guide the BP designers in their work. Secondly, given a BP, the BPAL platform a...

This paper deals with an absolute mobile robot selflocalization algorithm in an artificial indoor environment. Until now, localization methods based on conical omnidirectional vision sensors uniquely used radial segments from vertical environment landmarks projection. The main motivation of this work is to show that primitives other than radial straight lines are usable with a conical vision se...