During 2003-2006, diphtheria rates in Hyderabad, India, were higher among persons 5-19 years of age, women, and Muslims than among other groups. Vaccine was efficacious among those who received >/=4 doses. The proportion of the population receiving boosters was low, especially among Muslims. We recommend increasing booster dose coverage.

Lily pollen was developed to express HBsAg by Agrobacterium-mediated transformation. A double prime-boost strategy combining parenteral and oral HBsAg boosters was found to increase antibody titer levels 10-fold, as compared to a single process of priming and boosting. Lily pollen may prove a tool for oral vaccine development.

We study boosting in the filtering setting, where the booster draws examples from an oracle instead of using a fixed training set and so may train efficiently on very large datasets. Our algorithm FilterBoost, which is based on a logistic regression technique proposed by Collins et al. (2002), requires fewer assumptions to achieve bounds equivalent to or better than previous work. Our proofs de...

Wireless devices such as smart meters, trackers, and sensors need connections at multiple frequency bands with low power consumption, thus requiring multiband efficient antenna systems. At the same time, antennas should be small to easily fit in scarce space existing wireless devices. Small, multiband, operation is addressed here non-resonant elements, featuring volumes less than 90 mm3 for ope...

BACKGROUND Systematic reviews have identified a range of brief interventions which increase physical activity in previously sedentary people. A randomised controlled trial is needed to assess whether providing motivational interviewing, three months after giving initial advice, sustains physical activity levels in those who recently became physically active. This paper reports the results of an...

Despite the existing extensive research on stance markers such as hedges, boosters, and self-mention in academic writing, few studies, however, examined co-occurrence of these to help authors project their identities writing. In this study, we examine how with boosters hedges are used by writers different groups manifest authorial presence what functions they realize Two self-compiled corpora w...