BACKGROUND Respiratory viruses often have been studied in children with respiratory tract infection (RTI), but less knowledge exists about viruses in asymptomatic children. We have studied the occurrence of a broad panel of respiratory viruses in apparently healthy children attending day care, taking into account the influence of possible confounding factors, such as age, clinical signs of resp...

OBJECTIVE To assess the feasibility of semiautomated linking of road traffic injury (RTI) cases in different data sets in low- and middle-income countries. METHODS The study population consisted of RTI cases in the Dominican Republic in 2010 and were identified in police and health insurance data sets. After duplicates were removed and fatality reporting was corrected by using forensic data, ...

Due to the fundamental nature of all-terrain exploration, autonomous rovers are confronted with unknown environments. This is especially apparent regarding to soil interactions, as the nature of the soil is typically unknown. This work aims at establishing a framework from which the rover can learn from its interaction with the terrains encountered and shows the importance of such a method. We ...

PURPOSE This study compared the effects of resistance training (RT) and RT with instability (RTI) on neuromuscular and total training volume (TTV) outcomes obtained as part of the Instability Resistance Training Trial in Parkinson's disease. It also used a linear multiple regression (forward stepwise method) to identify the contribution of neuromuscular outcomes to previously published improvem...

Recently, mice have been extensively used to investigate the pathogenesis of pulmonary disease because appropriate murine models, including transgenic mice, are being increasingly developed. However, little information about the lung mechanics of mice is currently available. We questioned whether lung tissue behavior and the coupling between dissipative and elastic processes, hysteresivity (eta...

Amendments to laws are necessary to keep up with the changing needs of the society. Such a process is largely manual, and takes feedbacks from the society for the introduction of an amendment. The Right to information (RTI) Act 2005 gives Indian citizens the opportunity to interact with the government. The present paper discusses how analysis of the RTI system can assist in mining feedbacks tha...

Returnable transport items (RTIs) are key elements for enabling a smooth flow of goods throughout supply chains. Despite their importance, RTIs can be prone to high loss and breakage rates. Today’s RTI management processes are rather inefficient and are based on estimates about when, where and how RTIs are utilised. This limited visibility inevitably causes the involved parties to feel less res...

Background Real-time interactive (RTI) MRI parameter manipulation during the scan [1] may potentially address challenges imposed by respiratory motion during a free-breathing cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) acquisition. In this study, we propose an operator-guided processing that allows manipulation of navigator gating parameters in real-time. This approach was evaluated in healthy volu...

Under High Level Architecture (HLA), distributed simulation services are provided by middleware known as the Run-Time Infrastructure (RTI). Existing RTI implementations, despite being similar in function and performance, do not interoperate with one another as they each use a different proprietary wire protocol. Appreciating how these protocols converge and diverge is a necessary first step tow...

BACKGROUND Existing surveillance systems for sexually transmitted diseases (STD) and reproductive tract infections (RTI) are important but often ineffective, as they tend to omit cases diagnosed by private-practice doctors METHODS During a 15-day study period, 277 private-practice doctors and all public-practice doctors of all the eight local Social Hygiene Clinics (SHC) in Hong Kong filled o...