purpose: to ascertain whether the use of nested-pcr (nested polymerase chain reaction) technique leads to more rapid and accurate diagnosis of bacterial endophthalmitis. methods: the aqueous humor and vitreous samples of 24 eyes of 24 patients with bacterial endophthalmitis were evaluated by microscopy, diagnostic aerobic culture, and nested- pcr to detect the infectious agent. results: aerobic...

Abstract The nested distance builds on the Wasserstein to quantify difference of stochastic processes, including also evolution information modelled by filtrations. Sinkhorn divergence is a relaxation distance, which can be computed considerably faster. For this reason we employ and take advantage related (fixed point) iteration algorithm. Furthermore, investigate transition entropy throughout ...

Background and Aims: Canine distemper (CD) is a deadly infectious disease of Canidae family. CD is a multi-systemic viral disease and is specified by wide range of clinical symptoms. The manifestations are not always indicative of CD, therefore a laboratory confirmation is necessary for suspected cases. Materials and Methods: Different clinical specimens of 19 CD suspected unvaccinated dogs wer...

We provide the first behavioral characterization of nested logit, a foundational and widely applied discrete-choice model, through introduction nonparametric version logit that we call “nested stochastic choice” (NSC). NSC is characterized by single axiom weakens independence irrelevant alternatives on basis revealed similarity to allow for effect. Nested an additional menu-independence axiom. ...

a nested polymerase chain reaction (pcr) assay with two pairs of primers was applied for the detection of m. tuberculosis complex dna in specimens of 51 patients. of these, 31 clinically diagnosed patients (group i) recruited from july 1996 to june 1997 were given antituherculous chemotherapy from one to six months with standard daily regimen (isaniazid, 5 mg/kg; rifampin, 10 mg/kg; pyrazinamit...