background and objective: molecular epidemiological studies have shown that certain genotypes of mycobacterium tuberculosis (mtb) are over-represented in limited geographical regions, suggesting of evolution of certain genotypes with increasing virulence and pathogenicity. beijing strain of mtb was initially described by its potential to cause outbreaks worldwide and its association with drug r...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE Molecular epidemiological studies have shown that certain genotypes of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) are over-represented in limited geographical regions, suggesting of evolution of certain genotypes with increasing virulence and pathogenicity. Beijing strain of MTB was initially described by its potential to cause outbreaks worldwide and its association with drug re...

The purpose of this study is to approximate the stream function and temperature distribution of the MHD flow in a laminar liquid film from a horizontal stretching surface. In this paper DTM-Padé method was used which is a combination of differential transform method DTM and Padé approximant. The DTM solutions are only valid for small values of independent variables. Comparison between the solut...

Dynamic traffic management (DTM) measures are potentially powerful measures to not only improve network efficiency, but also to reduce externalities of traffic (e.g. emissions of substances, noise and safety). In current practice the deployment of DTM measures (or DTM-strategies) focuses on improving efficiency on a local level. Further the assessment of DTM is concerned with a number of predef...

The paper describes a number of methods for fast DTM generation, processing and merging implemented in the new powerful PC-based photogrammetric system Z-Space, which is specially optimized for TK-350 imagery. The particularity of DTM processing for TK-350 imagery consists in large amount of DTM points; it is usually equal to tens millions. The developed DTM generation method uses terrain and i...

BACKGROUND A national pharmacy benefits management company implemented a rheumatoid arthritis (RA) disease therapy management (DTM) program as an enhanced offering to patients receiving specialty pharmacy services. The program was designed to improve medication adherence, maximize therapeutic outcomes, and enhance physical functioning and health-related quality of life (HRQOL) by empowering pat...

The differential transform method (DTM) is an analytical and numerical method for solving a wide variety of differential equations and usually gets the solution in a series form. In this paper, we propose a reliable new algorithm of DTM, namely multi-step DTM, which will increase the interval of convergence for the series solution. The multi-step DTM is treated as an algorithm in a sequence of ...

In the analysis of terrestrial laser scanning (TLS) data the digital terrain model (DTM) is one of important elements. To evaluate the DTM or to find the DTM by way of optimization it is necessary to formulate the measure of DTM quality. Three parameterized measures are proposed and tested against a comparative model for a series of TLS data. The measure equal to the number of points inside a l...

Detailed high-resolution digital terrain models (DTM) can be obtained using airborne laser scanner data. This paper evaluates the accuracy of DTM derived from first return of laser scanner data for forest studies. Study area is located in a boreal forest zone. The data were acquired with TopoSys-1 under leaf-on condition. The study shows that the use of first pulse data for DTM generation in bo...