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Modern operating systems are based on the principle of time-sharing in executing simultaneous operations. Determining the length of the time slice, and the times when processes arrive at the ready queue are problems that...

The turnover time for aircraft maintenance is crucial for the operational efficiency and profitability of airlines. Quality assurance (QA) and quality control (QC) procedures play a role in assuring the safe and reliable...

Low-cost carriers are applying hybrid business strategies in Europe to compete with traditional airlines for more customers. The aim of this study was to investigate the differences between low-cost and non-low-cost carr...

Tuberculosis (TB) continues to be one of the foremost public health issues in the world, and remains the second most salient communicable cause of death after COVID-19. In 2022, TB accounted for 10.6 million new infectio...

Abstract Infectious disease diagnostics has been transformed by metagenomic next‐generation sequencing (mNGS), an unbiased approach that detects bacteria, viruses, fungi, and parasites in a single assay. By sequencing ...

Abstract Background Point‐of‐care (POC) Cryptococcus antigen assays may provide veterinarians with a more rapid, patient‐side diagnosis when compared with traditional laboratory‐based latex agglutination tests. O...

The long-term evolution of total ozone column inside the Antarctic polar vortex is investigated over the 1980-2016 period. Trend analyses are performed using a multilinear regression (MLR) model based on various proxies ...

Neonatal sepsis has remained a foremost cause of morbidity and mortality globally, specifically in low- and middle-income countries. The neonatal period, which spans the first 28 days of life, has the highest lifetime ri...

Objectives: To perform a multicentre study evaluating the performance of the direct nitrate reductase assay (NRA) for the detection of multidrug-resistant (MDR) and extensively drug-resistant (XDR) tuberculosis in sputum...

ObjectivesTimely administration of appropriate antimicrobial therapy is critical for sepsis management, yet conventional antimicrobial susceptibility testing (AST) methods typically provide results within 24–48 hours a...

Background. Respiratory infections remain a major global health burden with significant economic impact. The di-versity of viral pathogens and variability in diagnostic approaches complicate etiological verification in l...