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Common variable immunodeficiency (CVID) is characterized by recurrent infections due to impairments in antibody quantity and quality. As such, immunoglobulin G replacement therapy (IgGRT) is the standard-of-care (SOC) fo...

Despite the growing number of interventions aimed at reducing household food waste (HFW), many remain overly generalised and fail to adequately account for the heterogeneous routines, motivations, and disposal contexts t...

Abstract Topological protection ensures stability of information and particle transport against perturbations. We explore experimentally and computationally the topologically protected transport of magnetic colloids abov...

O propósito deste artigo é apresentar o pensamento de política externa brasileira no Segundo Reinado e na Primeira República. Argumenta-se que o posicionamento do Brasil em relações bilaterais com grandes potência...

The increase in longevity tourism, driven by an aging populace and wellness travel, raises environmental issues, notably carbon emissions from travel. Thailand is becoming a key destination for this type of tourism, nece...

The monito del monte Dromiciops gliroides Thomas, 1894, is a marsupial endemic to the temperate rainforests of Argentina and Chile. Studies on its phylogenetic relationships show the species is more closely related to Au...

Abstract Cloaking is a method of making obstacles undetectable. Here we cloak unit cells of a magnetic pattern squeezed into an otherwise periodic pattern from a magnetically driven colloidal flow. We apply a time-period...

Hibernation and daily torpor are two distinct forms of torpor, and although they are related, it is not known how and in which sequence they evolved. As the pattern of torpor expressed by the oldest marsupial order the o...

Abstract Objectives To analyze spatiotemporal clustering patterns of severe hand foot and mouth disease (HFMD) in children aged ≤ 5 years, quantify the associations between meteorological factors and severe HFMD in...

We develop a face recognition algorithm which is insensitive to large variation in lighting direction and facial expression. Taking a pattern classification approach, we consider each pixel in an image as a coordinate in...

Feature selection is an important problem for pattern classification systems. We study how to select good features according to the maximal statistical dependency criterion based on mutual information. Because of the dif...

A general non-parametric technique is proposed for the analysis of a complex multimodal feature space and to delineate arbitrarily shaped clusters in it. The basic computational module of the technique is an old pattern ...

Tissue classification in Magnetic Resonance (MR) brain images is an important issue in the analysis of several brain dementias. This paper presents a modification of the classical K-means algorithm taking into account th...

O objetivo desse estudo foi descrever quantitativamente o padrão de consumo de antimicrobianos em um Hospital Universitário no período de 2000 a 2006. A metodologia usada seguiu o modelo de estudo descritivo, com cole...

Object-oriented software development has proven effective for systems development, but the creation of reusable and changeable software architectures is still a challenging task. Design patterns capture the expertise for...

Los patrones de actividad diario y estacional de una población de Liolaemus koslowskyi del NE de la provincia de La Rioja, Argentina, fueron estudiados entre octubre de 1998 y abril de 1999, mediante transectas realizad...

Neste trabalho foi realizado um estudo exploratório sobre o padrão de prescrição de medicamentos a base de Hypericum perforatum por médicos psiquiatras na cidade de Porto Alegre - RS. O desenho foi um estudo trans...

This paper presents a parallel architecture for a radial basis function (RBF) neural network used for pattern recognition. This architecture allows defining sub-networks which can be activated sequentially. It can be use...

An update commented list of the snake genus Apostolepis from South America, with keys for identification of the species. They are fossorial snakes that present different coloration according their distribution: (a) 7 to ...

La complejidad es una característica inherente al software desde sus orígenes, e igualmente característico es que dicha complejidad crece en consonancia con el universo de roles que desempeña en la actualidad. Perman...

Past work has documented and described major patterns of adaptive and maladaptive behavior: the mastery-oriented and the helpless patterns. In this article, we present a research-based model that accounts for these patte...

Two Monte Carlo studies were conducted to examine the sensitivity of goodness of fit indexes to lack of measurement invariance at 3 commonly tested levels: factor loadings, intercepts, and residual variances. Standardize...

A tandem repeat in DNA is two or more contiguous, approximate copies of a pattern of nucleotides. Tandem repeats have been shown to cause human disease, may play a variety of regulatory and evolutionary roles and are imp...