About 1·3 million people died of tuberculosis in 2012, despite availability of effective drug
treatment. Barriers to improvements in outcomes include long treatment duration (resulting in …

Objectives Better outcomes in tuberculosis require new diagnostic and treatment monitoring
tools. In this paper we evaluated the utility of a marker of M. tuberculosis viable count, the …

… PJ Philips, PJ Grother, and GW Quinn are with the National Institute of Standards and
Technology, Gaithersburg, MD 20899 USA (e-mail: jonathon@nist.gov; patrick.grother@nist.gov; …

Across the United States, there is a rapidly growing awareness of the occurrence and the
toxicological impacts of natural and synthetic trace compounds in the environment. These trace …

Across the United States, there is a rapidly growing awareness of the occurrence and the
toxicological impacts of natural and synthetic trace compounds in the environment. These trace …

Vanadium dioxide (VO2), one the correlated electron material has received many attentions
through a metal-insulator transition (MIT) at~ 340 K, close to room temperature [1]. The MIT …

We consider the problem of controlling a continuous plant using only discrete-state information
provided, for example, by level sensors for the various state variables of the plant and …

A class of hybrid systems is considered that arises when discrete event-systems are used to
control continuous system. In order to let the continuous system communicate with the …

This is a comprehensive manual of all aspects of the science of poultry nutrition, and thus is
not only of value to students, but also a useful reference text for anyone involved in the …

Over the last decade, the introduction of microarray technology has had a profound impact
on gene expression research. The publication of studies with dissimilar or altogether …