Language management in literary events mediated by a Japanese native speakers : Analysis of the interaction in a shopping situation

千葉大学社会文化科学研究科研究プロジェクト報告書第104集『接触場面の言語管理研究vol.3』所

Technical characteristic of EU-approved HIV screening rapid tests for use on whole blood and/or oral fluid.

<p>Technical characteristic of EU-approved HIV screening rapid tests for use on whole blood and/or oral fluid.</p

Sensitivity of rapid test detection according to the HIV genotype.

<p>*Failure from PCR, serotyping insufficient volume in one sample;</p><p>**HIV-1 Subtype non B: A (3); D (2); F (2); J (1); O (1); CRF01 (3); CRF02 (17); CRF06 (1); CRF19 (1); Recombinant B/CRF02 (1); Complex recombinant (2); Serotyped as non B (24). Fischer exact test, p>0.25.</p

An application of the perpendicular moisture index for the prediction of fire hazard

Various factors contribute to forest fire hazard, and among them vegetation moisture is the one that dictates susceptibility to fire ignition and propagation. The scientific community has developed a number of spectral indices based on remote sensing measurements in the optical domain for the assessment of vegetation equivalent water thickness (EWT), which is defined as the mass of liquid water per unit of leaf surface. However, fire models rely on the live fuel moisture content (LFMC) as a measure of vegetation moisture. LFMC is defined as the ratio of the mass of the liquid water in a fresh leaf over the mass of oven dry leaf, and spectral indices proposed so far fail in capturing LFMC variability. Recently, the perpendicular moisture index (PMI), based on MODIS, was pro-posed to overcome this limitation and provide a direct measure of LFMC. The aim of this research was to understand the potential and limitations of the PMI in predicting fire hazard, towards its ap-plication in a practical context. To this purpose, a data set of more than 7,700 fires recorded in Campania (13,595 km2), Italy, between 2000 and 2008 was compared with PMI derived from MODIS images. Results show that there is no relationship between PMI and fire size, whereas a linear correlation was found between the spectral index and fire rate of spread.Geoscience & Remote SensingCivil Engineering and Geoscience

Sensitivity of five rapid HIV tests in 200 HIV-infected patients, combining the results for finger-stick whole blood and, when the latter was negative, for serum.

<p>Differences in sensitivity between whole blood and serum were analyzed with the Mc Nemar test for paired samples.</p

Comparison of patient characteristics according to HIV screening rapid tests results on whole blood and/or oral fluid results.

<p>Comparison of patient characteristics according to HIV screening rapid tests results on whole blood and/or oral fluid results.</p