We document the absence of carriage of Neisseria meningitidis W-135 of the sequence type 11 grip right in returning pilgrims after the Hajj 2002.This finding contrasts with the 15% carriage rate we previously reported in pilgrims returning from the Hajj 2001.The epidemiology of carriage may be changing or may Framed Historical Photos have been cont
With increasing capabilities of electric motors and energy storage, aircraft designs for electrified commuter and regional aircraft become more relevant than ever.Design concepts are often derived and optimised according to existing, conventional reference aircraft; however, their characteristics differ and the underlying trade-offs are divergent.T
Membranes are considered as a promising technology for separation and filtration processes.Here, novel polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) nanofibrous multilayer membranes were fabricated by wire-based industrial electrospinning equipment following by a lamination process.The lamination process was optimised under various applied temperature, force of l
Abstract To address the challenge of limited training samples, this study employs the model-agnostic meta-learning (MAML) algorithm along with domain-knowledge-based data augmentation to predict winter temperatures on the Korean Peninsula.While data augmentation has been achieved by using global climate model simulations, the proposed augmentation
Fahad I Alkhudhairy,1 Peter Yaman,2 Joseph Dennison,2 Neville McDonald,2 Alberto Herrero,3 Mohammed S Bin-Shuwaish1 1Department of Restorative Dental Sciences, College of Dentistry, King Saud University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia; 2Department of Cariology, Restorative Sciences and Endodontics, School of Dentistry, University of Michigan,