Among fungal pathogens, Cryptococcus neoformans has gained great importance among the scientific community of several reasons.This fungus is the causative agent of cryptococcosis, a disease mainly associated to HIV immunosuppression and characterized by the appearance of meningoencephalitis.Cryptococcal meningitis is responsible for hundreds of tho

Two goodness-of-fit tests for copulas are being here investigated.The first one deals with the case of elliptical copulas and the second one deals with independent copulas.These tests result from the expansion of the projection pursuit methodology that we will introduce in the present article.This method enables us to determine on which axis system

The invasive alien species Harmonia axyridis (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) was first observed in the UK in 2004.Previous studies have demonstrated the adverse effects on other species of H.axyridis during its early stages of establishment.However, habitat factors are important in determining distribution and population trends of ladybirds.Whilst the

ObjectiveThe adoption of electronic health records (EHRs) has produced enormous amounts of data, creating research opportunities in clinical data sciences.Several concept recognition systems have been developed to facilitate clinical information extraction from these data.While studies exist that compare the performance of many concept recognition

Since the discovery that tightly focused femtosecond laser pulses can induce a highly localised sofia barclay sexy and permanent refractive index modification in a large number of transparent dielectrics, the technique of ultrafast laser inscription has received great attention from a wide range of applications.In particular, the capability to crea