Introduction to CANWARD 2007

Introduction to OSS 2007 Tutorial Program

We are very pleased to introduce Open Source Development, Adoption and Innovation, the proceedings of the Third International Conference on Open Source Systems (OSS 2007). Open source software (free software, libre software) has emerged as a major field of scientific inquiry across a number of disciplines (software engineering, information systems, business, economics, law, sociology, just to n...

Antimicrobial susceptibility of 22746 pathogens from Canadian hospitals: results of the CANWARD 2007-11 study.

OBJECTIVES The purpose of the CANWARD study was to assess the antimicrobial activity of a variety of available agents against 22,746 pathogens isolated from patients in Canadian hospitals between 2007 and 2011. METHODS Between 2007 and 2011, 27,123 pathogens were collected from tertiary-care centres from across Canada; 22,746 underwent antimicrobial susceptibility testing using CLSI broth mic...

Identification of multidrug- and carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii in Canada: results from CANWARD 2007.

OBJECTIVES Multidrug-resistant (MDR) Acinetobacter baumannii is a growing concern in many countries. This report describes patient demographics, antimicrobial susceptibilities and molecular characteristics of A. baumannii cases identified through the Canadian Ward Surveillance Study (CANWARD). In addition, clinical cases involving MDR carbapenem-resistant A. baumannii are also detailed in this ...

EMSOFT 2007 guest editors' introduction

EMSOFT’s purpose is to bring together researchers and developers from academia, industry, and government to advance the science, engineering, and technology in embedded software development. Two papers were selected from among the best EMSOFT papers for submission to this special issue. The first paper is entitled “Design and implementation of a uniformity-improving page allocation scheme for f...

Advances in Stroke 2007: introduction.