New blood culture media containing antibiotic-binding polymeric beads have been developed for the BacT/Alert (bioMérieux, Inc., Durham, NC) blood culture system. To assess the performance of these new media, we compared the new BacT/Alert aerobic medium (FA Plus) with resins to BacT/Alert FA medium with activated charcoal and the new BacT/Alert anaerobic medium (FN Plus) to BacT/Alert FN medium...

1 I n t r o d u c t i o n In food industry, we can find many manipulative operations that deal with deformable rheologic materials such as dough, paste, jelly, and meat. Most these operations are done by humans. Especially, operations with large deformation of rheologic objects depend upon humans. For example, forming of pizza dough to a thin circular shape is performed by humans while extensio...

This paper describes the ROLLENT system submitted to the Eight International Planning Competition, Learning Track. ROLLENT combines two machine learning techniques: generation of entanglements and decision tree learning by ROLLER. Entanglements capture causal relationships for a class of problems while ROLLER learns relational decision trees useful to sort the applicable operators at a given st...

a 45-year-old prisoner violently inserted a 30 cm bottle into his rectum in the prison. he complained of lower abdominal fullness and inability to pass stool. his vital signs were stable and the abdominal examination did not reveal any peritoneal sign. multiple longitudinal ulcer like anal fissures were also remarkable in different positions of the anal wall extending to the rectum. attempts we...

Mechanistic pavement design procedures based on elastic layer theory require characterization of all pavement layer materials including subgrade soil. This paper discusses the subgrade stiffness obtained from a new compaction device called the Intelligent Compaction (IC) roller on highway embankment projects in Kansas. Three test sections on two routes were compacted using a single, smooth stee...

The aim of this study was to investigate the association between bottle feeding and prevalence rates of increased overjet and Class 2 primary canine relationship. The sample consisted of 911 children (461 boys, 450 girls) aged 3 (13.9%), 4 (40.8%), 5 (34%) and 6 (11.3%) years, with complete primary dentition. Information about nutritive and nonnutritive (pacifier and/or digit) sucking habits wa...

The BACTEC 16B resin medium was developed to detect bacteremia in patients receiving antimicrobial therapy. Over a 9-month period, we compared the efficacy of the BACTEC 16B bottle to the conventional aerobic BACTEC 6B bottle. Of a total of 1,524 sets of blood cultures, 79 yielded presumed pathogens. Of these 79 sets, 42 (53.2%) were positive in both the 16B and 6B bottles, 23 (29.1%) were posi...

This paper is concerned with optimization of process parameters for a roller leveller that is an indispensable equipment to eliminate the undesirable curvature of a thin-walled aluminum pipe. Optimization of process parameters has been carried out for a multistaggered-type 14-roller leveller. A finite element model of a multi-staggered 14-roller leveller was constructed for analysis whose resul...

[Purpose] This study aims to examined the effect of the self-myofascial release induced with a foam roller on the reduction of stress by measuring the serum concentration of cortisol. [Subjects and Methods] The subjects of this study were healthy females in their 20s. They were divided into the experimental and control groups. Both groups, each consisting of 12 subjects, were directed to walk f...

The label on a bottle of pills says “Take one half pill daily.” A natural way to proceed is as follows: Every day, remove a pill from the bottle at random. If it is a whole pill, break it in half, take one half, and return the other half to the bottle; if it is a half pill, take it. We analyze the history of such a pill bottle.