Comparison of in vitro antifungal activities of efinaconazole and 1 currently available antifungal agents against a variety of pathogenic 2 fungi associated with onychomycosis 3 4 William J. Jo Siu, Yoshiyuki Tatsumi, Hisato Senda, Radhakrishnan Pillai, Takashi 5 Nakamura, Daisuke Sone, Annette Fothergill 6 7 Dow Pharmaceutical Sciences, a Division of Valeant Pharmaceuticals North America 8 LLC...

The proposal of the Education Commission Report No.4 (ECR4) to stream seventy per cent and thirty per cent of Secondary One students into Chinese-medium and English-medium sectors has rekindled the debate concerning the desirability of allowing over 90 per cent of local secondary students to receive their education in Anglo-Chinese Secondary Schools which profess to use English as a medium of i...

Let M be a close complex manifold and T M its holomorphic tangent bundle. We prove that if the global holomorphic sections of tangent bundle generate each fibre, then M is a complex homogeneous manifold. It implies that every irreducible close Kähler manifold with ample tangent bundle is isomorphic to the projective space. This provides an alternative proof of Hartshore's conjecture in algebrai...

A reliable correlation between rainfall-runoff enables the local authority to gain more amble time for formulation of appropriate decision making, issuance of an advanced flood forewarning, and execution of earlier evacuation measures. Since a variety of existing methods such as rainfall-runoff modeling or statistical techniques involve exogenous input and different assumptions, artificial neur...

Résumé/Abstract: We consider a risk minimization problem in a continuous-time Markovian regimeswitching financial model modulated by a continuous-time, observable and finitestate Markov chain whose states represent different market regimes. We adopt a particular form of convex risk measure, which includes the entropic risk measure as a particular case, as a proxy of risk. The riskminimization p...

In his article, “Necropolitics and Visuality: Remembering ‘Speculative Fictions’ in Hong Kong after Rancière Mbembe,” Anthony Siu examines images from Defiance.Voices, a two-volume collection that gathers photography art illustrations about the Protests. He studies how paintings second volume register politics events, arguing visual can be viewed as new form of “speculative fictions,” material ...

Male urethral stricture is one of the oldest known urologic diseases, and continues to be a common and challenging urologic condition. Our objective was to review all contemporary and historial articles on the topic of dilation, internal urethrotomy, and stenting of male anterior urethral strictures. An extensive review of the scientific literature concerning anterior urethral urethrotomy/dilat...

A generalization of the Catalan numbers is considered. New results include binomial identities, recursive relations and a close formula for the multivariate generating function. A simple expression for the Catalan determinant is derived.

1. Moran GJ, Amii RN, Abrahamian FM, Talan DA. Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in community-acquired skin infections. Emerg Infect Dis. 2005;11: 928–30. 2. Lee MC, Rios AM, Aten MF, Mejias A, Cavuoti D, McCracken GH Jr, et al. Management and outcome of children with skin and soft tissue abscesses caused by community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. Pediatr Infec...