The present study compared the antimicrobial susceptibility testing (AST) results generated by the Automated Incubation and Reading System (ARIS) with custom Sensititre plates (TREK Diagnostic Systems, Cleveland, Ohio) and MicroScan PC10 GP and NUMIC10 GN plates interpreted with the WalkAway-96 system (Dade Behring, West Sacramento, Calif.) for gram-positive (GP) and gram-negative (GN) organism...

Abstract The processing efficiency of the widely used time-space (t-x) domain vertical seismic profiling (VSP) wavefield separation methods (such as median and singular value decomposition filtering) via one-dimensional discrete Fourier transform (DFT) depends on method (or algorithm with parameter) total number samples in input VSP data. Once is determined, its set cannot be optimized. Althoug...

Due to a variety of motions across different frames, it is highly challenging learn an effective spatiotemporal representation for accurate video saliency prediction (VSP). To address this issue, we develop feature alignment network tailored VSP, mainly including two key sub-networks: multi-scale deformable convolutional (MDAN) and bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory (Bi-ConvLSTM) network. The...

I realize and analyze a model-based joint tomography scheme in this paper. Surface reflection seismic data and VSP traveltimes are used simultaneously to invert the velocity by using an integrated inversion scheme. Since more data are used, the integrated tomography can obtain more accurate inversion results with lower uncertainty. Using identity operator as integration operator, I apply this m...

In this study, we propose a heterogeneous transcoding method of converting an H.264/Advanced video coding (AVC) Baseline profile (BP) video bitstream into an MPEG-4 Visual simple profile (VSP) video bitstream. The proposed method reduces the spatial resolution for mobile terminals, which support only low resolution video bitstreams. When the H.264/AVC BP video bitstream is transformed into the ...

OBJECTIVE Magnetic resonance (MR) imaging has been used for the detection of cerebral vasospasm (VSP) related infarction in experimental subarachnoid hemorrhage (eSAH) in rats. Conventional angiography is generally used to visualize VSP, which is an invasive technique with a possible increase in morbidity and mortality. In this study we evaluated the validity of MR-angiography (MRA) in detectin...

The Vehicle Scheduling Problem (VSP) is the task of building an optimal set of rotations (vehicle schedule), such that each trip of a given timetable is covered by exactly one rotation. The restrictions and optimization criteria may differ from one problem setting to another. For multi-depot, multi-vehicle-type VSP for bus transit, each one-day rotation must end at the depot of start and is to ...

Voltage-sensing phosphoinositide phosphatase (VSP) contains voltage sensor and cytoplasmic phosphatase domains. A unique feature of this protein is that depolarization-induced motions of the voltage sensor activate PtdIns(3,4,5)P(3) and PtdIns(4,5)P(2) phosphatase activities. VSP exhibits remarkable structural similarities with PTEN, the phosphatase and tensin homolog deleted on chromosome 10. ...

A novel VSP imaging method that only requires a local velocity model around the well is presented. This method is denoted as a ‘local migration’, where the modelbased forward propagation and backward propagation operators are computed using a local velocity model between the well and the the target body. The velocity model for the complex overburden and salt body are not needed, and the source-...

In this paper, we propose the first heuristic approach for the vertex separator problem (VSP), based on Breakout Local Search (BLS). BLS is a recent meta-heuristic that follows the general framework of the popular Iterated Local Search (ILS) with a particular focus on the perturbation strategy. Based on some relevant information on search history, it tries to introduce the most suitable degree ...