background acinetobacter baumannii is an opportunistic pathogen, related with nosocomial infections such as bacteremia, urinary tract infections, and ventilator-associated pneumonia. multidrug resistant (mdr) a. baumannii strains are first line causes of infection, especially in patients hospitalized at intensive care units (icus). infection with mdr a. baumannii strains has a longer duration a...

forty monoconidial isolates of magnaporthe grisea were examined, for an identification of vegetative compatibility group and a characterization of genetic diversity, using rep-pcr genomic fingerprinting. the isolates were collected from weeds digitaria sanguinalis (crabgrass), setaria italica (foxtail millet), echinochloa crus-galli (barnyard millet), and some other unknown ones during 2003 - 2...

ing logical rules should be justified and based on the data that we can observe from a real system. In other words, if a logical rule is abstracted, the input data for the abstracted logical rule should be observable in the real system, and its output data also should be comparable to the observable results of the real system. An abstracted model does not provide more I/O data than the original...

In this paper, a novel multi-fidelity modelling-based optimisation framework is developed for the robust design of composite structures. The proposed provides significant savings on computation time compared to both conventional and high-fidelity modelling methods while maintaining an acceptable level accuracy. Artificial neural networks (ANNs) multi-level approach are incorporated into formula...

A reciprocal transplant-replant experiment was carried out to investigate the clonal plasticity and local specialization of OAFE population (O type) and BF population (U type) of a clonal rhizome herb Iris japonica in contrasting reciprocal heterogeneous habitats on Jinyun Mountain. U Population had better performance of plant size and clonal propagation (including allocation to clonal propagat...

Multifidelity Monte Carlo (MFMC) estimation combines lowand high-fidelity models to speedup the estimation of statistics of the high-fidelity model outputs. MFMC optimally samples the lowand high-fidelity models such that the MFMC estimator has minimal mean-squared error for a given computational budget. In the setup of MFMC, the low-fidelity models are static, i.e., they are given and fixed an...

The point mutation rate of a murine leukemia virus (MuLV) genome (AKV) was determined under conditions in which the number of replicative cycles was carefully controlled and the point mutation rate was determined by direct examination of the RNA genomes of progeny viruses. A clonal cell line infected at a low multiplicity of infection (2 x 10(-3)) was derived to provide a source of virus with h...

two experiments were performed for in vitro establishment, proliferation and shoot growth in axillary bud explants of sebri pear cultivar. in the first experiment, the effect of different concentrations of iba(indole-3-butyric acid) on explants’ establishment was evaluated. in a second experiment, the influence of several combinations of pgrs (plant growth regulators)on shoot proliferation and ...

BACKGROUND Implementation fidelity is critical to the internal and external validity of implementation research. Much of what is written about implementation fidelity addresses fidelity of evidence-informed interventions rather than fidelity of implementation strategies. The documentation and reporting of fidelity to implementation strategies requires attention. Therefore, in this scoping revie...