This paper presents a fast and efficient hardware memory allocation technique, called FEMA, to detect the existence of any free block of requested size in memory. The technique can allocate a free memory block of any number of chunks in any part of memory. The hardware algorithm which was proved more efficient by using the benchmark in [6], the gate-level design of the hardware unit and its are...

A PCR-based assay that can simultaneously detect and differentiate five different types of nosocomial bacterial pathogens was developed. Six pairs of selected primers targeting femA (132 bp) and mecA (310 bp) of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, gltA (722 bp) of Acinetobacter baumannii, phoA (903 bp) of Escherichia coli, mdh (364 bp) of Klebsiella pneumoniae and oprL (504 bp) of Pseu...

Clinically useful antibiotics, β-lactams and vancomycin, are known to inhibit bacterial cell wall peptidoglycan synthesis. Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) has a unique cell wall structure consisting of peptidoglycan and wall teichoic acid. In recent years, new anti-infectious agents (spirohexaline, tripropeptin C, DMPI, CDFI, cyslabdan, 1835F03, and BPH-652) targeting MRSA ce...

In principle, FEMA supports the implementation of ITS technology that has the potential to provide added safety, comfort and economy to road users provided that: their use is not mandatory, and does not exclude unequipped vehicles from the road; they take into account the needs, characteristics and limitations of powered two wheeler users and their vehicles; they do not create an additional haz...

Climate change has caused uncertainty in the hydrological pattern including weather change, precipitation fluctuations, and extreme temperature, thus triggering unforeseen natural tragedies such as hurricanes, flash flooding, heatwave more. Because of these unanticipated events occurring all around globe, study influence climate on alteration flooding patterns gained a lot attention. This resea...

We developed, validated, and implemented real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR) detection of the femA gene for Staphylococcus aureus and the mecA gene for methicillin resistance directly from BACTEC (Becton Dickinson, Sparks, MD) blood culture bottles showing gram-positive cocci in clusters. For the 332 positive blood cultures tested, the assay had 100% sensitivity and specificity for identi...