INTRODUCTION Introduction of new antibiotics enabling single-dose administration, such as oritavancin may significantly impact site of care decisions for patients with acute bacterial skin and skin structure infections (ABSSSI). This analysis compared the efficacy of single-dose oritavancin with multiple-dose vancomycin in patients categorized according to disease severity via modified Eron cla...

Some initial works have appeared that began to deal with the complicated task of musical instrument recognition in multi-instrumental music. Although quite a few papers have already appeared on instrument recognition of singleinstrument musical phrases (“solos”), the work on solo recognition is not yet exhausted. The knowledge of how to deal well with solos can also help in recognition of multi...

BACKGROUND The South African government intends to contract with 'accredited provider groups' for capitated primary care under National Health Insurance (NHI). South African solo general practitioners (GPs) are unhappy with group practice. There is no clarity on the views of GPs in group practice on contracting to the NHI. OBJECTIVES To describe the demographic and practice profile of GPs in ...

Almost Human is an investigation of interdisciplinary performance through music that looks to the self to try to further understand subjective performance practices in expression, gesture and sonic output. This text presents experimental methods of examining and creating music through kinaesthetic and electronic-assisted means within instrumental, dance and interactive works. The extraction of ...

In solo synchronization-continuation (SC) tasks, intertap intervals (ITI) are known to drift from the initial tempo. It has been demonstrated that people in paired and group contexts modulate their action timing unconsciously in various situations such as choice reaction tasks, rhythmic body sway, and hand clapping in concerts, which suggests the possibility that ITI drift is also affected by p...

Using a new scheme for the isolation of suppressor of Ty insertion mutations (spt mutations) in yeast, we have identified six new SPT genes. Mutations in two of these genes, SPT13 and SPT14, exhibit a novel suppression pattern: suppression of complete Ty insertion mutations, but not of solo delta insertion mutations. Transcriptional analysis shows that spt13- and spt14-mediated suppression of T...

Jacks-of-All-Trades? The Effect of Balanced Skills on Team Performance Previous empirical studies have shown that solo entrepreneurs benefit from having balanced skills: Jacks-of-All-Trades (JATs) are better entrepreneurs than specialists are. Nowadays however, the majority of entrepreneurs start up and run ventures together in teams. In this paper we test whether the effect of more balanced sk...

The ability to automatically identify the musical instruments occurring in a recorded piece of music has important uses for various music-related applications. This paper examines the case of instrument classification where the raw data consists of musical phrases performed on digital instruments from eight instrument families. We compare the use of extracted features from a continuous sample o...

Over four days, a researcher recorded the at-home activities of 30 families at 10-min intervals. Television viewing was the second most frequently observed activity for parents and the most frequently observed activity for children. Most television was watched in common areas of the home and in the presence of at least one other person, with the most common viewing configuration involving both ...