Multidrug resistance of pulmonary pathogens in patients with cystic fibrosis (CF) requires new therapeutic solutions. The aim . To assess the effect ceftazidime/avibactam (cef/avi) on clinical outcomes exacerbation fibrosis. Methods This open single-group observational prospective non-interventional study was conducted routine practice settings. Patients over 18 years a confirmed diagnosis CF a...

Abstract Background Multidrug-resistant infections are challenging to treat, due underlying patient conditions, pathogen characteristics, and high resistance rates antibiotic treatments. Ceftazidime/avibactam (CAZ-AVI, approved in 2015) is treat complicated intra-abdominal infections, urinary tract hospital-acquired bacterial pneumonia, ventilator-associated pneumonia. As newer therapies come m...

We propose a sparse method for scalable automated variational inference (AVI) in a large class of models with Gaussian process (GP) priors, multiple latent functions, multiple outputs and non-linear likelihoods. Our approach maintains the statistical efficiency property of the original AVI method, requiring only expectations over univariate Gaussian distributions to approximate the posterior wi...

Automatic Vehicle Identification (AVI) has many applications in traffic systems (highway electronic toll collection, red light violation enforcement, border and customs checkpoints, etc.). License Plate Recognition is an effective form of AVI systems. In this study, a smart and simple algorithm is presented for vehicle’s license plate recognition system. The proposed algorithm consists of three...

This paper is about the study of B-FQI, an Approximated Value Iteration (AVI) algorithm that exploits a boosting procedure to estimate the action-value function in reinforcement learning problems. B-FQI is an iterative off-line algorithm that, given a dataset of transitions, builds an approximation of the optimal action-value function by summing the approximations of the Bellman residuals acros...