The proliferation of smartphones exploits many new opportunities for mobile advertising. Many researchers believe that mobile advertising will be not only a killer application in mobile commerce, but also a noteworthy business model for many emerging mobile applications to monetize. Location based advertising (LBA) is a new advertising that integrates mobile advertising with location based serv...

Public health nurses in Ireland are charged with conducting a home visit to every postnatal mother within 48 hours of hospital discharge. This represents the beginning of a long-term relationship, not only with the mother and newborn child but also with the family. This article fundamentally demonstrates the essential work of the public health nurse in promoting the health of the baby within a ...

Ehrenwörtliche Versicherung Diese Dissertation wurde selbständig, ohne unerlaubte Hilfe erarbeitet. III Für meine Frau, meine Tochter, und meine ganze Familie. This thesis founds on the following manuscripts, which are referred to as Moik et al. 2011a or b, respectively. (2011). Loss of migfilin expression has no overt consequences on murine development and homeostasis, J Cell Sci124, 414-21. R...

Acinetobacter baumannii pigmented strains are not common in clinical settings. Here, we report an outbreak caused by indigo-pigmented A. baumannii strains isolated in an acute care hospital in Argentina from March to September 2012. Pan-PCR assays exposed a unique pattern belonging to the recently described regional CC113(B)/CC79(P) clonal complex that confirms the relevant relationships among ...

Aim Species on islands are at high risk of extinction due to environmental changes, including global warming, land-use alterations and invasions. At local scales, extinctions can be offset by strategies promoting in situ persistence. We explored how persistence-related traits plants—that is, linked belowground resource conservation, growth, size longevity—on edaphic respond variation insularity...

In this report the immune system and its adaptive properties are described and a simple artificial immune system (AIS) model based on the clonal selection theory is presented. This immune system model is demonstrated to be capable of learning the structure of novel antigens, of memory for previously encountered antigens, and of being able to use its memory to respond more efficiently to antigen...

Partaking in this grisly feast are the larvae of a parasitoid wasp, Copidosoma floridanum. Like other wasps, Copidosoma are haplodiploid: Fertilized eggs produce females; unfertilized eggs become males. These wasps are also polyembryonic: Eggs split to produce many clonal embryos. A single host may contain multiple eggs from multiple females, resulting in a hodgepodge of genetic relationships. ...

clonality V.0.4 is a program for testing heterozygosity-genet size relationships in clonal organisms using a randomization procedure. The software has been developed under the Borland Delphi developing environment and a Windows-executable version is freely downloadable from http://gemi.mpl.ird.fr/SiteSGASS/Prugnolle/ClonalityPage.html. The program compares the observed F(IS) of the population w...

background and objectives: citrobacter freundii is an opportunistic pathogen causing nosocomial infections and resistant to various antibiotics. we aimed to determine the clonal relationship of c. freundii isolates using pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (pfge). materials and methods: fifty clinical isolates of c. freundii were collected from the main hospital in kermanshah. after antibiotic sus...