Frequent outbreaks of Pichia anomala fungaemia in paediatric patients have warranted the development of a rapid identification system for this organism. This study describes a specific PCR-based method targeting the rRNA gene intergenic spacer region 1 (IGS1) for rapid identification of Pichia anomala isolates and characterization at the strain level. These methods of species identification and...

This paper avails of the multinational-level Amadeus dataset to study the dynamics of the European pharmaceutical industry in the Single Market Programme era: 1990-2004. Our unit of investigations are multinationals that every period decide whether to expand or not, by capturing at least one of the arisen opportunities. By using a dynamic panel probit approach with unobserved heterogeneity we s...

Managing high-risk CLL during transition to a new treatment era: stem cell transplantation or novel agents? Peter Dreger, Johannes Schetelig, Niels Andersen, Paolo Corradini, Michel van Gelder, John Gribben, Eva Kimby, Mauricette Michallet, Carol Moreno, Stephan Stilgenbauer, and Emili Montserrat, on behalf of the European Research Initiative on CLL (ERIC) and the European Society for Blood and...

The tautog, Tautoga onitis (Linnaeus), ranges from Nova Scotia to South Carolina and has become a popular target for recreational and com­ mercial fisheries. Although tautog are a multiple spawning species, reproductive potential, measured as annual fecun­ dity, has not been estimated previously with methods (batch fecundity, spawn­ ing frequency) necessary for a species with indeterminate annu...

Von Neumann’s standard paradigm of a game in extensive form and Kolmogorov’s standard model of a stochastic process both rely on constructing a fixed state space large enough to include all possible future eventualities. This allows a typical single-person decision problem to be represented as a decision tree. Yet not all eventualities can be foreseen. Also, any practical decision model must li...

In this paper we propose a strategy for measuring the inclusive W -boson production processes at LHC. This strategy exploits simultaneously the unique flexibility of the LHC collider in running variable beam particle species at variable beam energies, and the configuration flexibility of the LHC detectors. We propose their concrete settings for a precision measurement of the Standard Model para...

Corononcodes ziegleri spec. nov. is described and illustrated based on material from Iran. The species represents the second Palaearctic representative of this panopine genus. In addition, C. siculus Bezzi is recorded from Fuerteventura (Canary Islands, Spain) for the first time. An identification key to the Palaearctic species of Corononcodes is presented. Additional faunistic records for the ...