Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) has become the most frequently reported health care-associated infection in the United States [1]. As the incidence of CDI rises, so too does the burden it produces on health care and society. In an attempt to decrease the burden of CDI and provide the best outcomes for patients affected by CDI, there have been many recent advancements in the understanding,...

Ca(2+)/calmodulin- and voltage-dependent inactivation (CDI and VDI) comprise vital prototypes of Ca(2+) channel modulation, rich with biological consequences. Although the events initiating CDI and VDI are known, their downstream mechanisms have eluded consensus. Competing proposals include hinged-lid occlusion of channels, selectivity filter collapse, and allosteric inhibition of the activatio...

dream.Medusa is a multimedia piece combining performance, responsive video, and audience feedback. Live vocalization and participant controlled devices provide interaction into a simulated lucid dream environment created with Max/MSP and Jitter. We discuss the concept of the piece, the interaction technologies, and the experience of performing with interactive participants. This document provid...

In the European Council directive (2013/59/EURATOM) the reference levels for radon are based on the annual average concentration (max. 300 Bq/m 3 ). Waiting a year or longer for detector exposure and analysis completion demotivates many stakeholders to give serious consideration to the radon problem and its consequent mitigation. We propose an approach for a speedy problem identification, yet t...

A one year drought was simulated in 1989 on mature conventionally spaced cv. Chico walnuts. A controlled deficit irrigation (~DI) regime was used to apply 16 inches of water for the season. Yield in that year was not significantly different than fully irrigated (41 inches) trees. The CDI trees were returned to full irrigation in 1990. This year, nut yield was dramatically lower due to about an ...

INTRODUCTION Little is known about prevailing ribotypes of Clostridium difficile infection in Romania where CDI is not a mandatory notifiable disease. METHODOLOGY We studied 64 non-duplicate C. difficile isolates from patients hospitalised at the National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Bucharest, Romania between March 2011 and March 2012. RESULTS Sixty-three of the 64 C. difficile isolat...

We conducted active sentinel surveillance in Monroe County, New York, USA, to compare incidence of community-associated Clostridium difficile infections (CA-CDIs) with that of health care-associated infections (HA-CDIs) and identify exposure and strain type differences between CA and HA cases. Patients positive for C. difficile toxin and with no documented health care exposure in the previous 1...

Using hybrid functional calculations, we investigate the effects of defects and defect complexes related with Cd, Li, and N impurities on the atomic and electronic properties of Ag3PO4. It was found that substitutional Cd on Ag lattice site (CdAg) contributes to the n-type conductivity of Ag3PO4. For substitutional Cd on P (or O) lattice site (CdP) (or CdO), it is not expected that Cd will inco...

In the learning process, there are some elements that have to be noticed in order to make it effective and optimal. The elements are; the objective of the learning process, the type of content, the learning method, the delivery media, and the learning style of the students. The focus of this research was the learning style of the students, in the learning context with interactive multimedia (an...

This paper surveys the upcoming MHEG standard, as under development by the Multimedia Hypermedia Experts Group of ISO. It’s scope is to define a system-independent encoding of the structure information which can be used for storing, exchanging, and executing of multimedia presentations in final form. We use a running example to describe the building blocks of an MHEG encoded presentation. To co...