The enterococcal surface protein, Esp, originally found in Enterococcus faecalis, has been associated with increased virulence, colonization, and biofilm formation (2, 3, 5, 6). Recently, a variant esp gene was found in Enterococcus faecium isolates from humans (L. Baldassarri, L. Burtuccini, M. G. Ammendolia, G. Gherardi, and R. Creti, Letter, Lancet 357:1802, 2001; R. J. Willems, W. Homan, J....

ac ti ng m or al ly or im m or al ly or , m or e ge ne ra ll y, to ch oo se be tw ee n at l ea st t w o co ur se s of ac ti on . A ns el m 's ac co un t of fr ee do m , ho w ev er , do es n ot al w ay s re qu ir e th e pr es en ce of al te rn at iv e po ss ib il it ie s t ha t is , a n ac ti on m ay b e co ns id er ed fr ee ev en if th e ag en t co ul d no t ac t in a ny w ay o th er t ha n he ...

The atom-bond connectivity index of graph is a topological index proposed by Estrada et al. as ABC (G)  uvE (G ) (du dv  2) / dudv , where the summation goes over all edges of G, du and dv are the degrees of the terminal vertices u and v of edge uv. In the present paper, some upper bounds for the second type of atom-bond connectivity index are computed.

a new antagonistic discourse has been formed among intellectuals, in the intellectual history of the world.  some anti-british, and after september 1941 anti-american activities are evident among iranian intellectuals under the rule of pahlavi i. the westerns' anti-west beliefs disclose the unjust behavior of west in contrast to non-westerns, what chamskey introduces as one of intellectual...

realism represents the world as it is, not as we want. realistic novel is a depiction of the society with all its ugliness and beauty. the novelist depicts an event in a specific location, at a specific time by means of characters and conducts it in a particular direction through the choice of a point of view. this image of the time, location, characters and point of view shows the history of s...

viewpoint ofimamiehilm al-kalam on wickedness hussein emadzadeh1,dr. mahdi farmanian21- ph.d. student ofimamiehilm al-kalam, tehran university (farabi campus), instructor at islamic azad university of gachsaran, corresponding author, e-mail: [email protected] assistant professor, university of religions and denominationsabstractscholars before khawja that were living at a time when ilm a...

Erythranthe (Mimulus) filicifolia was recently recognized and formally described as a new species of sect. Simiola from Butte and Plumas counties in north-central California (Sexton et al. 2013; transferred to Erythranthe by Nesom 2013b). Sexton et al. compared the new species to E. laciniata, as both species have a Sierra Nevadan geographic range, generally similar habitats, and dissected leav...