The class B carbapenem-hydrolyzing beta-lactamase IND-1 has been characterized for Chryseobacterium indologenes strain 001. With internal primers for the bla gene for IND-1 (bla(IND-1)) and an internal bla(IND-1) probe, PCR amplifications failed, while hybridization results were positive when DNA from another C. indologenes isolate, strain CIP101026, was used as a template. Thus, a bla(IND)-rel...

We consider a multiple-access channel where the users are powered from batteries having nonnegligible internal resistance. When power is drawn from the battery, a variable fraction of the power, which is a function of the power drawn from the battery, is lost across the internal resistance. Hence, the power delivered to the load is less than the power drawn from the battery. The users consume a...

Conventional endotracheal tubes have high intrinsic resistive properties due to their high outer-to-inner diameter ratio. This has significant disadvantages in the treatment of the small neonatal or pediatric patient as work of breathing increases with decreasing internal radius. Diagnostic and therapeutic procedures, including suctioning, may be very difficult in patients with small endotrache...

Extended Abstract The not-invented-here (NIH) syndrome refers to internal resistance in a company against externally developed knowledge. Although previous research has shown that firms can benefit significantly from external knowledge inflows in terms of firm performance and innovativeness such positive effects from external knowledge sourcing cannot be taken for granted. The adaption of exter...

Propagation velocities of action potentials were measured simultaneously along the longitudinal and transverse axes of cardiac fibers in ventricular muscle. The anisotropic distribution of propagation velocities was found to be altered transiently and in the steady state by the rate and pattern of stimulation and by ouabain. The relative amount of velocity change varied with the direction of pr...

Vascular Mechanisms Controlling a Constant Blood Supply to the Brain ("A utor emulation") • The segmental resistance in the major arteries of the brain and the respective smaller cerebral arteries carrying blood from the circle of Willis was computed (with a mathematical method developed recently) using the inlet and outlet pressures of the internal carotid arteries, as well as the venous press...

In this paper an extensive verification of the extraction method (published earlier) that consistently accounts for self-heating and Early effect to accurately extract both base and thermal resistance of bipolar junction transistors is presented. The method verification is demonstrated on advanced RF SiGe HBTs were the extracted results for the thermal resistance are compared with those from an...

The aim of this study was to improve detection of Mycoplasma pneumoniae and Chlamydia pneumoniae in clinical specimens by developing a multiplex real-time PCR assay that includes identification of macrolide-resistant M. pneumoniae. Novel assays targeting a M. pneumoniae conserved hypothetical protein gene, M. pneumoniae 23S rRNA gene mutations associated with macrolide resistance and human β-gl...