Objective(s):Antibiotic resistance in Acinetobacter baumannii and outbreaks caused by this organism have been reported from several areas of the world. The present study aimed at determining the antibiotic susceptibility profiles and the distribution of OXA-type beta-lactamases among Iranian Acinetobacter baumannii isolates from Qom of Iran. Materials and Methods: For this study, 108 non-duplic...

CONTENTS Introduction __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 128 Overview of the AGWA Tool ____________________________________________________________________________ 129 Hydrologic Models ________________________________________________________________________________________ 132 KINEROS2 _____________________________...

absolute deviation, 15, 29 absolute deviation robust schedule, 27 Absolute Deviation Robust Scheduling Problem, 13, 17, 27 absolute robust single-machine sequence, 16 activity duration, 145, 151 activity network, 143, 146, 154 activity-on-arc network, 143, 149–151 activity-on-node network, 144, 148 agile, 8 agility, 1 almost surely smallest sequence, 8 analytical expression, 94 approximation al...

Previous studies have shown the potent anti-tumor effect of paeonol, a natural compound extracted from traditional Chinese herb medicine. However, therapeutic and underlying mechanisms paeonol in melanoma are largely unknown. Two cell lines (M14 A375) were cultured presence paeonol. Cell proliferation was determined by colony formation cell-counting kit 8 assays. Real-time quantitative reverse ...

Serum sodium and potassium analyses by continuous-flow flame photometry is a well-accepted procedure (1, 2). Recently Habig and Williamson (3) have used the widely available Instrumentation Laboratory Model 143 (IL-143) flame photometer for continuousflow analyses. Pennacchia et al. (4) have operated this flame photometer at rates as high as 120 samples per hour. In both systems the results app...