From 1 January 1997 through 31 December 2000, 2,047 bloodstream infections (BSIs) due to Candida spp. were reported from hospitals in the United States, Canada, Latin America, and Europe participating in the SENTRY Antifungal Surveillance Program. Among individuals in four age groups (< or =1, 2 to 15, 16 to 64, and > or =65 years) Candida albicans was the most common species, causing 60, 55, 5...

In this paper the impact of the base station antenna horizontal beamwidth on radio network capacity in WCDMA cellular networks in the downlink direction is studied. Influence of coverage overlapping and radio propagation environment together with antenna beamwidth are also studied. A radio network planning tool is used to simulate WCDMA macro cellular network performance in urban and suburban a...

The preparation of yttrium metal by the reduction of yttrium trifluoride with calcium is described. Alternate methods employing the formation of a low melting Y-Zn or Y-Mg intermediate alloy are evaluated and data on chemical and microscopic purity of the resulting metal are presented.

BACKGROUND Reports indicate that black patients are less likely than white patients to receive invasive cardiac services after hospitalization for acute myocardial infarction (AMI). There is still uncertainty as to why racial differences exist and how they affect patient outcomes. This is the first study to focus on the availability of invasive cardiac services and racial differences in procedu...

* Correspondence: [email protected]. vn Department of Scientific Fundamentals, Posts and Telecommunications Institute of Technology, Hanoi, Vietnam Full list of author information is available at the end of the article Abstract In this article, we present a new iteration method for finding a common element of the set of fixed points of p strict pseudocontractions and the set of solutions of equili...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study is to describe characteristics of middle-age inpatients' (ages 45-64) fallers and their fall and fall injury risk factors. BACKGROUND Middle-age falls were 42-46% of inpatient falls. Studies related to inpatient falls have not targeted this population. METHODS A 439 retrospective chart review was performed. Middle-age fall and injury rates were compared wit...

Both 1,2,3-triazoles and nucleosides have proved to be useful pharmacophores for antiviral and anticancer agents. A series of novel 1,2,3-triazole nucleoside analogues were designed and synthesized in order to find new antiviral or antitumor compounds. KEYWORD: Triazole; Nucleoside; Virus; Cancer International Conference on Industrial Technology and Management Science (ITMS 2015) © 2015. The au...

A crossbreeding experiment was carried out between two Egyptian strains of chickens namely Mandarah (MM) and ElSalam (SS). The two purebred strains and their reciprocal crosses (MS and SM) were used to estimate the effect of crossing on egg laying and egg quality parameters, direct additive and maternal additive effects as well as heterosis and direct heterosis percentages for studied traits. R...