We report a case of cryptococcosis due to C. gattii which appears to have been acquired in the Puget Sound region, Washington State. Genotyping confirmed identity to the predominant Vancouver Island genotype. This is the first documented case of human disease by the major Vancouver Island emergence strain acquired within the United States.

The purpose of this study was to investigate the intra-familial relationships between parental reports of feeding practices used with siblings in the same family, and to evaluate whether differences in feeding practices are related to differences in siblings' eating behaviours. Eighty parents of two sibling children completed measures assessing their feeding practices and child eating behaviour...

Based on the Chinese IPO book building mechanism as the background, the paper chooses the market-oriented period (from November,2010 to April,2012) of the IPOs as the samples, and studies the relationship between the collusive behavior, institutional investors’ bidding behavior and underwriters’ pricing strategy(as well as the post-IPO performance). The results show that: Firstly, in the case o...

When two speech signals are mixed in a single channel the voiced parts of any of them remain mostly unaltered during the voicing interruptions of the other, i.e. pauses and voiceless consonants. The mixture is made of 3 types of multivoiced segments noted 0V (unvoiced), 1V (one voicing) and 2V (two voicings). A statistical study of readaloud texts reveals that total time spent in the 1V state i...

Accurately predicting customer preferences is a highly sought after goal, for it allows businesses to market a product to individuals in a way that is most likely to generate a sale. This can be particularly important in the movie industry, where individual preferences can vary greatly. Recognizing this, the online movie rental business Netflix has sponsored a contest to find better ways of mak...

We explore the duality of construction and deconstruction in the presence of different evaluation strategies. We characterize an evaluation strategy by the notion of substitutability, given by defining what is a value and a co-value, and we present an equational theory that takes the strategy as a parameter. The theory may be extended with new logical connectives, in the form of user-defined da...

We address the problem of reconstructing a non-duplicated ancestor to a partially duplicated genome in a model where duplicated content is caused by several tandem duplications throughout its evolution and the only allowed rearrangement operations are DCJ. As a starting point, we consider a variant of the Genome Halving Problem, aiming at reconstructing a tandem duplicated genome instead of the...