Molecular typing methods were compared by using 66 ampicillin-resistant, non-beta-lactamase-producing Enterococcus faecium clinical isolates from diverse geographic areas. Whole-plasmid analysis, restriction enzyme analysis of plasmid DNA with EcoRI and HindIII, and contour-clamped homogeneous electric field electrophoresis with digestion by SmaI and ApaI were performed on all isolates. Whole-p...

A 49-year old female presented with severe heart failure with end-organ dysfunction and was placed on veno-arterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) as a bridge to a decision for end-organ recovery. While on ECMO, the patient developed massive haemoptysis after a Swan-Ganz catheter manipulation. The haemoptysis was not controllable by conventional methods including bronchoscopy with c...

Abstract In this study, a new peridynamic Mindlin plate formulation is introduced by utilising Euler-Lagrange equations. The classical strain energy density of material point converted to its corresponding form using Taylor’s expansions. suitable for thick plates considering the transverse shear deformation. Material constants do not have any limitation in current formulation. Different types b...

In this paper, we investigate the effects of non-ideal clamping shapes on the dynamic behavior of silicon nanocantilevers. We fabricated silicon nanocantilevers using silicon on insulator (SOI) wafers by employing stepper ultraviolet (UV) lithography, which permits a resolution of under 100 nm. The nanocantilevers were driven by electrostatic force inside a scanning electron microscope (SEM). B...

Femoral vessels are the most used peripheral vessels for veno-arterial Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO) support in adults and older children. They are easily harvested and are associated with a low incidence of neurological events. In order to reduce bleeding and infection, the percutaneous technique is usually preferred to the open technique. Nevertheless this is associated to possib...

For statically indeterminate rod structures with excess constraints in the horizontal direction, tension forces arise under transverse loading, significantly affecting stress-strain state of rods compared to similar caused by bending alone (in absence longitudinal constraints). This fact requires computational analysis, and this work, analytical dependencies deflection magnitude due loading wer...

OBJECTIVE Women exhibit exaggerated renal hemodynamic responses to hyperglycemia, which may promote kidney disease progression. Our aim was to determine if increased nitric oxide generation by l-arginine infusion would reverse this deleterious response to clamped hyperglycemia in women with type 1 diabetes mellitus. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS Renal function, blood pressure, and plasma cyclic...

OBJECTIVE We have reported that renal hyperfiltration is associated with endothelial dysfunction in early type 1 diabetes. However, the relationship between renal hyperfiltration and arterial stiffness is unknown. Accordingly, we measured arterial stiffness in type 1 diabetic subjects with hyperfiltering (n = 20) or normofiltering (n = 18). RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS Augmentation index (AIx)...

Analytical relations between the critical buckling load of a functionally graded material (FGM) Timoshenko beam and that of the corresponding homogeneous Euler–Bernoulli beam subjected to axial compressive load have been derived for clamped–clamped (C–C), simply supported–simply supported (S–S) and clamped–free (C–F) edges. However, no such relation is found for clamped–simply supported (C–S) b...