Improvements in the processing speed of multipro cessors are outpacing improvements in the speed of disk hardware Parallel disk I O subsystems have been proposed as one way to close the gap between processor and disk speeds Such parallel disk systems require par allel le system software to avoid performance limiting bottlenecks We discuss cache management techniques that can be used in a parall...

Poor statistical correlation was obtained between tube dilution test results and disk test results by using standard procedures. Significant regressions were obtained although they were not linear. Different regressions were obtained with different bacterial species. It is suggested that for the aminoglycosides studied (gentamicin, kanamycin, tobramycin, and sisomicin) both disk and dilution te...

We give a new local test, called a Half-Space Proximal or HSP test, for extracting a sparse directed or undirected subgraph of a given unit disk graph. The HSP neighbors of each vertex are unique, given a fixed underlying unit disk graph. The HSP test is a fully distributed, computationally simple algorithm that is applied independently to each vertex of a unit disk graph. The directed spanner ...

E-test, Vitek 2, MicroScan, agar dilution, and disk diffusion were compared for detection of decreased linezolid susceptibility due to 23S rRNA gene G2576T mutation among 32 clinical Enterococcus strains initially reported as intermediate or resistant by E-test alone or Vitek 2 confirmed by E-test. Agar and broth dilution methods were in concordance with PCR detection of the mutation, and disk ...

Neptunian Trojans (NTs), trans-Neptunian objects in 1:1 mean-motion resonance with Neptune, are generally thought to have been captured from the original protoplanetary disk into co-orbital ice giant during its outward migration. It is possible, therefore, that colour distribution of NTs a constraint on location any transition zones may present disk. In support this possible test, we obtained $...

OBJECTIVE To determine the frequency of methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus and its antimicrobial susceptibility pattern in patients reporting to Combined Military Hospital (CMH), Pano Aqil. STUDY DESIGN A non-interventional, cross-sectional study. PLACE AND DURATION OF STUDY Pathology Laboratory, Combined Military Hospital (CMH), Pano Aqil, from December 2005 to January 2008. MET...

The environmental spread of antibiotic-resistant bacteria has been recognised as a growing public health threat for which hospitals play a significant role. The aims of this study were to investigate the prevalence of antibiotic resistance and antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) in Escherichia coli isolates from hospital wastewater in Vietnam. Wastewater samples before and after treatment were c...

By comparison with agar dilution results, the E test was investigated for the ability to detect high-level aminoglycoside (gentamicin and streptomycin), ampicillin, and vancomycin resistance among strains representing six enterococcal species. For ampicillin and vancomycin, disk diffusion results also were obtained. No false high-level aminoglycoside resistance occurred, and no false gentamicin...

A total of 97 anaerobic bacteria were tested for susceptibility to ampicillin, ampicillin-sulbactam, and amoxicillin-clavulanic acid by broth microdilution and disk elution methods, the results of which were compared with those of the reference agar dilution method. With the broth microdilution method, approximately 95% of MICs were within 1 dilution of those of the reference agar method, with ...

The census of Taurus–Auriga has been assembled over seven decades and inherited the biases and incompleteness of the input studies. The unusual shape of its inferred initial mass function (IMF) and the existence of isolated diskbearing stars suggest that additional (likely disk-free) members remain to be discovered. We therefore have begun a global reassessment of the census of Taurus–Auriga th...