__________________________________________________________________________ Introduction: People spend about 90% of their time indoors. Most health problems associated with indoor air quality are caused by fungi. It is estimated fungi account for 70% of total indoor air microbial pollution. Purpose: To analyze fungal pathogens isolated from indoor air of Branicki Palace in Białystok, Poland Mate...

The number of patients attending genitourinary medicine (GUM) clinics in Britain has risen greatly in recent years. In contrast there have been very modest increases in staff and there are no data on accommodation or facilities. The Department of Health therefore set up a team to provide guidance on the planning and design of GUM clinics. After a survey the team concluded that GUM clinics in En...

BACKGROUND We have found clusters of Klebsiella pneumoniae with OXA48-carbepenemase cases in some hospital rooms, and decided to investigate whether bathroom siphons could be a reservoir for OXA48 bacteria, as occurs with K. oxytoca with other types of carbepenemases. METHODS We evaluated the microbial competition between strains with OXA48 and VIM carbepenemases, in diluted nutrient-broth, o...

Puerperal mastitis is a potentially serious illness among lactating women which traditionally has been thought to be associated with primiparity, stress, improper nursing technique, and incomplete emptying of the breast. However, none of these putative associations has been examined analytically in recent years. Further, the incidence of mastitis in the United States has not been estimated sinc...

While advances in CAD modeling techniques led to an ever increasing number of available architectural 3D models, reusability of these models as templates or as inspiration sources is still very limited. One reason for this is that there exist basically no shape retrieval methods specialized in the architectural domain. In this work, we therefore present a method to efficiently characterize 3D a...

in this paper, we propose a new approach for ranking all fuzzynumbers based on revising the ranking method proposed by ezzati et al. cite{ezzati}.to this end, we present and investigate some properties of the proposed approach indetails. finally, to illustrate the advantage of the proposed method, it is applied to several groups of fuzzy numbers and the results are compared with other related a...

This article reports how strongly boundary roughness predicts impressions of spaciousness. In one experiment, 16 rooms with fractal walls were created in CAD simulations and 49 respondents rated the rooms in terms of spaciousness. In a second experiment, 16 respondents rated spaciousness for an additional 12 rooms with different wall systems. Fractal rooms with rough walls were judged as being ...

Uncertainty-based multi camera calibration from relative poses can basically be applied to multi camera systems in which some camera pairs do not have a common field of view. However, there are limitations to this method. In practice, the uncertainty measures are not perfect and sometimes fail to assign a high uncertainty to invalid relative pose estimates. We hence suggest using a specialized ...