The global burden of bacterial infections is very high and has been exacerbated by increasing resistance to multiple antibiotics. Antibiotic resistance leads to failed treatment of infections, which can ultimately lead to death. To overcome antibiotic resistance, it is necessary to identify new antibacterial agents. In this study, a total of 662 plant extracts (diverse parts) from 222 plant spe...

En Afrique tropicale, dans les plantations forestières, la majorité des espèces autochtones ont été délaissées au profit d’espèces exotiques à croissance initiale rapide. Cette tendance est encore plus marquée zones soudanienne et soudano-guinéenne longue saison sèche. Ainsi s’explique le manque de connaissances sur potentialités sylviculture d’arbres ou « locales ». Pour contribuer l’acquisiti...

This paper tackles the nurse scheduling problem with balanced preference satisfaction which consists of generating an assignment of shifts to nurses over a given time horizon and ensuring that the satisfaction of nurses’ personal preferences for shifts is as even as possible in order to ensure fairness. We propose a heuristic algorithm based on successive resolutions of the bottleneck assignmen...

BACKGROUND Atakora mountains in Benin are a unique but fragile ecosystem, harboring many endemic plant species. The ecosystem is undergoing degradation, and the woody vegetation is dramatically declining due to high anthropogenic actions and recurrent drought. This study aimed to (i) assess the diversity of threatened woody species and (ii) identify their potential substitutes in the three regi...

This paper addresses the relations between travel behaviour and land use patterns using a Structural Equations Modelling (SEM) framework. SEM is a multi equation technique which is particularly suited for the study of complex relations, since it allows modelling the effects of land use patterns on travel behaviour while controlling for self selection bias and effects between endogenous variable...

Omar I Abboud, MD, FRCP Sharon Adler, MD, FASN Rajiv Agarwal, MD Sharon P Andreoli, MD Gavin J Becker, MD, FRACP Fred Brown, MBA, FACHE Daniel C Cattran, MD, FRCPC Allan J Collins, MD, FACP Rosanna Coppo, MD Josef Coresh, MD, PhD Ricardo Correa-Rotter, MD Adrian Covic, MD, PhD Jonathan C Craig, MBChB, MM (Clin Epi), DCH, FRACP, PhD Angel de Francisco, MD Paul de Jong, MD, PhD Ana Figueiredo, RN...

Robson Luis Amorim, Almir Ferreira de Andrade, Gabriel S. Gattás, Wellingson Silva Paiva, Decompressive Craniectomy Improved Hemodynamic Parameters in Middle Cerebral Artery Infarction After Print ISSN: 0039-2499. Online ISSN: 1524-4628 Copyright © 2014 American Heart Association, Inc. All rights reserved. is published by the American Heart Association, 7272 Greenville Avenue, Dallas, TX 75231 ...

This paper describes an experimental program that deals with retrofitting of infill un-reinforced masonry walls (URM) with Fiber Reinforced Polymer (FRP). The primary objective of this research is to develop a retrofit strategy that while economical will minimize the influence of the retrofit on the overall performance of structural frames in predominant seismic regions. Allowing some damage to...