Antibiotic-resistant strains of pathogenic bacteria have always been an issue, but in recent times the need for new antimicro-bial treatments has never been more serious. Resistance is on the rise, while antibiotic discovery and development are on the decline [1]. The urge for new treatment modalities that go beyond antibiotics is clearly illustrated in the care of patients with chronic granulo...

Carbon source utilization tests based on the reducdefining a coloration threshold for positive controls tion of a tetrazolium dye were developed for the or a certain average absorption value improves identification of bacteria [1]. Since Garland and reproducibility, but which threshold gives the best Mills [2] first used such Biolog (Hayward, Ca., resolution? It was also proposed to determine ...

An experiment was conducted to deter­ mine apparent total tract digestibility (ATTD) and standardized total tract digestibility (STTD) by grow­ ing pigs of P in canola meal, 00­rapeseed meal, and 00­rapeseed expellers. Canola meal and 00­rapeseed meal are the coproducts produced after the residual oil has been solvent extracted from the prepressed canola seeds and 00­rapeseeds, respectively, wh...

in this paper, we use modified laplace decomposition method to solving initial value problems (ivp) of the second order ordinary differential equations. theproposed method can be applied to linear and nonlinearproblems

condition monitoring of bldc motors due to their important applications is gaining more and more significance. rotor eccentricity is one of the most important sources of faults in these motors. up to now, detection methods of this fault under nonstationary conditions are limited to complicated and time-consuming methods using wavelets and cohen class algorithms which are difficult to implement ...

in this article we study steensen method to solve nonlinear matrix equation x+a^t x^(-1) a=q, when a is a normal matrix. we establish some conditions that generate a sequence of positive denite matrices which converges to solution of this equation.

background: reference charts are widely used in healthcare as a screening tool. this study aimed to produce reference growth charts for school children from west malaysia in comparison with the united states centers for disease control and prevention (cdc) chart. methods: a total of 14,360 school children ranging from 7 to 17 years old from six states in west malaysia were collected. a two-stag...

introduction : due to the importance of laser light penetration and propagation in biological tissues, many researchers have proposed several numerical methods such as monte carlo, finite element and green function methods. among them, the monte carlo method is an accurate method which can be applied for different tissues. however, because of its statistical nature, monte carlo simulation requi...

sandwich sheet rolling process is investigated using an analytical method (slab method) and a numerical method (finite element method). the horizontal stress distribution in the layers, the rolling pressure along the contact interface and the neutral point between the roll and the sheet are investigated. then the affects of the parameters such as the friction between the sheet and the roll, she...