Lecture 4 on Safety & Contracts demonstrated how useful and crucial CPS contracts are for CPS. Their role and understanding goes beyond dynamic testing, though. In CPS, proven CPS contracts are infinitely more valuable than dynamically tested contracts, because dynamical tests of contracts at runtime of a CPS generally leave open very little flexibility for reacting to them in any safe way. Aft...

Enterococci possess capsular carbohydrate antigens that are targets of opsonic antibodies. These antigens may be used to develop alternative options for the treatment and prevention of enterococcal infections. The present study was done to analyze the diversity of capsular polysaccharides in Enterococcus faecalis. Four type-specific sera were used in an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay format ...

INTRODUCTION Concurrent partnerships (CPs) have been suggested as a risk factor for transmitting HIV, but their impact on the epidemic depends upon how prevalent they are in populations, the average number of CPs an individual has and the length of time they overlap. However, estimates of prevalence of CPs in Southern Africa vary widely, and the duration of overlap in these relationships is poo...

A total of 79 capsular types have been reported in Klebsiella spp., whereas capsular polysaccharide synthesis (cps) regions were available in only 22 types. Due to the limitations of serotyping, complete repertoire of cps will be helpful for capsular genotyping. We therefore resolved the rest 57 cps and conducted comparative analysis. Clustering results of 1,515 predicted proteins from cps loci...

Continuation-passing style (CPS) is often criticized to be more expensive than the usual direct style of functional programming. By structure, CPS functions indeed are passed one extra argument (the continuation), and each intermediate result indeed occurs in a function call (to the continuation). As higher-order functions, continuations are also more expensive. However, by structure also, CPS ...

BACKGROUND Although platinum-based chemotherapy is the most effective strategy for esophageal cancer, toxicity and drug resistance limit the dose administration and the application of chemotherapy. Capilliposide C (CPS-C) is isolated from the Chinese herb Lysimachia capillipes Hemsl and is approved to be effective against carcinomas. However, the activity of CPS-C against esophageal cancer rema...

An audience response system (ARS) was used to integrate a nursing classroom with technology. ARS can both engage students and provide immediate feedback. Students (n=60) enrolled in an introductory professional nursing course at a Southeastern U.S. university evaluated ARS use for testing. Literature on ARS use in nursing education is limited, thus the need to determine nursing students’ percep...

Chlorpyrifos (CPS) is a widely used diethyl organophosphorus insecticide in agricultural settings. Household and urinary residue analysis has suggested that children in agricultural communities are at risk of exposure to diethyl organophosphorus insecticides. The effects of repeated postnatal exposure to CPS and its metabolite chlorpyrifos-oxon (CPO) on total muscarinic acetylcholine receptor (...

OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to clarify consumer providers (CPs) subjective experiences as members of a psychiatric multidisciplinary outreach team that provided services to individuals with a mental illness living in the community. METHODS A qualitative descriptive study was conducted through semi-structured interviews. Participants were clients hired as CPs in the Japanese Outr...