The objective of this study was to evaluate the clinical characteristics and outcomes of hospitalized patients tested for Clostridium difficile and determine the correlation between pretest probability for C. difficile infection (CDI) and assay results. Patients with testing ordered for C. difficile were enrolled and assigned a high, medium, or low pretest probability of CDI based on clinical e...

MANET has been gaining the popularity because of its ease of implementation. One of the major elements in MANET is routing protocol, which consists of two main protocols: proactive and reactive routing protocols. In this work, we focus on proactive protocol called OLSR (Optimize Link State Routing Protocol), where the routes are always maintained by interchanging control overhead, namely HELLO ...

To determine the nature of binding of transcobalamin II (TC-II) to liver cells, we covalently coupled purified holo-TC-II to submicron latex minibeads using glutaraldehyde. Incubation of the probe with liver cell suspensions at 4 degrees C led to its binding by endothelial cells but not by hepatocytes or Kupffer cells, as visualized by scanning electron microscopy. At 37 degrees C, the probe wa...

Steady state natural convection of Al2O3-water nanofluid inside a square cavity filled with a porous medium is investigated numerically. The temperatures of the two side walls of the cavity are maintained at TH and TC, where TC has been considered as the reference condition. The top and the bottom horizontal walls have been considered to be insulated i.e., non-conducting and impermeable to mass...

O presente artigo discute a presença do corpo na poesia da portuguesa Judith Teixeira, não apenas como manifestação estética, mas, principalmente, forma de resistência e insurreição. Em um momento conservador história Portugal em meio ao turbilhão provocado pela geração Orpheu, o literário português, predominantemente masculino, aceitou bem poetisas que correspondessem, sua escrita, modelo mulh...

In this Paper, we focus on proactive protocol called OLSR (Optimize Link State Routing Protocol), where the routes are always maintained by interchanging control overhead, namely HELLO and TC (Topology Control) messages. However, the resource is very wasteful and this causes the performance degradation. We propose the method to reduce the control overhead while maintaining the throughput of OLS...

Atherosclerosis is a chronic inflammatory disease. Cardiovascular risk factors such as hyperglycemia, hyperlipidemia, and arterial hypertension induce endothelial dysfunction with alterations in endothelial biosecretion and immune behavior. The aim of this study is to elucidate whether glucose-induced modifications of endothelial biosecretory and immune functions are regulated by interactions o...

In the hadronic sector of relativistic heavy ion physics, the ρ ⇆ 2π reaction is the strongest one, strong enough to equilibrate the ρ with the pions throughout the region from chemical freezeout to thermal freezeout when free-particle interactions (with no medium-dependent effects) are employed. Above the chiral restoration temperature, only ρ’s and π’s are present, in that the chirally restor...

Citation: Patrício J, Little S, Mazik K, Papadopoulou K-N, Smith CJ, Teixeira H, Hoffmann H, Uyarra MC, Solaun O, Zenetos A, Kaboglu G, Kryvenko O, Churilova T, Moncheva S, Bučas M, Borja A, Hoepffner N and Elliott M (2016) European Marine Biodiversity Monitoring Networks: Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats. Front. Mar. Sci. 3:161. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2016.00161 European Marine Bio...

The emergence of the laws of thermodynamics from the laws of quantum mechanics is an unresolved issue. The generation of the third law of thermodynamics from quantum dynamics is analysed. The scaling of the optimal cooling power of a reciprocating quantum refrigerator is sought as a function of the cold bath temperature as Tc → 0. The working medium consists of noninteracting particles in a har...