BACKGROUND Emergence of resistance to respective antifungal drugs is a primary concern for the treatment of candidiasis. Hence, determining antifungal susceptibility of the isolated yeasts is of special importance for effective therapy. For this purpose, the clinical laboratory standard institute (CLSI) has introduced a broth microdilution method to determine minimum inhibitory concentration (M...

The dual-frequency altimeter of Topex allows since few years the observations of earth from 62°N to 62°S both in Ku and in C band. Previous works has been already performed above continental areas by [1, 2, 3, 4] and above the southern part of the Greenland ice sheet [5, 6]. These works show the great interest of a dual-frequency above both for the retrieval of some geophysical parameters and f...

Direct numerical simulations were performed to study the effect of an elastically mounted trailing edge actuator on the unsteady flow over a plunging, thin airfoil at Reynolds number of 14700 based on the chord length. The goal is to investigate potential benefits of flow-induced passive actuation of the trailing edge to the lift and drag characteristics of flapping MAV wings. The trailing edge...

Kinematic synthesis of a trailing six-member mechanism has been carried out to achieve five precision points of an automotive steering mechanism. The inner wheel can be rotated up to forty five degrees with fair accuracy. Results show that the divergent end behavior of Ackermann Steering Mechanism has been overcome by the present mechanism. The work is similar to earlier work by the present ...

The effect of the tip gap size on the performance of a multistage axial compressor was studied by means of computational fluid dynamics (CFD). It was found that the performance of the compressor was very sensitive to the size of the tip gap. By increasing the gap size, the stall margin value, the total pressure ratio and the compressor efficiency reduced considerably. The flow field at the tip ...

Direct numerical simulation is used to study the effect of crossflow on the dynamics, entrainment and mixing characteristics of vortex rings issuing from a circular nozzle. Three distinct regimes exist, depending on the velocity ratio (ratio of the average nozzle exit velocity to free-stream crossflow velocity) and stroke ratio (ratio of stroke length to nozzle exit diameter). Coherent vortex r...

-Two sets of higher order equivalent edge currents are introduced which, in combination, account for the first-, the second-, and part of the third-order edge diffraction caused by the fringe wave surface current induced on a perfectly conducting polygonal plate in a radar scattering configuration. The first set represents the fringe wave surface current excited by the incident plane wave at th...

A simple model to summarize the precedence effect is proposed that uses a single metric to quantify the relative dominance of the initial interaural delay over the trailing interaural delay in lateralization. This model is described and then used to relate new measurements of the precedence effect made with adjustment and discrimination paradigms. In the adjustment task, subjects matched the la...

Migration and gender studies have focused on economically active heterogeneous couples and traditionally highlight a dominant male role in migration decision-making. The female partner is commonly portrayed as a ‘trailing wife’ or ‘trailing mother’ with the move found to have a negative effect on her employment prospects. Much less is known about if or how the balance of power shifts between hu...

A streamlined flat plate (herein ‘aerofoil’) containing a small rectangular cavity on one side was experimentally found to produce aerofoil tones (rather than cavity tones) under certain flow conditions. To clarify the responsible mechanism, the effect of sinusoidal acoustic forcing on the boundary layer was investigated by placing a loudspeaker downstream of the aerofoil. Velocity fluctuations...