OBJECTIVE To determine whether eating Lactobacillus rhamnosus GG (LGG) in the form of commercially available yoghurt improves clearance of vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE). DESIGN Double-blind, randomised, placebo-controlled trial. SETTING Renal ward of Austin Health, a tertiary hospital, Feb-Oct 2005. PARTICIPANTS 27 VRE-positive patients, 14 receiving active treatment and 13 contr...

Open dumping and landfilling are the prevalent solid waste disposal practices in Thailand. Surveys on the disposal sites revealed the presence of 95 landfills and 330 open dumps. Methane emission potential at these sites was estimated by three methods. Results of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) method, Landfill Gas Emission model (LandGEM), and closed flux chamber technique...

We study a large deviation functional of density fluctuation by analyzing stochastic non-linear diffusion equations driven by the difference between the densities fixed at the boundaries. By using a fundamental equality that yields the fluctuation theorem, we first relate the large deviation functional with a minimization problem. We then develop a perturbation method for solving the problem. I...

The kinetic method is applied to differentiate and quantify mixtures of isomeric tripeptides by generating and mass-selecting alkali metal ion-bound dimeric clusters and examining their competitive dissociations in an ion trap mass spectrometer. This methodology readily distinguishes the pairs of isomers examined here: ( -A)GG/( -A)GG, G( -A)G/G( -A)G, and GG( -A)/GG( -A). The isomeric selectiv...

BACKGROUND Using local anesthetic is common to control the pain through blocking the nerve reversibly in dental procedures. Gow-Gates (GG) technique has a high success rate but less common. This study aimed to compare the onset time and success rate in GG and standard technique of inferior alveolar nerve block (IANB). STUDY DESIGN This descriptive, single blind study was consisted of 136 pati...

in this work g'/g-expansion method has been employed to solve (2+1)-dimensional dispersive long wave equation. it is shown that g'/g-expansion method, with the help of symbolic computation, provides a very effective and powerful mathematical tool, for solving this equation.

in the present work‎, ‎a new stochastic algorithm is proposed to solve multiple dimensional fredholm integral equations of the second kind‎. ‎the solution of the‎ integral equation is described by the neumann series expansion‎. ‎each term of this expansion can be considered as an expectation which is approximated by a continuous markov chain monte carlo method‎. ‎an algorithm is proposed to sim...

A bifunctional probe (FecNC), containing a recognition part and an electrochemical active center, was applied to electrochemical detection of GG mismatch duplexes. The preparation of gold electrodes modified by mismatch and complementatry duplexes was characterized by electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) and optimized for better detection in terms of self-assembly time, hybridization ti...

In this paper, a new despeckling method based on undecimated wavelet decomposition and maximum a posteriori (MAP) estimation is proposed. Such a method relies on the assumption that the probability density function (PDF) of each wavelet coefficient is generalized Gaussian (GG). The major novelty of the proposed approach is that the parameters of the GG PDF are taken to be space-varying within e...

We show that for a given holomorphic noncharacteristic surface S ∈ C, and a given holomorphic function on S, there exists a unique meromorphic solution of Burgers’ equation which blows up on S. This proves the convergence of the formal Laurent series expansion found by the Painlevé test. The method used is an adaptation of Nirenberg’s iterative proof of the abstract Cauchy-Kowalevski theorem. A...