INTRODUCTION Vancomycin (VAN) failures associated with the treatment of complicated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infections have been well described. The reported "seesaw effect" demonstrates improved β-lactam activity when VAN and/or daptomycin (DAP) susceptibility decreases. However, there are minimal data comparing ceftaroline (CPT) susceptibility with these agents or t...

The Text Encoding Initiative is an international and interdisciplinary standards project established in 1987 to develop, maintain and promulgate hardwareand software-independent methods for encoding humanities data in electronic form. Initially the TEI was jointly sponsored by three established international professional associations (the Association for Computers and the Humanities, the Associ...

OBJECTIVE The cardiovascular system maintains homeostasis through a series of adaptive responses to physiological requirements. However, little is known about the adaptation of fetal cardiac function to gravity, according to gestational age. In the present study, we aimed to evaluate the adaptive responses of cardiac function to postural changes, using Tei index measurements. METHODS Fetal ec...

As the demand for ultra-low-power (ULP) devices has increased tremendously, system-on-chip (SoC) designs based on ultra-low-voltage (ULV) operation have been receiving great attention. Moreover, research shown remarkable potential that even more power savings can be achieved in ULV SoCs by exploiting temperature effect inversion (TEI) phenomenon, i.e., delay of decreases with increasing tempera...

OBJECTIVE To investigate association between the Tei index and cardiac complications of ST elevation of Myocardial Infarction. PATIENTS AND METHODS A total of a 202 adult consecutive patients with first ST elevation MI (STEMI) were studied. Tei index was obtained as: (a _ b)/b, where "a" is the interval between the cessation and onset of mitral flow and "b" is the ejection time of aortic flow...

The aim of this study was to evaluate the clinical utility of appetite sensations to characterize individual overall energy intake. A group of men (n 28) and women (n 23) was recruited to record their 'desire to eat', 'hunger', 'fullness' and 'prospective food consumption' (PFC) on visual analogue scales before a standardized meal test, immediately after and every 10 min for a period of 1 h aft...

The Text Encoding Initiative (TEI), established in 1987, has been the largest effort in the area of standardisation of computer encoding of language resources. TEI chose SGML (Standard Generalized Markup Language) as its underlying standard, and in the years before the inception of XML, a number of projects encoded their data according to some SGML DTD, TEI compliant, or otherwise. These projec...

This project report details the goals and development of the TEI Archiving, Publishing, and Access Service (TAPAS). The project's mission centers on providing repository and publicationservices to individuals and small projects working with TEI data: a constituency that typically lacks access to institutional resources such as server space, XML expertise, and programming time. In developing...

BACKGROUND The Tei index simultaneously evaluates the ventricular systolic and diastolic functions. It has a good correlation with hemodynamic data and has enabled the detection of initial ventricular function alterations of different etiologies. OBJECTIVE To study initial biventricular function alterations in chagasic patients with no apparent heart disease, using the Tei index. METHODS Fo...

The largest effort in the area of standardisation of computer encoding of language resources has been the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI), established in 1987. TEI chose as its underlying standard SGML (Standard Generalized Markup Language), and in the years before the inception of XML, a number of projects encoded their data according to some SGML DTD, TEI compliant, or otherwise. These project...