objective: vancomycin-resistant enterococci (vre) have emerged worldwide and have become an increasing problem in clinical settings. acquired glycopeptide resistance in enterococcus species is due to the acquisition of van a, van b, van d, van c and van e genes, resulting in the production of peptidoglycan precursors with reduced affinity for glycopeptide antibiotics. the origin of these van ge...

We introduce here the Earthquake Network project which implements a world-wide smartphone-based sensor network for the detection of earthquakes. Thanks to the accelerometric sensor, smartphones possibly detect the waves of a quake and report the event to a cloud computing infrastructure. In this work, we propose a solution to the detection problem based on statistical modelling the arrival time...

In 1992, experts at the National Science Foundation Workshop titled "Low-Frequency Electrical Precursors to Earthquakes: Fact or Fiction?" concluded that "seismic electric signals observed in Greece are generated in the Earth, and the apparent correlation with earthquakes is promising" [Park, 1992]. On March 5 and 26,1993, strong earthquakes hit Pirgos City, Greece. Despite heavy damage, there ...

The present work reports the analysis of a possible relationship due to stress transfer between the two earthquakes that hit the province of Van, Eastern Turkey, on October 23, 2011 (Mw = 7.2) and on November 9, 2011 (Mw = 5.6). The surface displacement field of the mainshock has been obtained through a combined data set made up of differential interferograms from COSMO-SkyMed and ENVISAT satel...

The New Madrid seismic zone (NMSZ) in the central United States is one of the most active regions of intraplate seismicity in North America and site of the devastating 1811–1812 earthquake sequence (Nuttli, 1973; Johnston and Schweig, 1996). The NMSZ lies within the NE–SW trending Reelfoot rift (Fig. 1), which represents a failed rift arm that developed during the Late Proterozoic and Early Cam...

Copyright © 2015 CEA& INEA. Published online by NepJOL-INASP. www.nepjol.info/index.php/NJE A massive earthquake hit Nepal in April followed by a strong aftershock in May. The earthquake had an impact in 31 districts out of the 75 districts of the country and total death toll reached 9,000, injured 23,000 and damaged 900,000 houses[1]. Recent global and regional publications have indicated grow...