An electronic sepsis surveillance system (ESSV) was developed to identify severe sepsis and determine its time of onset. ESSV sensitivity and specificity were evaluated during an 11-day prospective pilot and a 30-day retrospective trial. ESSV diagnostic alerts were compared with care team diagnoses and with administrative records, using expert adjudication as the standard for comparison. ESSV w...

Lattice basis reduction in combination with an efficient backtracking algorithm is used to find all (4 996 426) simple 7(33,8,10) designs with automorphism group PΓL(2,32). The paper contains a short description of the algorithm.

Between 1991 and 1993, the intestinal contents and feces of wild animals in Japan were examined for the presence of Listeria. The wild animals examined included 623 mammals (11 species) and 996 birds (18 species). Listeria species were isolated from 38 (6.1%) of the 623 mammalian samples and 133 (13.4%) of 996 bird samples. The highest incidence of Listeria in the mammals was found in Japanese ...

Abstract The paper reports the main contents of guidelines developed in framework project ANCHOR, acronym Advanced Noise Control strategies HarbOuR, which is a European Project funded as part announcement Life 2017. represent an updated version those elaborated NoMEPorts named ‘Good Practice Guide on Port Area Mapping and Management’; aim to define common approach port noise monitoring assessme...

Bacterial endophytes do have several potential applications in pharmacy, medicine and agricultural biotech industry. The main objective of this study was to understand types of bacterial endophytes associated with dicotyledonous (dicot) and monocotyledonous (monocot) plant species. Isolation of the endophytic bacteria was performed using surface-sterilized various tissue samples, and identifica...

Excessive, wasted water has prompted the creation of the Top 10 Water Challenges of Nebraska [1]. 70% of the world’s water usage is related to agriculture [7], more efficient irrigation solutions promise a large benefit for farmers, consumers and the environment. Through a USGS grant, the Cyber-Physical Networking Lab at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln has pledged to complete an autonomous i...