How and when did your company start, and where are you located? NovaDigm was founded in 2005 by a group of investigators at the los Angeles Biomedical research institute (lA BioMed) and the Division of infectious Diseases at Harbor-UclA Medical center. The company received its first venture capital funding from Domain Associates in 2008 and established its corporate headquarters and laboratory ...

Staphylococcus aureus is an ubiquitous bacterium that is frequently part of the human microflora, causing disease when the immune system becomes compromized. Although S. aureus can be found in different parts of the body, anterior nares are the main ecological reservoir in humans [1]. This versatile pathogen is responsible for a wide variety of diseases, including superficial, systemic and life...

An interconnect joining a source and a sink is divided into xed length uniform width wire segments and some adjacent segments have bu ers in between The problem we considered is to simultaneously size the bu ers and the segments so that the Elmore delay from the source to the sink is minimized Previously no polynomial time al gorithm for the problem has been reported in literature In this paper...

is often still limited by the ill-posedness of the problem being considered. Ill-posedness in general is affected Inverse methods are increasingly used to estimate the hydraulic by nonoptimal experimental design, poor measurement properties of unsaturated soils. The method generally uses a weighted least-squares approach in which numerically simulated data are fitted quality, errors in the assu...

We develop a spatial model for compositional data based on Aitchison s model of multiplicative error structure for proportions An unobservable state proportion vec tor composition is assumed to exist for each sampled location The state compositions may be related through time or space and may also depend on covariates Discrete ob servations are accommodated by a conditional multinomial observat...

Tatiana Gateva-Ivanova, American University in BulgariaNoncommutative Grobner Bases in Skew-polynomial RingsWe study a class of graded standard nitely presented quadratic algebrasA over a xed eld K, called binomial skew polynomial rings. Followinga classical tradition (and recent trend), we take a combinatorial approachto study the algebraic properties of A. Our purpose...

Spatially registered Landsat Thematic Mapper (TM) and SPOT (Systeme Pour I'Observation de la Terre) panchromatic images were merged by combining multiresolution wavelet decomposition components from each, and then reconstructing a merged image using the inverse wavelet transform. Three wavelet merging techniques were compared to the intensityhue-saturation merging technique. The comparison resu...