resistance to oxyimino cephalosporins antibiotics in enterobacteriaceae is primarily done by the extended spectrum β-lactamases (esbls). clear identification of risk factors for esbl-producing infections is necessary. therefore, efficient strategies can be developed to decrease outbreak of these infections. the aim of this study was to determine the antibacterial susceptibility and esbls patter...

Qualifying types represent a new approach to modifying the behaviour of instances of other types in a general way, in the form of components which can be designed and implemented without a prior knowledge of the types to be modified or their implementations. This paper illustrates the idea by showing how they can be used to program various standard synchronisation problems, including mutual exc...

Industry cluster and supply chain are in focus of every countries which rely on knowledge-based economy. Both focus on improving the competitiveness of firm in the industry in the different aspect. This paper tries to illustrate how the industry cluster can increase the supply chain performance. Then, the proposed methodology concentrates on the collaboration and knowledge exchange in supply ch...

The authors explore Massively Multiplayer Online Games (MMOG) business models in order to characterize two main problems: big initial investment and continuous expenditures. The four main actors of a MMOG environment – game producer, Game, Players and Business Model – are analysed resorting to Actor Network Theory in order to understand their alignment in Business Models and how they can influe...

This study generates Watts’s (2003a) asymmetric verification concept of conservatism endogenously, using evolutionary biology as a foundation. A producer has diminishing marginal returns to output and is thus risk averse in gains. After production, the producer faces a stealer who seeks to expropriate the output. The producer, for fear of being perceived as weak, will never share his output wit...

tions. Even though soybean prices across the U.S. Risk-efficient portfolios from a subset of markettend to move together, the magnitude of price ing strategies were identified using Target MOTAD. changes varies across production areas due to differPortfolios were generated for Illinois, Arkansas, and ing regional production and marketing characterisSouth Carolina to determine whether regional p...