Determinants of multidrug resistance (MDR) are often encoded on mobile elements, such as plasmids, transposons, and integrons, which have the potential to transfer among foodborne pathogens, as well as to other virulent pathogens, increasing the threats these traits pose to human and veterinary health. Our understanding of MDR among Salmonella has been limited by the lack of closed plasmid geno...

In this paper, we describe Inca, an adap-tive, advisable assistant for crisis response. The system lets users guide the search toward particular schedules by giving high-level, operational advice about the solutions desired. Because traces of user interactions provide information regarding the user's preferences among schedules, Inca can draw on machine learning techniques to construct user mod...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to highlight the partial results of the first project on Integrative Oncology in Brazil, which is being put into practice at the Clinics Hospital of the University of Campinas (HC/Unicamp). The majority of the Brazilian population uses the public National Health System (SUS) and one of its units, the National Institute for Cancer (INCA), administers cancer t...

The bee genus Mirnapis is revised. Mirnapis ohloweni Packer and Dumesh new species, is described from East of Nazca, Peru and compared to both sexes of the type species, M. inca Urban, based upon material from northern Chile. Thus, the female of the genus is described for the first time. Both sexes of both species are illustrated and variation in some important characteristics noted. The new ma...

Selena Montinaro, Alessandro Concas, Massimo Pisu, Sarah Fadda, Alberto Cincotti and Giacomo Cao Centro Interdipartimentale di Ingegneria e Scienze Ambientali (CINSA) and Cagliari Laboratory of Consorzio Interuniversitario Nazionale “La Chimica per l’Ambiente” (INCA), Via San Giorgio 12, 09123 Cagliari, Italy. CRS4, Center for Advanced Studies, Research and Developement in Sardinia Parco Scient...

This contribution brings to a close a special issue of Hydrology and Earth System Sciences concerning the assessment of nitrogen dynamics in catchments across Europe within a semi-distributed Integrated Nitrogen model for multiple source assessment in Catchments (INCA). The wide range of issues involved in relation to hydrology and within-catchment processes, scale (from small catchments to maj...

Sequencing of pJIE512b, a 92.3-kb IncI1 sequence type 2 (ST2) plasmid carrying bla(CMY-2), revealed a bla(CMY-2) context that appeared to have been mobilized from an IncA/C plasmid by the insertion sequence IS1294. A comparison with published plasmids suggests that bla(CMY-2) has been mobilized from IncA/C to IncI1 plasmids more than once by IS1294-like elements. Alignment of pJIE512b with the ...