BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES The global spread of methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) constitutes one of the most serious contemporary challenges to the treatment of hospital-acquired infections. We aimed to screen and assess the antibiotic susceptibility pattern of Staphylococcus aureus isolated from clinical specimens in local hospitals of Northern province in Jordan. MATERIALS ...

In a stereo image pair, the fundamental matrix encodes the rigidity constraint of the scene. It combines the internal parameters of both cameras (which can be the same) and their relative position and orientation. It associates to image points in one view the so-called epipolar line in the other view, which is the locus of projection of the same 3D point, whose particular position on the straig...

Five aromatic hydrocarbons (benzene, toluene, and three isomeric xylenes) were monitored in indoor and outdoor air of 7 public buildings and 54 private homes, located in Barcelona City metropolitan area and in several rural areas of Catalonia. The sampling was carried out over four periods: spring-summer and winter of 2000, and summer and winter of 2001. Passive ORSA 5 Dräger samplers were used...

Flow control has been studied since the early stages of research in telecommunication networks. In these early studies the term ow control has been used to describe almost any type of network control. With the rapid growth of telecommunication networks control and management, ow control has evolved as a distinct class of algorithms and substantial research e ort has been devoted to its study. A...

A 50th anniversary issue of Operations Research would be incomplete without a retrospective look at the remarkable contributions of Philip McCord Morse to the establishment of operations research as a field and the starting of the journal. Professor Morse (1903–1985) was a distinguished physicist, a World War II pioneer in operations research, and the first president of the Operations Research ...

OBJECTIVES There is a paucity of data on methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) epidemiology among Balkan countries. The aim of our study was to determine the prevalence of nasal and pharyngeal carriages and diversity of MRSA among patients and healthcare workers (HCWs) in the major referral centre in Serbia, and to evaluate performance of three different media for MRSA screening. ...

The SURF method (Speeded Up Robust Features) is a fast and robust algorithm for local, similarity invariant representation and comparison of images. Similarly to many other local descriptor-based approaches, interest points of a given image are defined as salient features from a scale-invariant representation. Such a multiple-scale analysis is provided by the convolution of the initial image wi...

Electronic commerce has opened new opportunities for buyers and sellers. Consumers can do things in an on-line environment that are simply not possible in face-to-face transactions. In this paper we push this observation by examining and using a new type of software agent to convert merchant interfaces into middleware thus enabling one to assess and optimize their interactions with all the comp...