BACKGROUND Macrolide-resistant isolates of Rhodococcus equi are emerging, prompting the search for clinically effective alternative antimicrobials. HYPOTHESIS The proportion of foals with ultrasonographic evidence of pneumonia presumed to be caused by R. equi that had a successful outcome when administered gallium maltolate (GaM) PO would not be more than 10% inferior (ie, lower) than that of...

Powerful CASE tools for Aspect Oriented System (AOS) are useful to improve the developer productivity and ensure syntactical correctness of the AOS model for effective system design. This paper has proposed a systematic approach to develop CASE tool for graph semantic based AOS model called, GAM, using meta-configurable environment called, Generic Modeling Environment (GME). Graph – semantic ba...

An Tostal, Notre D am e’s annual spring festival sponsored by the Hall P res iden t’s Council, ended yesterday , concluding the weeklong celebration. John Rooney, An Tostal chairm an, te rm ed the event “ a g rea t success .” Frivolous F riday’s events in­ cluded the Jello Toss, which was won by Dillon residen ts J .P . Madigan and Lou B ridges. Fifteen people m anaged to erect a hum an pyram i...

Drought and conflict in the Horn of Africa are causing population displacement, increasing risks of child mortality and malnutrition. Humanitarian agencies are trying to mitigate the impact, with limited resources. Data from previous years may help guide decisions. Trends in different populations affected by displacement (1997-2009) were analyzed to investigate: (1) how elevated malnutrition an...

The distributed lag effect of ambient particulate air pollution that can be attributed to all cause mortality in Kathmandu valley, Nepal is estimated through generalized linear model (GLM) and generalized additive model (GAM) with autoregressive count dependent variable. Models are based upon daily time series data on mortality collected from the leading hospitals and exposure collected from th...

This paper addresses two concerns with the state of the art in network revenue management with dependent demands. The first concern is that the basic attraction model (BAM), of which the multinomial model (MNL) is a special case, may overestimate recapture in certain cases. The second concern is that the choice based deterministic linear program (CBLP), currently in use to derive heuristics for...

The paper examines the problem of dataaow graph partitioning aiming to improve the eeciency of macro-dataaow computing on a hybrid control/data driven architecture. The partitioning consists of dataaow graph synchronization and scheduling of the synchronous graph. A new scheduling algorithm, called Global Arc Minimization (GAM), is introduced. The performance of the GAM algorithm is evaluated r...

Genetic evaluation strategies were studied using simulated data for three lactation traits in each of two importing and two exporting countries, each running a typical progeny test program. Conversion (CNV), multiple-trait across-country evaluation (MACE) and global animal model (GAM) strategies were considered. Base populations were either unselected, or all males were above average, and expor...

Velocity fields and density fluctuations of edge turbulence are studied in I-mode [F. Ryter et al., Plasma Phys. Controlled Fusion 40, 725 (1998)] plasmas of the Alcator C-Mod [I. H. Hutchinson et al., Phys. Plasmas 1, 1511 (1994)] tokamak, which are characterized by a strong thermal transport barrier in the edge while providing little or no barrier to the transport of both bulk and impurity pa...