Staphylococcus aureus is a major cause of infections. Toxic shock syndrome toxin (TSST-1) and Panton-Valentine leukocidin (PVL) are associated with severe clinical syndromes. S. aureus colonizing isolates recovered from healthcare workers and patients in the intensive care unit (ICU) of a university hospital comprising Group A were compared with those from adult non-ICU carriers (Group B). mecA...

Mobile devices, laptops, and USB memory usually store large amounts of sensitive information frequently unprotected. Unauthorized access to or release of such information could reveal business secrets, users habits, non-public data or anything else. Full Disk Encryption (FDE) solutions might help users to protect sensitive data in the event that devices are lost or stolen. In this paper we focu...

Many real-world problems have interesting symmetries. Encoding these problems into CNF formulas generally results in hard SAT problems. Examples includes the pigeon hole problem, which, although very simple, is nonpolynomial for any resolution-based method when encoded into SAT [6], and the n queen problem. In order to speed up search algorithms for these problems, intrinsic symmetries should b...

We show that the problem to decide whether two (convex) polytopes are combinatorially isomorphic is graph isomorphism complete, even for simple or simplicial polytopes. On the other hand, we give a polynomial time algorithm for the polytope isomorphism problem in bounded dimension, which is based on Luks’ algorithm for the isomorphism problem of graphs of bounded maximal degree.

4 Implementation test 35 Sumario 41 Bibliography 47 3 Preamble The graph isomorphism problem has a long history in mathematics and computer science, and more recently in fields of chemistry and biology. Graph theory is a branch of mathematics started by Euler as early as 1736 with his paper The seven bridges of Könisberg. It took a hundred years before other important contribution of Kirchhoff ...

We report 4 bloodstream infections associated with CC9 agr type II Staphylococcus aureus in individuals without animal exposure. We demonstrate, by microarray analysis, the presence of egc cluster, fnbA, cap operon, lukS, set2, set12, splE, splD, sak, epiD, and can, genomic features associated with a high virulence potential in humans.

We give a polynomial-time oracle algorithm for Tournament Canonization that accesses oracles for Tournament Isomorphism and Rigid-Tournament Canonization. Extending the Babai-Luks Tournament Canonization algorithm, we give an n n) algorithm for canonization and isomorphism testing of k-hypertournaments, where n is the number of vertices and k is the size of hyperedges.

Given a subgroup G = (F) of S n specified in terms of a generating set F, when n < 106 we present algorithms to test the simplicity of G, to find all of its composition factors, and to find a composition series. While there are already existing algorithms for these purposes (due to Luks or Neumann) valid for all n, the ones in the present note are designed to replace many group theoretic comput...