BACKGROUND Penetrating trauma injury is generally associated with higher short-term mortality than blunt trauma, and results in substantial societal costs given the young age of those typically injured. Little information exists on the patient and treatment characteristics for penetrating trauma in England and Wales, and the acute outcomes and costs of care have not been documented and analysed...

Colibacillosis accounts for annual multimillion dollar losses in the poultry industry, and control of this disease is hampered by limited understanding of the virulence mechanisms used by avian pathogenic Escherichia coli (APEC). Previous work in our laboratory has found that the presence of the increased serum survival gene (iss) is strongly associated with APEC but not commensal E. coli, maki...

The paper presents the first result on ISS properties of dynamic unicycle models describing nonholonomic mobile robots. It is known that ISS is related to smooth stabilizability, however this relation cannot exclude the possibility of non smoothly stabilizable systems to possess ISS properties. In fact, it is shown that in a certain topology that seems to suit the nonholonomic nature of the mob...

In this paper, we investigate set Input to State Stability (set-ISS) in the context of multi-agent systems, specifically when agent interaction is spatial in nature. We review the definition of Input-to-State (ISS) Lyapunov functions with respect to sets, from which we provide a structural formulation of set-ISS that accommodates the local and per-agent nature of interacting systems. We argue t...

1This research was supported by the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative competitive grant number 2011-68004-30336 form the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture. 2Corresponding author: [email protected] ABSTRACT: Little is known of the consequences of divergent selection for residual feed intake (RFI) on intestinal digestion capacity, particularly during immune system stimulati...

Over 1.5 million percutaneous coronary revascularisation procedures are performed annually world wide, most being intracoronary stenting. Despite enormous advances in devices, the major limitation is in-stent stenosis (ISS) (reviewed by Bennett and O’Sullivan). Although ISS rates are 10–20% in selected patients, we now stent total occlusions, saphenous vein bypass grafts, both angioplasty and I...