Face recognition technology has come a long way since its beginnings in the previous century. Due to its countless application possibilities in both the private as well as the public sector, it has attracted the interest of research groups from universities and companies around the world. Thanks to this enormous research effort, the recognition rates achievable with the state-of-the-art face re...

BACKGROUND Staphylococcus aureus is amongst major human pathogens both in hospitals and the community. This bacterium is an opportunistic pathogen responsible for a large number of self-limiting and even life-threatening diseases in humans. Methicillin resistant S. aureus (MRSA) strains are common causes of emerging nosocomial infections and are considered as a major problem for public health. ...

PROVIDENCE – Hasbro Children’s Hospital, the pediatric division of Rhode Island Hospital, has been designated a Level 1 Pediatric Trauma Center by the American College of Surgeons (ACS). This is the first time the hospital has been verified specifically for the care of injured children. Rhode Island Hospital has been a Level 1 Adult Trauma Center for more than 20 years, and has been reverified....

conclusions the relative higher frequency of some virulence genes in this study may reflect the emergence of isolates containing these genes in shiraz medical centers. background staphylococcus aureus is amongst major human pathogens both in hospitals and the community. this bacterium is an opportunistic pathogen responsible for a large number of self-limiting and even life-threatening diseases...

Luks’s algorithm (JCSS 1982) to test isomorphism of bounded degree graphs in polynomial time is one of the most important results in the context of the Graph Isomorphism Problem and has been repeatedly used as a basic building block for many other algorithms. In particular, for graphs of logarithmic degree, Babai’s quasipolynomial isomorphism test (STOC 2016) essentially boils down to Luks’s al...

Introduction Staphylococcus aureus causes a diverse array of diseases, ranging from relatively harmless localized skin infections to life-threatening systemic conditions. It secretes toxins directly associated with particular disease symptoms. Aim To determine the prevalence of methicillin-resistant S. aureus (MRSA) and methicillin-susceptible S. aureus (MSSA) colonization among patients with...

BACKGROUND A 1400-bed tertiary medical center in northern Taiwan was used to conduct an epidemiological study of children hospitalized with community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA) infection during a 5-year period. METHODS Nineteen previously healthy children with predominantly skin and soft-tissue CA-MRSA infections were enrolled into the study. Seventeen CA-M...