Kariyama and colleagues (5) recently described a multiplex PCR method for the detection of the vanA, vanB, vanC1, and vanC2/C3 genes, in addition to primers for the detection of the ddl genes of Enterococcus faecalis and E. faecium and of 16S rRNA (PCR control). However, the vanB primers used by these authors were derived from the sequence of the vanB1 subtype (1) and are incapable of detecting...

Recent energy policies promote generations from green resources to meet sustainability criteria. Since Turkey is one of the largest agricultural producers globally, it has great biogas production potential. This study aims evaluate biomethane yields most abundant agro-residues in and assess their potentials for contribution production. Within this scope, sunflower heads, tea residues, cotton st...

The properties and thermal stability of thin films nano-multilayers (NMLs) are generally governed by the in-depth stress (strain) gradients rather than average state. effect strain gradient variation in Cu/W NMLs on between 400 800 °C was investigated. distribution NML stacks varied combining bilayers with different Cu W thicknesses either 3 or 10 nm. A recently developed method based in-plane ...

Program profiling helps in characterizing program behavior for a target architecture. We have implemented a retargetable simulation driven code profiler from a high-level processor description language, Sim-nML. A programming interface has been provided for building customized profilers. The retargetability makes the profiling tool independent of the target instruction set.

We present new radio observations of the brighter region of the northern lobe (the Northern Middle Lobe, NML) of Centaurus A obtained at 20 cm with the Australia Telescope Compact Array. The angular resolutions are ∼50 and ∼130 arcsec, therefore much higher than for the previously available radio images of this region. The most interesting feature detected in our images is a large-scale jet tha...

BACKGROUND To evaluate the correlation of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) features of breast lesions of Breast Imaging Reporting and Database System (BI-RADS) category 4 with histopathologic results. MATERIALS AND METHODS In a prospective study between December 2013 and April 2015, patients with suspicious mammographic and/or ultrasound findings referred for Breast MRI were evaluated. Patien...

The central idea of the MDL (Minimum Description Length) principle is to represent a class of models (hypotheses) by a universal model capable of imitating the behavior of any model in the class. The principle calls for a model class whose representative assigns the largest probability or density to the observed data. Two examples of universal models for parametric classesM are the normalized m...