We evaluated the diagnostic accuracy of urinary and pericardial fluid (PF) lipoarabinomannan (LAM) assays in tuberculous pericarditis (TBP). From October 2009 through September 2012, 151 patients with TBP were enrolled. Mycobacterium tuberculosis culture and/or pericardial histology were the reference standard for definite TBP. 49% (74/151), 33.1% (50/151) and 17.9% (27/151) of patients had def...

The rapid emergence of strains of Enterococcus faecium with high-level resistance to vancomycin (VREF) has created a serious therapeutic void in the management of enterococcal infection. As for vancomycin-susceptible enterococci, serious infection with VREF strains frequently occurs in debilitated or immunocompromised hosts with significant underlying disease. Several recent series report an in...

This study determined the optimal conditions for deep eutectic solvent (DES) pretreatment of sugarcane leaves and best fermentation mode hydrogen methane production from DES-pretreated leaves. Choline chloride (ChCl):monoethanolamine (MEA) is most effective removing lignin The optimum were a ChCl: MEA molar ratio 1:6, 120 °C, 3 h, substrate-to-DES solution 1:12. Under these conditions, 86.37 ± ...

The theory of respectively interpretation proposed in Yatabe and Tam (2021) "In defense an HPSG-based non-constituent coordination" (Linguistics Philosophy 44, pp. 1-77) entails that Binding Conditions A B need to be formulated as constraints on the form semantic representations. It is possible formulate two binding conditions such if anaphoric relations are encoded representations a way analog...

Abstract So-called respectively readings have posed serious challenges for theories of syntax and semantics. Sentences like George and Martha respectively denounced and were denounced by the governor (McCawley 1998) show that although the conjoined verbal expressions share the same syntactic subject, they do not predicate that subject in the same way; George (not Martha) denounced the governor,...