A highly stable strain of Staphylococcus aureus with a pulsed-field gel electrophoresis type of USA300 and multilocus sequence type 8 has been isolated from patients residing in diverse geographic regions of the United States. This strain, designated USA300-0114, is a major cause of skin and soft tissue infections among persons in community settings, including day care centers and correctional ...

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Observations from the proportional counter array experiment on board the Rossi X-Ray T iming Explorer (RXT E) of the temporal and spectral properties of the high-mass X-ray binary 2S 0114]650 are reported. We Ðnd highly variable X-ray emission modulated at a period of 2.73 hr. The temporal results indicate that 2S 0114]650 is the slowest neutron star rotator presently known. Spectral analysis r...

Joseph A. Goguen Dept. Computer Science & Engineering University of California at San Diego, La Jolla CA 92093-0114

We ll a gap in the theory of zero-knowledge protocols by presenting NP-arguments that achieve negligible error probability and computational zero-knowledge in four rounds of interaction, assuming only the existence of a one-way function. This result is optimal in the sense that four rounds and a one-way function are each individually necessary to achieve a negligible error zero-knowledge argume...

Metrology Mark Land Cognitive Computer Science Research Group Computer Science Department University of California at San Diego La Jolla, CA 92093-0114 John J. SIDorowich 7150 Aptos View Road Aptos, CA 95003 Richard K. Belew Cognitive Computer Science Research Group Computer Science Department University of California at San Diego La Jolla, CA 92093-0114 Abstract Nondestructively determining th...

The notion of independence is of great importance in any formalism for managing uncertainty, for both theoretical and practical reasons. In this paper we study the concept of independence in the framework of possibility theory. Our approach to defining conditional independence relationships is based on comparing conditional possibility measures. Different comparison criteria are presented, base...