conclusions combination therapy with surgical excision has a synergistic effect and appears to be the best treatment for extended lesions. however, new potent antibacterial drugs may help to improve the management of such infections when there are sufficient data on their in vitro activity. introduction nocardia species are described as opportunistic pathogens that mainly cause pulmonary nocard...

Post transplant patients are more vulnerable to the opportunistic fungal infections secondary long -standing treatment on immunosuppressive therapy. A conscientious look in post renal transplant patients view of any is crucial. Aureobasidium pullulans an agent responsible for various pathologies leading nodules with ulceration on skin and systemic infection abcess formation viscera. Keyw...

Large-scale computing platforms and current networking technologies enable sharing, selection, and aggregation of highly heterogeneous resources for solving complex real problems. Opportunistic grids are distributed platforms built out of the available resources (volunteers or donors) of an existing hardware platform that harvest the computing power of nondedicated resources when they are idle....

The main objective of a bidding agent in TAC SCM is to get profitable orders and to get enough orders to keep the production going. There is a delicate balance that the bidding agent needs to maintain while deciding on which specific orders to bid and what bidding price to set. In this highly complex bidding problem with (i) many inter-dependencies, (ii) multiple information flows, (iii) histor...

In increasingly networked times, CSCW systems have become more common. In most of these, individuals work collaboratively from their personal computer terminals, unaware of their peers. In this scenario, opportunities for collaboration often go unnoticed. In this paper, we investigate aspects of unplanned cooperation and how it might be encouraged. We propose an agent framework to encourage and...

Microglial nodules associated with opportunistic and HIV-related lesions are frequently found in the brains of AIDS patients. However, in many cases, the causative agent is only presumptively suspected. We reviewed 199 brains of AIDS patients with micronodular lesions to clarify their etiology by immunohistochemistry (to Toxoplasma gondii, cytomegalovirus, herpes simplex virus I/II, varicella z...

This paper presents an extension of the Motivated Learning model that includes environment masking, and opportunistic behavior of the motivated learning agent. Environment masking improves an agent’s ability to learn by helping to filter out distractions, and the addition of a more complex environment increases the simulation’s realism. If conditions call for it opportunistic behavior allows an...