BACKGROUND The prevalence of extended-spectrum beta-lactamase (ESBL)-producing Enterobacteriaceae is increasing globally and is a major clinical concern. Between June 2008 and September 2009, 4% of patients in an intensive care unit (ICU) were found to be colonized or infected by strains of Klebsiella pneumoniae multiresistant to ceftazidime, ciprofloxacin, and tobramycin; an investigation was ...

We show that macroscopic dark matter (DM) impacts on the degenerate helium cores of red-giant branch (RGB) stars can ignite fusion via DM-baryon elastic scattering. The onset burning leads to a characteristic drop in luminosity and rise temperature marks transition horizontal star. such alter RGB function globular clusters (GCs), focusing particular GC M15. Using models M15 constructed with ste...

0377-2217/$ see front matter Crown Copyright 2013 Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2013.10.011 ⇑ Corresponding author at: Manchester Business School, University of Manchester, Booth Street West, M15 6PB Manchester, UK. Tel.: +44 (0)1613063495. E-mail addresses: [email protected] (J.M. Merigó), mcasanovas@ ub.edu (M. Casanovas), jian-bo....

Professor Richard L. Lewis University of Michigan Department of Psychology Ann Arbor, MI 48109 [email protected] +1-734-763-1466 Professor Andrew Howes University of Manchester Manchester Business School MBS East, Booth Street West Manchester M15 6PB United Kingdom [email protected] +44(0) 161 30 65826 Dr. Alonso H. Vera NASA Ames Research Center HCI Group MS 262-4 Moffett Field CA 94035 alo...

Diane Burns, Paula Hyde, Anne Killett, Fiona Poland and Richard Gray University of Sheffield, Management School, Mushroom Lane, Sheffield, S10 2TN, UK, Manchester Business School, University of Manchester, Booth Street West, Manchester, M15 6PB, UK, University of East Anglia, University Research Park, Norwich, Norfolk, NR4 7TJ, UK, and University of the West of England, Faculty of Health and Li...

We present preliminary results of the observational campaign on SN 2002er carried out by the European Supernova Collaboration (ESC). For this supernova the optical coverage from epochs −11 days to +50 days is excellent, both in imaging and spectroscopy. The extinction deduced from the photometry is E(B − V) = 0.35, while ∆m15 = 1.31. In general SN 2002er behaves like a " normal " type Ia supern...