OBJECTIVES To identify the antibiotics potentially the most involved in the occurrence of antibiotic-resistant bacteria from an ecological perspective in French healthcare facilities (HCFs). METHODS This study was based on data from the French antimicrobial surveillance network (ATB-RAISIN, 2007-09). Antibiotics were expressed in defined daily doses per 1000 patient-days. Antibiotic-resistant...

The present study evaluates the effects of syrup concentrations of natural raisin microflora culture on the characteristics of sourdough and sourdough bread. The original total titratable acidity (TTA) of the starter solutions were between 10.30 and 10.45 mL, after 96 hours of incubation, the TTA of the starter solution increased to 11.30-11.85 mL. The greatest pH decrease and TTA increase occu...

A brief return to the high school classroom in 2004 provided me with the opportunity to teach young adult literature for the first time in my career. In the six years I taught English and reading, from 1996 to 2002, I only used classic works—Great Expectations, A Separate Peace, Romeo and Juliet, etc. It wasn’t that I didn’t like or want to teach young adult fiction; my schools never provided s...

People are often able to act eeciently in places like grocery stores, libraries, and other man-made domains even if they haven't been to those particular places before: They are exercising useful knowledge about how these environments are organized in order to facilitate their tasks. In this paper we show that everyday environments exhibit useful regularities an autonomous agent can use in orde...

We study elasticity-driven morphological transitions of soft spherical core-shell structures in which the core can be treated as an isotropic elastic continuum and the surface or shell as a tensionless liquid layer, whose elastic response is dominated by bending. To generate the transitions, we consider the case where the surface area of the liquid layer is increased for a fixed amount of inter...

Sir,?Much evidence purporting to support the theory that sandflies transmit leishmaniasis has accumulated. This is not surprising for such evidence has been looked for too assiduously and Pasteur's dictum?? Be very careful when you are looking for a thing or you will be sure to find it'?has been frequently ignored in these investigations. Malone and Brooks (1944) gave reasons for believing that...