OBJECTIVES To examine the distribution and context of aminoglycoside resistance genes in multiply antibiotic-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii isolates from Australia that are members of the global clone 2 and carry the bla(OXA-23) gene conferring resistance to carbapenems. METHODS Sixty-one multiply antibiotic-resistant A. baumannii strains isolated between 2000 and 2010 at six Australian ho...

this article presents a novel method and development paradigm that proposes a general template for an enterprise information structure and allows for the automatic generation and modification of enterprise workflows. this dynamically integrated workflow development approach utilises a conceptual ontology of domain processes and tasks, enterprise charts, and enterprise entities. it also suggests...

The medium-entropy alloy is a newly intriguing material showing superb properties. A simple, one-step method was developed to electrodeposit CoNiFe films from sulfate and citrate bath. microstructure corrosion resistance were investigated in with varying deposition current densities. It shows the face-centered cubic structure <111> preferential orientation. HRTEM-EDS observations further show i...

Let $S(G^{sigma})$ be the skew-adjacency matrix of the oriented graph $G^{sigma}$, which is obtained from a simple undirected graph $G$ by assigning an orientation $sigma$ to each of its edges. The skew energy of an oriented graph $G^{sigma}$ is defined as the sum of absolute values of all eigenvalues of $S(G^{sigma})$. Two oriented graphs are said to be skew equienergetic iftheir skew energies...

this paper presents an appropriate categorization of business processes in order to study the different aspects of knowledge management for each kind of business processes. in this categorization, business processes are classified into the four categories including work-flow oriented, decision oriented, information oriented and motivation oriented. then, the special attributes and knowledge man...

framed in a cognitive approach to task-supported l2 vocabulary learning, the present study used a pedagogical approach to investigate the relative effectiveness of tasks with different involvement loads on the vocabulary knowledge of iranian efl learners. the goal was to investigate the way that the construct of involvement load is related to the input hypothesis (krashen, 1985) and the output ...