69 INTRODUCTION The success of operating a drive-thru facility depends on queues and waiting times experienced by customers. Drivethru facilities are required to provide queuing areas that can hold the expected maximum queue length. Rates of arrivals and service times affect the required queuing areas for drive-thru facilities. Gattis recommended queuing areas for drive-thru facilities located ...

Previous studies identified a family of organic anion transport proteins (OATPs), many of which have C-terminal PDZ binding consensus sequences. In particular, the C-terminal four amino acids of Oatp1a1, a transporter on rat and mouse hepatocytes, comprise a consensus binding site for PDZK1. In PDZK1 knockout mice and in transfected cells where PDZK1 expression was knocked down, Oatp1a1 accumul...

Acute otitis media, inflammation of the middle ear, is the most common bacterial infection in children and, as a consequence, is the most common reason for antimicrobial prescription to this age group. There is currently no effective vaccine for the principal pathogen involved, non-typeable Haemophilus influenzae (NTHi). The most frequently used and widely accepted experimental animal model of ...

implant and DMPA appears increasingly important in light of one recent animal study suggesting a relationship between progestin exposure and vaginal atrophy (which might lead to increased risk of HIV infection).6 Although it is premature to extrapolate the findings of this study to humans, the results highlight the importance of correct and consistent condom use among users of hormonal contrace...

Acinetobacter baumannii is one of the major threats in clinical infections due to its antibiotic resistance ability. It shows increasing resistance to carbapenems, mainly due to β-lactamase mediated mechanisms. The aim of this study was to investigate carbapenem resistance (CR) profiles and analyze β-lactamases genes composition of clinical A. baumannii strains from a teaching hospital in Xi'an...

Rainfall is one of the important parameters for evaluating flood hazard risk. Cambodia a vulnerable country to extreme rainfall where number rain gauges over limited. Therefore, possibilities applying products from satellite observation and forecasting models are crucial country. The purpose this research evaluate detecting accuracy rainfall-based Weather Research Forecasting (WRF) model TRMM b...