BACKGROUND There are limited data available on macrolide-lincosamide-streptogramin (MLS) resistance of Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus) and coagulase-negative staphylococci (CoNS) from bovine milk in China. To address this knowledge gap, MLS resistance was determined in 121 S. aureus and 97 CoNS isolates. Minimum inhibitory concentrations (MICs) of MLS antibiotics were determined by an agar di...

Erik Ahlstrand (2013): Coagulase-negative Staphylococci in Hematological Malignancy. Örebro Studies in Medicine 95. Bacterial infections are common in hematological malignancy. Coagulasenegative staphylococci (CoNS) are among the most prevalent causes of bacteremia in patients with hematological malignancies. In this thesis, different aspects of CoNS in hematological malignancy have been studie...

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To examine correlates of participation in regular physical activities among young adult survivors of childhood cancers. DESIGN Descriptive, correlational. SETTING Web-based survey. SAMPLE 117 well-educated, predominately Caucasian survivors of various types of childhood cancers (-X age = 24 years). METHODS Participants completed four rating scales, a stages of change ...

Coagulase-negative staphylococci (CoNS) are a leading cause of sepsis in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) setting. To evaluate the hypothesis that isolates of CoNS associated with disease belong to hypervirulent clones, as opposed to being drawn randomly from the neonatal unit carriage flora, we conducted a prospective, case-controlled study in a busy NICU. Using pulsed-field gel electro...

Spaying (ovariectomy or ovariohysterectomy) has been shown to reduce unwanted pregnancies, prevent pyometra and decrease the risk of mammary gland tumors in female dogs and cats. However, increased tendency to develop obesity may occur in either species. In dogs, an increased incidence of certain cancers, aggressiveness, sedentary behavior, and urinary incontinence may develop after spaying. Th...

“To creep or not to creep?” That is the question that many Mississippi beef producers wrangle with in managing calf nutrition. Producers often have several arguments for either allowing calves creep supplementation access or for keeping creep access off limits. A 1996 survey conducted by USDA’s National Health Monitoring System reported that 19.5% of cow-calf operations in the Southeast utilize...

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For classi cation problems with ordinal attributes very often the class attribute should increase with each or some of the explaining attributes. These are called classi cation problems with monotonicity constraints. Classical decision tree algorithms such as CART or C4.5 generally do not produce monotone trees, even if the dataset is completely monotone. This paper surveys the methods that hav...

In open environments there is no central control over agent behaviors. On the contrary, agents in such systems can be assumed to be primarily driven by self interests. Under the assumption that agents remain in the system for significant time periods, or that the agent composition changes only slowly, we have previously presented a prescriptive strategy for promoting and sustaining cooperation ...

Construal Level Theory (CLT; Trope & Liberman, 2003) proposes that pro-arguments (pros) constitute high-level construals and counter-arguments (cons) low-level construals. Therefore, pros are more salient for distant-future actions than are cons and the reverse holds for near-future actions (Eyal, Liberman, Trope, & Walther, 2004). We further predicted and results from one experiment show that ...