In the title compound, C(6)H(9)N(3)O(3), the 3-diazo-2-oxopropan-amide section of the mol-ecule is nearly planar, with a maximum deviation of 0.025 (1) Å from the mean plane of its constituent atoms. The diazo C=N=N angle is 178.0 (3)°. In the crystal, pairs of inter-molecular O-H⋯O and N-H⋯O hydrogen bonds link the mol-ecules into infinite double chains along the [100] direction. The double ch...

‎In this paper, using the idea of convexificators, we study boundedness and nonemptiness of Lagrange multipliers satisfying the first order necessary conditions. We consider a class of nons- mooth fractional programming problems with equality, inequality constraints and an arbitrary set constraint. Within this context, define generalized Mangasarian-Fromovitz constraint qualification and sh...

Connections between Tsallis' formalisms employing the standard linear average energy and ones employing the normalized q-average energy Abstract Tsallis' thermostatistics with the standard linear average energy is revisited by employing S 2−q , which is the Tsallis entropy with q replaced by 2 − q. We explore the connections among the S 2−q approach and the other different versions of Tsal-lis ...

BACKGROUND A typical peak timing in the glucagon stimulation test has been reported as an indication of growth hormone (GH) deficiency. Other stimulation tests have not been evaluated. OBJECTIVE To evaluate the clinical usefulness of peak timing in the arginine stimulation test (AST) for growth hormone deficiency. METHODS Retrospective review of 199 ASTs from one center. Outcomes included c...

Bloodstream infections are life-threatening conditions which require the timely initiation of appropriate antimicrobial therapy. We evaluated the automated Merlin MICRONAUT system for rapid direct microtiter broth antimicrobial susceptibility testing (AST) of gram-positive cocci and gram-negative bacilli from BACTEC 9240 bottles with positive blood cultures in comparison to the standard method ...