A total of 907 consecutive isolates of members of the family Enterobacteriaceae recovered during a 20-week period were tested for production of extended-spectrum beta-lactamases (ESBLs) by the double-disk (DD) potentiation method. Of 84 DD-positive isolates, 83 (9.2%) produced ESBLs based on isoelectric focusing. SHV-derived ESBLs and several TEM-derived ESBLs were present in nine species, incl...

BACKGROUND There is very little evidence of the similarity of the mechanics of maternal and bottle feeding. We assessed the mechanics of sucking in exclusive breastfeeding, exclusive bottle feeding, and mixed feeding. The hypothesis established was that physiological pattern for suckling movements differ depending on the type of feeding. According to this hypothesis, babies with breastfeeding h...

In 1981 Walter Rudin exhibited a totally real embedding of the Klein bottle into C2. We show that the polynomially convex hull of Rudin’s Klein bottle contains an open subset of C2. We also describe another totally real Klein bottle in C2 whose hull has topological dimension equal to three.

BACKGROUND Bacterial parapneumonic pleural effusions (PPEs) have high morbidity. The accurate identification of pathogens is vital for initiating the appropriate treatment. A previous study suggested that the use of blood culture bottles might improve the bacterial yield in PPEs. OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to compare the culture positivity rate by the blood culture bottles and the s...

In order to utilize or to extract the shape information of objects in an image for recognition, classification or retrieval, a method for representing shape is needed. In this paper, work on representing plastic bottle shape using morphological based approach for automated classification is reported. Morphological operations are used to describe the structure or form of an image. There are thre...