mycoplasmosis caused by mycoplasma has immensely reduced the performance of commercial animal husbandry, along with prevalence and increase of drug resistance in mycoplasma, thus new agents and therapies are urgently needed. triclosan is a broad spectrum antimicrobial agent with a favorable safety profile. in the present study, we tested the antimycoplasmal activity of triclosan alone, as well ...

Resource Management tools for large-scale clusters and data centers typically schedule resources based on task requirements speci€ed in terms of processor, memory, and disk space. As these systems scale, two non-traditional resources also emerge as limiting factors: power and energy. Maintaining a low power envelope is especially important during Coincidence Peak, a window of time where power m...

BACKGROUND In the continuing effort to introduce antiretroviral therapy in resource-limited settings, there is a need to understand differences between natural history of HIV in different populations and to identify feasible clinical measures predictive of survival. METHODS We examined predictors of survival among 836 heterosexuals who were infected with HIV subtype CRF01_AE in Thailand. RE...

Neonatal reproductive failure should occur when energetic costs of parental investment outweigh fitness benefits. However, little is known about the drivers of neonatal reproductive failure in free-ranging species experiencing continuous natural variation in predator abundance and in the energetic and fitness costs and benefits associated with parental investment. Long-term comprehensive studie...

We are interested in contributing to solving effectively a particular type of real-time stochastic resource allocation problem. Firstly, one distinction is that certain tasks may create other tasks. Then, positive and negative interactions among the resources are considered, in achieving the tasks, in order to obtain and maintain an efficient coordination. A standard Multiagent Markov Decision ...

From a market based perspective, entities composing dynamic ubiquitous computing environments may be classified into two main categories that are, in principle, in conflict. These are the Service Resource Requestors (SRRs) wishing to use services and/or exploit resources offered by other system entities and the Service Resource Providers (SRPs) that offer the services/resources requested. Under...

This paper formulates a bilevel compromise programming model for allocating resources between pavement and bridge deck maintenances. The first level of the model aims to solve the resource allocation problems for pavementmanagement and bridge deckmaintenance, without considering resource sharing between them. At the second level, the model uses the results from the first step as an input and ge...

The theory of the “Dutch Disease” predicts that income from oil and other natural resources produces negative economic consequences through two different mechanisms. The “Resource Movement Effect” suggests that workers leave manufacturing for higher-paying jobs in other sectors. The “Spending Effect” implies that spending resource wealth domestically leads to exchange rate appreciation. The com...

Current and future mobile communication systems require the combination of high performance technology from very diverse engineering disciplines. Consequently, these systems are complex by nature, which complicates system-wide Quality of Service optimisation. In this paper we consider system-wide optimisation of resource distribution within the framework of a given (static) architecture but wit...

Objectives Cost data for trial-based economic evaluation can be obtained through micro-costing (collecting resource use and unit cost data for each centre or patient), grosscosting (average costs based on top-line budgets) or provider tariffs (e.g. healthcare resource groups, HRGs). Most studies use a combination of approaches due to data availability, although there is little guidance on which...