The microbiological and clinical features of a case of Achromobacter xylosoxidans (Alcaligenes xylosoxidans subsp. xylosoxidans) meningitis associated with a gunshot wound are described. To our knowledge, this is the third confirmed case report of meningitis caused by this organism.

Bile Acid Induced Diarrhoea Pathophysiological and Clinical Aspects Antal Bajor Department of Internal Medicine Institute of Medicine at Sahlgrenska Academy University of Gothenburg Sweden A common cause for referral to gastroenterologists is chronic watery diarrhoea. Approximately 40% of these patients have idiopathic bile acid malabsorption (BAM) – a condition with unknown aetiology. The SeHC...

due to their inherent sensitivity to resistivity contrast, em methods have an important role in detection of fault zones. in this paper, we experienced controlled source tensor magnetotelluric (cstmt) method to recognize a fault zone in bam area. an earthquake devastated the town of bam on 26 december 2003. surface displacements reveal that over 2 m of slip occurred at depth on a fault that had...

     Reduction of water resources limits the ability of farmers for food production and subsistence. Nowadays the quick growth of population has been the most important factor in the decline of renewable water. In many parts of Iran, including region of interest, the major factor in water resources decline was land use change, that may  cause to ecological destruction and disruption. Sustainabl...

Motivation: The reference CRAM file format implementation is in Java. We present “Scramble”: a new C implementation of SAM, BAM and CRAM file I/O. Results: The C API for CRAM is 1.5–1.7x slower than BAM at decoding, but 1.8–2.6x faster at encoding. We see file size savings of 40–50%. Availability: Source code is available from http://sourceforge.net/ projects/staden/files/io lib/ Contact: jkb@s...

Dr. Jinggao Liu , USDA, ARS, Southern Plains Agricultural Research Center, College Station, TX Dr. Alois A. Bell , USDA, ARS, Southern Plains Agricultural Research Center, College Station, TX Dr. Robert D. Stipanovic , USDA, ARS, Southern Plains Agricultural Research Center, College Station, TX Dr. Lorraine S. Puckhaber , USDA, ARS, Southern Plains Agricultural Research Center, College Station, TX

Rainbow trout and round goby were exposed for 30 days to waterborne and dietary Ni in combination at two waterborne concentration ranges (6.2-12 μmol/L, 68-86 μmol/L), the lower of which is typical of contaminated environments. The prey (black worms; Lumbriculus variegatus) were exposed for 48 h in the effluent of the fish exposure tanks before being fed to the fish (ration=2% body weight/day)....

in today's business environment in which coordination and adaptation with constant changes are the only ways of survival, real-time monitoring of activities and making the decisions accordingly are necessary. since performance measurement cannot be managed independent of business processes, business activity monitoring (bam) systems should monitor performance metrics based on business processes...

Next-generation sequencing (NGS) technology has led the life sciences into the big data era. Today, sequencing genomes takes little time and cost, but yields terabytes of data to be stored and analyzed. Biologists are often exposed to excessively time consuming and error-prone data management and analysis hurdles. In this paper, we propose a database management system (DBMS) based approach to a...

We investigate computer vision methods to monitor Intensive Care Units (ICU) and assist in sedation delivery and accident prevention. We propose the use of a Bed Aligned Map (BAM) to analyze the patient’s body. We use a depth camera to localize the bed, estimate its surface and divide it into 10 cm× 10 cm cells. Here, the BAM represents the average cell height over the mattress. This depth-base...