Infections caused by extended-spectrum beta-lactamase (ESBL)- and ampC beta-lactamase-producing gram-negative bacteria complicate therapy and limit treatment options. Several different panels for ESBL detection with automated systems exist. In addition, a chromogenic agar medium is available for ESBL screening. We compared two automated identification and susceptibility testing systems with reg...

We present a measurement of $R_{K^{\ast}}$, the branching fraction ratio ${{\cal B}(B\to K^\ast \mu^+ \mu^-)}$/ e^+ e^-)}$, for both charged and neutral $B$ mesons. The case, $R_{K{^{\ast +}}}$, is first ever performed. In addition, we report absolute fractions individual modes in bins squared dilepton invariant mass, $q^2$. analysis based on data sample $711~\mathrm{fb}^{-1}$, containing $772\...

We present a measurement of $R_{K^{\ast}}$, the branching fraction ratio ${{\cal B}(B\to K^\ast \mu^+ \mu^-)}$/ e^+ e^-)}$, for both charged and neutral $B$ mesons. The case, $R_{K{^{\ast +}}}$, is first ever performed. In addition, we report absolute fractions individual modes in bins squared dilepton invariant mass, $q^2$. analysis based on data sample $711~\mathrm{fb}^{-1}$, containing $772\...

We formalize and prove the folklore theorems that Booth recoding improves the cost and cycle time of`standard' multipliers by certain constant factors. We also analyze the number of full adders in certain 4/2-trees.

In this paper, we study alternative primal and dual formulations of multistage stochastic convex programs (SP). The alternative dual problems which can be traced to the alternative primal representations, lead to stochastic analogs of standard deterministic constructs such as conjugate functions and Lagrangians. One of the by-products of this approach is that the development does not depend on ...

Assuming that the primal part of the sequence generated by a Newton-type (e.g., SQP) method applied to an equality-constrained problem converges to a solution where the constraints are degenerate, we investigate whether the dual part of the sequence is attracted by those Lagrange multipliers which satisfy second-order sufficient condition (SOSC) for optimality, or by those multipliers which vio...