INTRODUCTION Vancomycin (VAN) failures associated with the treatment of complicated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infections have been well described. The reported "seesaw effect" demonstrates improved β-lactam activity when VAN and/or daptomycin (DAP) susceptibility decreases. However, there are minimal data comparing ceftaroline (CPT) susceptibility with these agents or t...

The Text Encoding Initiative is an international and interdisciplinary standards project established in 1987 to develop, maintain and promulgate hardwareand software-independent methods for encoding humanities data in electronic form. Initially the TEI was jointly sponsored by three established international professional associations (the Association for Computers and the Humanities, the Associ...

As the demand for ultra-low-power (ULP) devices has increased tremendously, system-on-chip (SoC) designs based on ultra-low-voltage (ULV) operation have been receiving great attention. Moreover, research shown remarkable potential that even more power savings can be achieved in ULV SoCs by exploiting temperature effect inversion (TEI) phenomenon, i.e., delay of decreases with increasing tempera...

Objectives: To compare tissue Doppler (TD) velocities between patients with dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) and normal controls and to determine whether TD velocities, Tei index, right ventricular fractional area change, and left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) predict adverse clinical outcomes in children with DCM. Methods: Prospective evaluation of children with DCM. Results: 54 children wi...

OBJECTIVES To compare tissue Doppler (TD) velocities between patients with dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) and normal controls and to determine whether TD velocities, Tei index, right ventricular fractional area change, and left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) predict adverse clinical outcomes in children with DCM. METHODS Prospective evaluation of children with DCM. RESULTS 54 children w...

The aim of this study was to evaluate the clinical utility of appetite sensations to characterize individual overall energy intake. A group of men (n 28) and women (n 23) was recruited to record their 'desire to eat', 'hunger', 'fullness' and 'prospective food consumption' (PFC) on visual analogue scales before a standardized meal test, immediately after and every 10 min for a period of 1 h aft...