The increasing presence of drug-resistant bacterial infections among hospitalAbstract ised patients has resulted in greater numbers of patients receiving inappropriate antimicrobial treatment. This has led to the development of a novel paradigm guiding the administration of empirical antimicrobial therapy for patients with serious infections in the hospital setting. Antibacterial de-escalation ...

The growth of medical robotics since the mid1980s has been striking. From a few initial efforts in stereotactic brain surgery, orthopaedics, endoscopic surgery, microsurgery, and other areas, the field has expanded to include commercially marketed, clinically deployed systems, and a robust and exponentially expanding research community. This chapter will discuss some major themes and illustrate...

In the Flipped classroom based on smart-learning, the participants studied at home in advance with materials made by their teachers. Then, in class, they searched data instantly by using smart pads, used applications for learning or as a tool, and conducted online evaluation, etc. The normal flipped learning-based education group studied at home in advance with videos made by their teachers and...

In keeping with the recent development of mobile-related industries, users require higher quality media service based on high-performance terminal devices and intellectual networks. In addition, P2P technology, which reduces the burden on a server and distributes roles unlike the existing client/server model, is attracting attention in mobile areas as well. This paper looks into the network mec...

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In this paper, we present a tile effect generation algorithm. The presented method cuts a given pictures with small-size tiles and an original image is composed of those tiles. The size of tiles is generated by random function. We use four parameters: size of horizontal and vertical block, size of skip blocks in horizontal and vertical direction. The presented method is tested on McM dataset. S...

The knowledge that melanoma is susceptible to attack by the host’s immune Abstract system has resulted in the testing of a variety of immunotherapies. Interferon-α-2b, which has several anti-tumour mechanisms including an antiproliferative effect, an anti-angiogenesis effect, the enhancement of natural-killer cell activity and the upregulation of tumour antigen presentation, has shown tremendou...

EmpZoyee-benefit plan8 providing incomemaintenance payments and health expense benefits have enjoyed continuous exparwion since 195& the first year for which the Social Security Administiration collected data for this series. Tke rate of growth in coverage, contributions, and benefits under the plans, however, has slackened in recent years. The following article discusses these developments and...

Salinity is a major abiotic stress that limits plant productivity and quality throughout the world. Roots are the sites of salt uptake. To better understand salt stress responses in maize, we performed a comparative proteomic analysis of seedling roots from the salt-tolerant genotype F63 and the salt-sensitive genotype F35 under 160 mM NaCl treatment for 2 days. Under salinity conditions, the s...

A dynamic kiln-wide wood drying model was developed previously to solve the integral form of the unsteady-state mass, momentum and energy balance equations in the air side. For the wood side, an empirical model, characteristic drying curve, for the internal moisture movement is used, which was obtained for low and medium temperature drying of Pinus radiata, with a medium velocity of 1.44.1 m s....