Sir, Worldwide, most multiply antibiotic-resistant (MAR), and particularly carbapenem-resistant, Acinetobacter baumannii causing infections belong to global clone 1 (GC1) or global clone 2 (GC2). Though there have been incidences where a different clonal group was predominantly responsible for an epidemic outbreak, MAR isolates that are not members of these clones have been observed to cause in...

We describe methods and algorithms for automated generation of multiparted airplane wings with winglets. The wings are given by one or more cross-sections (e.g. by point clouds) and their top views. The relative thickness of the wing (thickness/chord) can be varied from section to section. A rounded tip with design parameters and GC1-continuity at the crossing to the wing is automatically compu...

Complex networks have been employed to model many real systems and as a modeling tool in a myriad of applications. In this paper, we use the framework of complex networks to the problem of supervised classification in the word disambiguation task, which consists in deriving a function from the supervised (or labeled) training data of ambiguous words. Traditional supervised data classification t...

One of the major challenges in modern distributed computing is to deal with highly dynamic environments. As components are entitled to move across a network whose nodes can, themselves, be mobile, the availability and responsiveness of resources and services are often unpredictable and out of their control [GCI01]. For instance, in the presence of mobility of code, computational resources such ...