Comparison of MIC results obtained in different parts of the world is currently difficult because of variations in methods. In this study, cation-adjusted Mueller-Hinton broth, the NCCLS-recommended medium, was compared with Iso-Sensitest broth, which is widely used in Europe. Microbroth dilution testing, using the NCCLS procedure, was performed on 124 Gram-positive (staphylococci and enterococ...

The effect of monosodium glutamate (MSG) supplementation in soup or broth on satiety is not well understood. In the present study, the relative effects of four chicken broths with or without added MSG on motivational ratings and energy intakes at the next meal were compared using a double-blinded, within-subject design. A total of thirty-five normal-weight women, aged 20-40 years, took part in ...

Single image dehazing is challenging because it is massively ill-posed. Haze removal based on dark channel prior is effective, but refining the transmission map with closed-form matting is computationally expensive. Recent work discovered that using guided filter to refine the transmission map is feasible. In this paper, we elaborate single image dehazing by combining dark channel prior and gui...

This paper presents an approach to render novel views from input photographs, a task which is commonly referred to as image based rendering. We first compute dense view dependent depthmaps using consistent segmentation. This method jointly computes multiview stereo and segments input photographs while accounting for mixed pixels (matting). We take the images with depth as our input and then pro...

Scene segmentation is the well-known task of identifying the image regions corresponding to the different scene elements or segments Sk , k = 1, 2..., N belonging to a predefined set S par‐ titioning the scene in N subsets, each one corresponding to a scene object or to a region of interest. Beside being an important problem by itself, segmentation is also employed as a preliminary step in many...

The efficiency of strontium selenite and selenite F broths in the isolation of S. typhi from 625 clinical stool specimens were compared. A total of 126 strains of S. typhi were detected. Of these, 96 (76%) were isolated with selenite F broth and 118 (94%) were isolated with strontium selenite broth. At the same time, the number of false positive isolates accruing to strontium selenite broth was...

Overnight cultures of V. cholerae, V. el tor, non-cholera vibrio, and Streptococcus pneumoniae in tryptone-soya broth (with 5% blood added for the last-named) failed to grow on subculture despite visible growth in all tubes. Viable counts and pH determinations of overnight cultures of various species in tryptone-soya broth, brain-heart infusion broth, and Lab-Lemco peptone broth show that death...