We studied the interaction between rifampin and fusidic acid against a group of staphylococci. Of the 20 coagulase-positive strains studied, checkerboard studies revealed synergy in 3 and indifference in 17; time-kill studies revealed synergy in 18 of 19 coagulase-positive strains at both 24 and 48 h. Of the 19 coagulase-negative strains, checkerboard studies revealed synergy in 6 and indiffere...

In this paper, we give two new criteria of detecting the checkerboard colorability virtual links by using odd writhe and arrow polynomial links, respectively. As a result, prove that 6 knots are not colorable, leaving only one knot whose is unknown among all up to four classical crossings.

We document Fortran MPI checkerboard code for Markov Chain Monte Carlo simulations of pure SU(3) lattice gauge theory with the Wilson action on a D-dimensional double-layered torus. This includes the usual torus with periodic boundary conditions as an optional case. We use Cabibbo-Marinari heatbath checkerboard updating. Parallelization on sublattices is implemented in all D directions and can ...

Consider the plane as a checkerboard, with each unit square colored black or white in an arbitrary manner. We show that for any such coloring there are straight line segments, of arbitrarily large length, such that the difference of their white length minus their black length, in absolute value, is at least the square root of their length, up to a multiplicative constant. For the corresponding ...

The effects of antimicrobial combinations against ceftazidime-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa strains isolated from hospitalized patients were investigated. Using the checkerboard titration method, combination of fosfomycin-gentamicin, fosfomycin-ceftazidime, fosfomycin-imipenem and ceftazidime-gentamicin was synergistic against 4, 11, 38 and 39% of 22, 18, 29 and 18 strains tested respectivel...

We introduce a new zooming algorithm curvature interpolation method(CIM) based on partial differential equation, which produce high resolution(HR) color image by solving a linearized curvature equation. Partial Differential Equations (PDEs) have become an important tool for interpolation methods in image processing and analysis. CIM first evaluates the curvature of the low-resolution image, aft...

The interaction of ampicillin and chloramphenicol on three ampicillin-susceptible, chloramphenicol-resistant strains of Haemophilus influenzae was studied by checkerboard testing with subcultures, time-kill experiments, and a disk method. In all three strains there was inhibition of the bactericidal action of ampicillin by chloramphenicol at concentrations close to the MIC (10 micrograms/ml). T...