Seven nomenclatural novelties in Penstemon (Plantaginaceae) are proposed for taxa that will be included in the forthcoming treatment of the genus in the Flora of North America North of Mexico series. Three additional novelties are made for Mexican taxa outside the flora area. Penstemon xylus A. Nelson is determined to be the correct name for the species heretofore called P. tusharensis N. Holmg...

Probiotic therapy is attracting the renewed interest of clinicians and basic investigators from a variety of traditional research disciplines. While the theoretical rationale for modifying the commensal flora of the gastrointestinal tract in specific circumstances appears sound and requires scientific pursuit, the field of probiotics has been clouded by exaggerated claims from some quarters. In...

The Rand Flora is a well-known floristic pattern in which unrelated plant lineages show similar disjunct distributions in the continental margins of Africa and adjacent islands-Macaronesia-northwest Africa, Horn of Africa-Southern Arabia, Eastern Africa, and Southern Africa. These lineages are now separated by environmental barriers such as the arid regions of the Sahara and Kalahari Deserts or...

BACKGROUND The presence of Salmonella enterica serovars in feed ingredients, products and processing facilities is a well recognized problem worldwide. In Norwegian feed factories, strict control measures are implemented to avoid establishment and spreading of Salmonella throughout the processing chain. There is limited knowledge on the presence and survival of the resident microflora in feed p...

Charcoal-horse blood agar with 40 micrograms of cephalexin per ml, charcoal-horse blood agar with 3 micrograms of lincomycin per ml, charcoal agar with 3 micrograms of lincomycin per ml, and Legionella (buffered charcoal-yeast extract) agar with 3 micrograms of lincomycin per ml were compared for isolation of Bordetella pertussis. Charcoal-horse blood agar with 40 micrograms of cephalexin per m...

Part II Green Computing and Networking Performance of an Autonomous Energy Harvesting Wireless Sensor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Erol Gelenbe and Yasin Murat Kadioglu Towards Assessment of Energy Consumption and Latency of LTE UEs During Signaling Storms. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 Frederic Francois, Omer H. Abdel...

Model transformations play a key role in model-driven development. They are used to generate, refactor, synthesize, reverse engineer and simplify models among others. The accuracy of transformations will impact not only transformations themselves, but also the models, the first class entities of MDE. Verification of correctness properties ensures the quality of both transformations and models. ...

BACKGROUND Endoscopically guided cultures are frequently employed to guide antimicrobial therapy in refractory chronic rhinosinusitis (CRS) patients. The objective of this study was to determine the impact of culture-directed antibiotics on patient symptoms. METHODS Retrospective review was conducted of 105 adult CRS patients undergoing evaluation in the ambulatory clinic of tertiary care aca...

For several years we used rayon or Dacron swabs with liquid transport media for collection and transport of throat swab specimens for testing with the Gen-Probe Group A Strep Direct Test (GASDT). A report of favorable results with a Dacron swab without any transport media for GASDT by another laboratory prompted us to compare detection of group A streptococci (GAS) with and without transport me...

F-logic is a popular formalism for knowledge-intensive applications and, especially, for ontology management in Semantic Web. However, the original F-logic’s semantics for inheritance suffers from a number of anomalies when inheritance and deduction closely interact. This work rectifies this problem and develops a natural model-theoretic semantics for inheritance in frame-based knowledge bases,...