Article history: Received 31 August 2011 Revised 16 December 2011 Accepted 11 April 2012 Available online 25 April 2012 Communicated by L. Storme MSC: 05B25 11T24 11T71

Article history: Received 18 February 2010 Received in revised form 31 December 2010 Accepted 11 January 2011 Available online 19 January 2011

Decimal expansions of classical constants such as √ 2, π and ζ(3) have long been a source of difficult questions. In the case of Laurent series with coefficients in a finite field, where “no carries appear,” the situation seems to be simplified and drastically different. In 1935 Carlitz introduced analogs of real numbers such as π, e or ζ(3) and it became reasonable to enquire how “complex” the...

In this paper, we present the KOMODO system which is designed to provide tips (advice and warnings) on the way to realize a task from user queries. Information is extracted from web services. We present the different steps of the system: web page selection, ranking and cleaning, extraction of warnings and advice, relevance analysis and contextualization, and production of a response. The differ...

Article history: Received 7 February 2011 Received in revised form 23 September 2011 Accepted 11 February 2012 Available online 19 February 2012

OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to analyse the effects of clinical breakpoint changes in CLSI 2010 and 2011 guidelines and EUCAST 2011 guidelines on antibiotic susceptibility testing (AST) reports. METHODS In total, 3713 non-duplicate clinical isolates of Enterobacteriaceae, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Stenotrophomonas maltophilia and Acinetobacter baumannii were analysed. Inhibition zone di...

Article history: Received 11 February 2011 Received in revised form 11 April 2012 Accepted 18 April 2012

Article history: Received 25 April 2011 Received in revised form 11 January 2012 Accepted 11 January 2012