Introduction: Non-fermentative Gram-negative bacilli (NFGNB) are occasionally involved in infectious diseases pathology, but have shown resistance to multiple antibiotics and the capability to gain new resistance factors in the hospital environment. The present study was aimed to investigate the antibiotic susceptibility pattern of rare NFGNB isolated from different clinical samples and the pre...

A compressible non-body conformal grid method is presented. The method is designed to simulate a large variety of subsonic compressible flows with complex geometries. A hybrid implicit-explicit timediscretization scheme is chosen. The diagonal viscous terms are treated implicitly and all other terms including the convective terms and cross-terms are treated explicitly using a low-storage, 3-Ord...

Part II Themes Communication in the presence of an adversary. Encryption; efficiency of encryption: important due to pervasive communication; Batch verification. Authentication. Key distribution. Access control. Crypto-analysis: Break hardness assumptions used in cryptography. Make better proofs of security. Proving the security of protocols. Code obfuscation: Hide your intent. 0 knowledge proo...

an important issue in power generation and petrochemical industries is the monitoring of pipe wall thickness and corrosion/erosion rate. the pipes are usually subject to erosive and/or corrosive environments and any failure could be catastrophic. while periodic manual ultrasonic thickness measurement is the common practice in many industries, in certain cases, where higher accuracies are requir...