In order to determine whether hospital-based clinical laboratories conducting active surveillance for vancomycin-resistant enterococci in three San Francisco Bay area counties (San Francisco, Alameda, and Contra Costa counties) were accurately reporting vancomycin resistance, five vancomycin-resistant enterococcal strains and one vancomycin-susceptible beta-lactamase-producing enterococcus were...

"This work studies the initial boundary value problem for Petrovsky equation with nonlinear damping \begin{equation*} \frac{\partial ^{2}u}{\partial t^{2}}+\Delta ^{2}u-\Delta u^{\prime} +\left\vert u\right\vert ^{p-2}u+\alpha g\left( u^{\prime }\right) =\beta f\left( u\right) \text{ in }\Omega \times \left[ 0,+\infty \right[, \end{equation*} where $\Omega $ is open and bounded domain $\mathbb{...

Carotene isomerase mutant (crtH mutant) cells of Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 can accumulate beta-carotene under light conditions. However, the mutant cells grown under a light-activated heterotrophic growth condition contained detectable levels of neither beta-carotene nor D1 protein of the photosystem (PS) II reaction center, and no oxygen-evolving activity of PSII was detected. beta-Carotene a...

We show that the correlation functions of a class periodically driven integrable closed quantum systems approach their steady-state value as ${n}^{\ensuremath{-}(\ensuremath{\alpha}+1)/\ensuremath{\beta}}$, where $n$ is number drive cycles and $\ensuremath{\alpha}$ $\ensuremath{\beta}$ denote positive integers. find that, generically, $\ensuremath{\beta}=2$ within dynamical phase characterized ...

ozone is a triatomic molecule consisting of three oxygen atoms. it is applied to oral tissues in the forms of ozonated water, ozonated olive oil and oxygen/ozone gas. this paper presents a brief review on the chemistry of ozone as well as its medical and dental applications focusing on its use in endodontics. ozone’s antimicrobial activity, its effect on dentin bonding, toxicity and contra-indi...

The beta score, a composite measure of beta cell function after islet transplantation, has limited sensitivity because of its categorical nature and requires a mixed-meal tolerance test (MMTT). We developed a novel score based on a single fasting blood sample. The BETA-2 score used stepwise forward linear regression incorporating glucose (in millimoles per liter), C-peptide (in nanomoles per li...

In this manuscript, we will study \({\tilde{o}}\)-convergence in (partially) ordered vector spaces and a kind of convergence space V. A V is called semi-order (in short space), if there exist an W operator T from into W. way, say that with respect to \(\{W, T\}\). net \(\{x_\alpha \}\subseteq V\) said be \({\{W,T\}}\)-order convergent \(x\in write \(x_\alpha \xrightarrow {\{W, T\}}x\)), wheneve...

In this paper, we investigate inhomogeneous and simultaneous Diophantine approximation in beta dynamical systems. For $\beta>1$ let $T_{\beta}$ be the $\beta$-transformation on $[0,1]$. We determine Lebesgue measure Hausdorff dimension of set \[\left\{(x,y)\in [0,1]^2: |T_{\beta}^nx-f(x,y)|<\varphi(n)\text{ for infinitely many }n\in\mathbb{N}\right\},\] where $f:[0,1]^2\to [0,1]$ is a Lipschitz...

OBJECTIVE Developmental care comprises a wide range of medical and nursing interventions used in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) to mitigate and reduce stressors affecting preterm or ill neonates. Because patient satisfaction survey is a valuable quality improvement tool, we aimed to develop and test the psychometric properties of a tool for measuring parent satisfaction of developmenta...