The Proteus syntactic analyzer was developed starting in the fall of 1984 as a common base for all the applications of the Proteus Project . Many aspects of it s design reflect its heritage in the Linguistic String Parser, previously developed an d still in use at New York University . The current system, including the Restriction Language compiler, the lexical analyzer, and the parser proper, ...

Bioinformatics is as a bridge between life science and computer science: computer algorithms are needed to face complexity of biological processes. Bioinformatics applications manage complex biological data accessing distributed heterogeneous databases, and require large computing power. After introducing bioinformatics requirements, we present the architecture of PROTEUS, a Grid-based Problem ...

Cowden syndrome (CS) is a genetic disorder characterized by multiple benign tissue growths (i.e., hamartomas) and an increased risk of developing specific cancers, such as breast, thyroid, kidney, endometrial, or colorectal cancer (Genetics Home Reference, 2012). This genetic syndrome was named after a person diagnosed with the disorder (Lloyd & Dennis, 1963). CS is part of a larger syndrome ca...

In recent years, portfolio approaches to solving SAT problems and CSPs have become increasingly common. There are also a number of di erent encodings for representing CSPs as SAT instances. In this paper, we leverage advances in both SAT and CSP solving to present a novel hierarchical portfolio-based approach to CSP solving, which we call Proteus, that does not rely purely on CSP solvers. Inste...

Synergistic activity between both azlocillin and mezlocillin and aminoglycosides or cefazolin could be demonstrated by checkerboard dilution, isobologram, and killing curve techniques. Azlocillin and mezlocillin combined with gentamicin, netilmicin, or amikacin were synergistic against Escherichia coli, Klebsiella, Citrobacter, Enterobacter, Serratia, and indole-positive Proteus. Synergy was ob...

Ethyl acetate (EA) extract of the stem bark of Cylicodiscus gabunensis (CG) was analysed phytochemically and evaluated for its antimicrobial activity against 17 pathogenic species isolated from patient: Escherichia coli, Klebsiella pneumoniae, Shigella dysenteriae, Shigella flexneri, Morganella morganii, Proteus vulgaris, Proteus mirabilis, Salmonella typhi, Citrobacter freundii, Enterobacter c...

The Proteus syndrome is a rare congenital hamartomatous condition that is characterized by a wide range of malformations, sometimes involving the face. Common manifestations include partial gigantism, congenital lipomas, and plantar hyperplasia. In this report we describe the craniofacial clinicopathological development in a girl with Proteus syndrome from age 6 to 20 years. The patient had pro...

Meralluride, mercaptomerin, ethacrynic acid, and penicillamine inhibited urease activity of Proteus mirabilis. The activity of the organic mercurials and ethacrynic acid was markedly inhibited by human and dog urine. Antiurease activity could not be detected in the urine of a human and a dog given meralluride by injection. Urine from patients receiving penicillamine also failed to inhibit ureas...

The ability of penicillin to induce morphological changes in various strains of Proteus is already well known from the investigations of Qrskov (1947), Lahelle (1948), Levaditi and Henry (1948), Dienes (1949), Tulasne (1949a,b, 1950), Fleming et al. (1950), Freundt (1950), Pulvertaft (1953), and von Prittwitz and Gaffron (1953). The ease with which Proteus produces spherical forms, so-called "l...

Many isolates belonging to the Enterobacteriaceae were collected in 1965 from the inpatients at geographically scattered hospitals in Japan. Among 2,650 Shigella strains examined, 58.4% were found to be drug-resistant; 95.0% of these resistant strains were multiply resistant. Among 434 resistant strains examined, 81% carried R factors that were transferable by cell-to-cell contact. Of 160 isola...