Numerous antimicrobial-resistant pathogens (ARPs) have emerged among patients who undergo chronic hemodialysis (CHD), including vancomycin-resistant enterococci, vancomycin-resistant coagulase-negative staphylococci, Staphylococcus aureus with reduced susceptibility to vancomycin, and linezolid-resistant S. aureus. In June 2002, the first isolate of vancomycin-resistant S. aureus (minimum inhib...

Actin-related proteins (ARPs) share less than 60% amino acid sequence homology with conventional actins and have roles in diverse cytoskeletal processes in the cytoplasm and nucleus. The genome of Arabidopsis was explored for possible ARP gene family members. Eight potential ARP gene sequences were found dispersed on three of the five Arabidopsis chromosomes. AtARP2 and AtARP3 are protein ortho...

Actin and actin-related proteins (Arps) are critical components of chromatin remodelling and modifying complexes, where they are commonly found in pairs. Yet, little is known about their role in these complexes. In this issue of The EMBO Journal, Fenn et al (2011) report the first structural investigation of two nuclear Arps, the INO80 complex subunits Arp4 and Arp8. Importantly, their results ...

Given a prime number p, Bloch and Kato showed how the p8-Selmer group of an abelian variety A over a number field K is determined by the p-adic Tate module. In general, the p-Selmer group Selpm A need not be determined by the mod p Galois representation Arps; we show, however, that this is the case if p is large enough. More precisely, we exhibit a finite explicit set of rational primes Σ depen...

This article introduces a new wildland fire spread prediction system consisting of the raster-based Discrete Event System Specification Fire model (DEVS-FIRE) and the Advanced Regional Prediction System atmospheric model (ARPS). Fire–atmosphere feedbacks are represented by transferring heat from DEVS-FIRE to ARPS as an externally forced set of surface fluxes and mapping the resulting changes in...

This paper presents the results of a simulation study designed to evaluate the applicability of an Arps decline curve methodology for assessing reserves in hydraulically-fractured wells completed in tight gas sands at high-pressure/high-temperature (HP/HT) reservoir conditions. We simulated various reservoir and hydraulic-fracture properties to determine their impact on the production decline b...

The packaging of DNA into nucleosomal structures limits access for templated processes such as transcription and DNA repair. The repositioning or ejection of nucleosomes is therefore critically important for regulated events, including gene expression. This activity is provided by chromatin remodeling complexes, or remodelers, which are typically large, multisubunit complexes that use an ATPase...

In adaptive sliding mode control methods, an updating gain strategy associated with finite-time convergence to the set is essential deal matched bounded perturbations unknown upper-bound. However, estimation of finite time any design a complicated task since it depends not only on upper-bound perturbation but also size initial conditions. This brief proposes uniform reaching phase (ARPS) within...

This paper presents a methodology for the design and optimization of artificial recharge-pumping systems (ARPS). The objective of ARPS is to provide a maximum abstraction rate through artificial recharge, while meeting two operational constraints: (a) the influences of the system operation on groundwater levels should be no more than 25 mm in the vicinity of the system; and (b) the travel time ...

In this paper, we propose a fast 2-D block-based motion estimation algorithm called Particle Swarm Optimization Zero-motion Prejudgment(PSO-ZMP) which consists of three sequential routines: 1)Zero-motion prejudgment. The routine aims at finding static macroblocks(MB) which do not need to perform remaining search thus reduces the computational cost; 2)Predictive image coding and 3)PSO matching r...