BACKGROUND Drug resistance indexes (DRIs) quantify the cumulative impact of antimicrobial resistance on the likelihood that a given pathogen will be susceptible to antimicrobial therapy. OBJECTIVE To derive a DRI for community urinary tract infections caused by Escherichia coli in British Columbia for the years 2007 to 2010, and to examine trends over time and across patient characteristics. ...

Wang Liang, Guo Yiping, Fang Ming 1 (Department of Control Science and Control Engineer, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, WuHan, 430074 P.R.China) 2(Library of Huazhong University of Science and Technology, WuHan 430074 P.R.China) E-mail:[email protected] Abstracts: This paper gives an absolute new search system that builds the information retrieval infrastructure for Internet...

In this session, Lawrence J. Appel of Johns Hopkins University, who chaired the panel on Dietary Reference Intakes (DRIs) for electrolytes and water, presented a brief overview of the DRIs for sodium, potassium, water, and sulfate; covered research recommendations specific to those nutrients; and addressed some related issues concerning the DRI taxonomy, evidence-based medicine and nutrition po...

The dynamic rotational isomeric state ~DRIS! formalism has been utilized to predict the local dynamics of amorphous cisand trans-polybutadiene at bulk density from short-time molecular dynamics ~MD! simulations at 425 K. The rates for transitions between rotational isomeric states have been calculated from the initial slopes of time-delayed transition ~conditional! probability curves extracted ...

ii To: My parents Khalid and Sarah for their never ending support. My wife Alaa for her encouragement, patience, and believe in me. My children Khaled, Ahmad, and Sarah for bringing joy to my life. iii ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I would like to thank my advisor Dr. Thomas Peters for his support and guidance. I would also like to thank my committee members Dr. Patrick O'Shaughnessy and Dr. Renée Anthony fo...

The foliar diagnosis can be considered as a useful tool to assess the nutritional status of plants. The diagnosis and recommendation integrated system (DRIS) has been developed for this purpose. In this study DRIS norms were determined for wheat plant (Triticum aestivum L.) in the Moghan region, northwest of Iran. A data bank created from nutrients concentrations of flag leaf and yield was use...

The purpose of this work is to describe how the release of the new Dietary Reference Intakes (DRIs) for the United States and Canada has necessitated changes in the US Department of Agriculture National Nutrient Database for Standard Reference (SR). New DRIs are reviewed to determine if the units for reporting vitamin intakes have changed and also to determine if the Tolerable Upper Intake Leve...