BACKGROUND The use of rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) for Plasmodium falciparum malaria is being suggested to improve diagnostic efficiency in peripheral health care settings in Africa. Such improved diagnostics are critical to minimize overuse and thereby delay development of resistance to artemisinin-based combination therapies (ACTs). Our objective was to study the influence of RDT-aided malar...

We performed whole genome sequencing on a clinical multidrug-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae strain 223/14. Investigation into its draft genome revealed the presence of KPC-6 variant, suggesting carbapenemase is present in this isolate. We found a plasmid-borne KPC gene (882 bp) inserted between two transposase genes in the genome of K. pneumoniae 223/14.

We study a variable exponent model for image restoration in the case that the exponent attains the critical value one. We prove existence and Γ-convergence. The results answer an open question by Li, Li and Pi [Variable exponent functionals in image restoration, Appl. Math. Comput. 216 (2010), no. 3, 870–882].

We assessed 882 patients presenting with a proximal femoral fracture by a new mobility score and by a mental test score, to determine which was of the most value in forecasting mortality at one year. Both scores gave a highly significant prediction, but the mobility score had a greater predictive value and is easier to perform.

Purpose To test the risk of progression to macular edema (ME) of different phenotypes of mild nonproliferative diabetic retinopathy (NPDR). Methods Data from 882 patients with mild NPDR, Early Treatment Diabetic Retinopathy Study grades 20 and 35, with no prior laser treatment, enrolled in four separate longitudinal studies during 2007-2015 using the same reading center and with the same incl...

ABSTRACT Durability of partially resistant wheat cultivars to wheat leaf rust depends on the amount of genetic variation in parasitic fitness within populations of the pathogen Puccinia triticina. To assess the durability of partial resistance, selection experiments were used to explore quantitative variation in parasitic fitness of P. triticina. Fungal populations 881-WT and 882-WT were select...

It is well known that a sequence of randon numbers may be generated by Lehmer's congruential method. This method was originally executed in the formula; x n+1=23xn (mod 108+1). The period of this sequence eomes up to 5, 882, 352 which seems to be sufficient for almost all of our applications. The purpose of this paper is to provide an elementary method to account such a period of pseudo-random ...

* This project was supported by grants from the Marketing Science Institute (#4-882), the Goizueta Business School, and the Alden G. Clayton Dissertation Competition. Data support was provided by the Institute for the Study of Business Markets, the Pennsylvania State University. We are grateful to Ulf Bockenholt, Rajdeep Grewal, Gary Lilien, Steve Stern, Michael Martin, the Kellogg Marketing Ca...