In the present work, coexpression of vimentin (VIM) and glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) is demonstrated in the glial cells of the adult rat pineal gland. Serial consecutive Epon semithin sections (0.5 microns thick) were alternately immunostained for VIM and GFAP. GFAP positive cells and processes were found in the proximal region of the pineal gland, near the pineal stalk. Most of these...

BACKGROUND Metallo-β-lactamase-production among Gram-negative bacteria, including Pseudomonas aeruginosa, has become a challenge for treatment of infections due to these resistant bacteria. OBJECTIVES The aim of the current study was to evaluate the metallo-β-lactamase-production and carriage of bla-VIM genes among carbapenem-resistant P. aeruginosa isolated from burn wound infections. PATI...

Superelastic wires and diamond-shaped stent surrogates were manufactured from Nitinol rods and tubing, respectively, from five different mill product suppliers - Standard VAR, Standard VIM, Standard VIM+VAR, Process-Optimized VIM+VAR, and High-Purity VAR. High-cycle fatigue tests up to 10(7) cycles were conducted under tension-tension conditions for wires and bending conditions for diamonds. Th...

An interesting subset of problems in the field of computer vision require the inference of a continuous valued quantity from image data. This dissertation describes the visual inference machine (VIM), a general method for learning the mapping from image data to a continuous output space using the Bayesian rules of inference. The learning is performed without needing to define a generative model...

OBJECTIVE In the interventional treatment of movement disorders, the thalamic ventral intermediate nucleus (VIM) and the subthalamic nucleus (STN) are the most relevant electrode targets for deep brain stimulation (DBS). This study tested the value of somatosensory evoked potentials (SEP) for the functional identification of VIM and STN. METHODS Median nerve SEP were recorded from the final s...

in this work, the blasius equation is studied. homotopy perturbation method (hpm) and homotopy analysis method (ham) are applied to obtain its solution. comparison with variational iteration method (vim) is made to highlight the significant features of employed methods and their capability of handling nonlinear problems. the outcome shows the success of (hpm) and (ham) for solving nonlinear pro...

BACKGROUND Deep brain stimulation (DBS) requires precise and safe navigation to the chosen target. Optical measurements allow monitoring of gray-white tissue boundaries (total light intensity [TLI]) and microvascular blood flow during stereotactic procedures. OBJECTIVE To establish the link between TLI/blood flow and anatomy along trajectories toward the ventral intermediate nucleus (Vim) and...

A detailed biochemical characterization of the Pseudomonas aeruginosa VIM-11 metallo-beta-lactamase (MbetaL) is reported. The only substitution differentiating VIM-11 from VIM-2 (N165S) promoted a slightly improved catalytic efficiency of the former on 3 out of 12 substrates, notably the bulky cephalosporins. Thus, MbetaL-mediated resistance also may be modulated by remote mutations.

The variational iteration method(VIM) was extended to find approximate solutions of fractional chemical engineering equations. The Lagrange multipliers of the VIM were not identified explicitly. In this paper we improve the VIM by using concept of fixed point iteration method. Then this method was implemented for solving system of the time fractional chemical engineering equations. The ob...

Epidemiological data on carbapenemase-producing Gram-negative bacteria on the African continent are limited. Here, we report the identification of VIM-2-producing Pseudomonas aeruginosa isolates in Tanzania. Eight out of 90 clinical isolates of P. aeruginosa from a tertiary care hospital in Dar es Salaam were shown to harbor bla(VIM-2). The bla(VIM-2)-positive isolates belonged to two different...