Central-line-associated bloodstream infection (CLABSI) is one of the most important problems in intensive care units (ICUs) worldwide. A bundle of CLABSI care measures was introduced at a 13-bed medical/surgical ICU in Kocaeli, Turkey in January 2010. Compliance rates with the bundle were measured at the beginning of the third quarter of 2010 until June 2013 and compared with CLABSI rates. Duri...

We introduce a symplectic structure on the space of connections in a G-principal bundle over a four-manifold and the Hamiltonian action on it of the group of gauge transformations which are trivial on the boundary. The symplectic reduction becomes the moduli space of flat connections over the manifold. On the moduli space of flat connections we shall construct a hermitian line bundle with conne...

Geodesic rays of class C1,1 are constructed for any test configuration of a positive line bundle L → X, using resolution of singularities. The construction reduces to finding a subsolution of the corresponding Monge-Ampère equation. Geometrically, this is accomplished by the use a positive line bundle on the resolution which is trivial outside of the exceptional divisor.

We define heat kernel measure on punctured spheres. The random field which is got by this procedure is not Gaussian. We define a stochastic line bundle on the loop space, such that the punctured sphere corresponds to a generalized parallel transport on this line bundle. Markov property along the sewing loops corresponds to an operadic structure of the stochastic W.Z.N.W. model.

We prove that a smooth complex projective threefold with a Kähler metric of negative holomorphic sectional curvature has ample canonical line bundle. In dimensions greater than three, we prove that, under equal assumptions, the nef dimension of the canonical line bundle is maximal. With certain additional assumptions, ampleness is again obtained. The methods used come from both complex differen...

Let A and B be very ample line bundles on a projective toric variety. Then, it is proved that the multiplication map Γ(A)⊗ Γ(B) → Γ(A⊗B) of global sections of the two bundles is surjective. As a consequence, it is showed that any very ample line bundle on a projective toric variety is normally generated. As an application we show that any ample line bundle on a toric Calabi-Yau hypersurface is ...

PURPOSE To define the positions of the attachments of the anteromedial (AM) and posterolateral (PL) bundles of the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL). METHODS The shape and positions of the femoral and tibial attachments of the 2 bundles relative to bony landmarks were measured in 7 fresh-frozen, unpaired cadaveric knees by 6 independent observers. Metallic marker beads were then inserted into ...

A necessary and sufficient condition is given for semi-ampleness of a nef and big line bundle in positive characteristic. One application is to the geometry of the universal stable curve over Mg , specifically, the semi-ampleness of the relative dualizing sheaf, in positive characteristic. An example is given which shows this, and the semi-ampleness criterion, fail in characteristic zero. A sec...

A necessary and sufficient condition is given for semi-ampleness of a numerically effective (nef) and big line bundle in positive characteristic. One application is to the geometry of the universal stable curve over Mg, specifically, the semi-ampleness of the relative dualizing sheaf, in positive characteristic. An example is given which shows this and the semi-ampleness criterion fail in chara...