Escherichia coli is the most important etiological agent of urinary tract infections (UTIs). Unlike uropathogenic E. coli, which causes symptomatic infections, asymptomatic bacteriuria (ABU) E. coli strains typically lack essential virulence factors and colonize the bladder in the absence of symptoms. While ABU E. coli can persist in the bladder for long periods of time, little is known about t...

Editor’s note: This article introduces a new stochastic number generator module with low autocorrelation properties. is systematically compared earlier proposals regarding its implementation cost, theoretical properties, and performance in specific application: Bayesian sensor fusion. xmlns:xli...

Abu Mansur's Al-Abniya a pioneering work on pharmacological treatise in Persian language, has not received the attention that it richly deserves. This work provides as a starting point to probe into the hitherto neglected field of study regarding the relationship of medical systems prevalent in Central, West and South Asia-Greco-Syriac, Iranian and Ayurvedic medical sciences.

It has been recently suggested by Arkani-Hamed, Dimopoulos and Dvali that gravity may become strong at energies not far above the electroweak scale and thus remove the hierarchy problem. Such a scenario can be tested at both present and future accelerators since towers of Kaluza-Klein gravitons and associated scalar fields now play an important phenomenological role. In this paper we examine se...

1Division of Science and Math and Center for Genomics and Systems Biology (CGSB), New York University Abu Dhabi, P.O. Box 129188, Abu Dhabi, UAE 2Center for Systems Biology and Faculty of Industrial Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Computer Science, School of Engineering and Natural Sciences, University of Iceland, 101 Reykjavik, Iceland 3National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and ...

Normal face-based judgements of social characteristics despite severely impaired holistic face processing Susanne Quadflieg a c , Alexander Todorov b , Renaud Laguesse c & Bruno Rossion c a Division of Psychology, New York University Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, UAE b Department of Psychology, Princeton University, Princeton, USA c Department of Psychology, University of Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Bel...

Junfeng Geng, Ilia A Solov’yov, and David G. Reid, Paul Skelton, Andrew E. H. Wheatley, Andrey V. Solov’yov and Brian F. G. Johnson 1Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB2 1EW (United Kingdom) 2Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Ruth-Moufang-Str. 1, 60438 Frankfurt (Germany) and 3A. F. Ioffe Physical-Technical Institute, Politechnicheskaya 26, 194021 St. Petersb...

Chronic bacteriuria is a common occurrence among spinal-cord injury patients and others with neuropathic bladders. If bacteria are present in the urinary tract, the patient may develop symptoms of infection or remain asymptomatic. We have compared virulence properties of 28 Escherichia coli isolates from patients with symptomatic urinary tract infections (UTI) and 29 E. coli isolates from patie...

The Technology Readiness Index (TRI) developed by Parasuraman (2000) was adapted to measure the technology readiness of public school teachers in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. The study aims at better understanding the factors (mostly demographics) that affect such readiness levels. In addition, Abu Dhabi teachers are segmented into five main groups, with the highest percentage being “laggar...