A screening study of the presence of metallo-beta-lactamases (IMP and VIM types and SPM-1) in isolates from different nonhospital sources was conducted, and it revealed the presence of bla(VIM-2), associated with the In58 class 1 integron, in two unrelated Pseudomonas aeruginosa strains from aquatic habitats. The results suggest that the hospital setting was the possible origin of these bla(VIM...

Package VIM allows to explore and to analyze the structure of missing values in data, as well as to produce high-quality graphics for publications. This paper illustrates an application of VIM to a highly complex data set – the European Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC). 1 The graphical user interface of VIM The graphical user interface (GUI) has been developed using the R pa...

Pseudomonas aeruginosa COL-1 was identified in a blood culture of a 39-year-old-woman treated with imipenem in Marseilles, France, in 1996. This strain was resistant to beta-lactams, including ureidopenicillins, ticarcillin-clavulanic acid, cefepime, ceftazidime, imipenem, and meropenem, but remained susceptible to the monobactam aztreonam. The carbapenem-hydrolyzing beta-lactamase gene of P. a...

In this paper, variational iteration method (VIM) is applied to obtain approximate analytical solution of the (2 + 1)-dimensional potential Kadomtsev-Petviashvili equation (PKP) without any discretization. Comparisons with the exact solutions reveal that VIM is very effective and convenient.

AIMS The present study aimed to examine the feasibility of detecting vimentin (VIM) methylation in the serum of patients with colorectal cancer (CRC) and to determine the effectiveness of a relatively simple, inexpensive, and non-invasive test performed in combination with the conventional carcinoembryonic antigen analysis. MATERIALS AND METHODS VIM methylation in the serum DNA of 242 patient...

The mechanisms used by antisense transcripts to regulate their corresponding sense mRNAs are not fully understood. Herein, we have addressed this issue for the vimentin (VIM) gene, a member of the intermediate filament family involved in cell and tissue integrity that is deregulated in different types of cancer. VIM mRNA levels are positively correlated with the expression of a previously uncha...

Seven Baladi goats of both sexes (9 to 24 months old) were used to describe the distribution pattern of ki-67, alpha smooth muscle actin (αSMA) and vimentin (VIM) in the reticulum and omasum. This study was carried out using the avidin-biotin immunoperoxidase method. Ki-67 immunostaining was restricted to the basal cells layer in the epithelia of both the reticulum and omasum, suggesting the im...

This study presents a theorem for resolving certain integrals. These integrals usually arise in the Correction Functional of Variational Iteration Method (VIM). Resolving these VIM enables accurate determination Lagrange multiplier method, which turn leads to faster convergence rate solution VIM. The begins with brief overview Multiplier and is followed by few experimental problems considered d...

Objectives We investigated the effects of deep brain stimulation (DBS) or lesions of the ventral intermediate nucleus (Vim) of the thalamus for spinocerebellar ataxia (SCA) and examined the pathophysiological role of neuronal activity of the Vim underlying ataxia. Methods Five patients with SCA with cortical atrophy (ages 60-69 years; 2 sporadic and three familial SCA) and five patients with ...