The asymmetric location of stereociliary bundle (hair bundle) on the apical surface of mechanosensory hair cells (HCs) dictates the direction in which a given HC can respond to cues such as sound, head movements, and water pressure. Notably, vestibular sensory organs of the inner ear, the maculae, exhibit a line of polarity reversal (LPR) across which, hair bundles are polarized in a mirror-ima...

OBJECTIVE To investigate whether a multidisciplinary, best-practice central line maintenance care bundle reduces central line-associated blood stream infection (CLABSI) rates in hospitalized pediatric oncology patients and to further delineate the epidemiology of CLABSIs in this population. METHODS We performed a prospective, interrupted time series study of a best-practice bundle addressing ...

The Chow ring of a smooth algebraic variety V , denoted CH∗(V ), is an analogue of the cohomology ring that is more closely related to the algebraic, rather than topological, aspects of the variety. For a d-dimensional abelian variety A over a field k, let  = Pic(A) be its dual, the variety parameterising principal line bundles on A, and for a ∈  denote the line bundle parameterised by a as L...

BACKGROUND Knowledge about the impact of each central line insertion bundle on central line-associated bloodstream infection (CLABSI) is limited. METHODS A quality-improvement intervention, including education, central venous catheter (CVC) insertion bundle, process and outcome surveillance, have been introduced since March 2013. Outcome surveillances, including CLABSI per 1,000 catheter-days...

We obtain a vanishing theorem for the half-kernel of a Dirac operator on a Clifford module twisted by a sufficiently large power of a line bundle, whose curvature is non-degenerate at any point of the base manifold. In particular, if the base manifold is almost complex, we prove a vanishing theorem for the half-kernel of a spinc Dirac operator twisted by a line bundle with curvature of a mixed ...

We obtain a vanishing theorem for the kernel of a Dirac operator on a Clifford module twisted by a sufficiently large power of a line bundle, whose curvature is non-degenerate at any point of the base manifold. In particular, if the base manifold is almost complex, we prove a vanishing theorem for the kernel of a spinc Dirac operator twisted by a line bundle with curvature of a mixed sign. In t...