1Microbial Ecology and Biogeochemistry, Laboratoire d’Océanographie de Villefranche-sur-Mer, Université Paris 6 CNRS UMR 7093, Station Zoologique, BP 28, 06230 Villefranche-sur-Mer, France 2Ecosystèmes lagunaires, UMR 5119 CNRS-IFREMER-IRD, Université Montpellier II, Case 093, Place E. Bataillon, 34095 Montpellier Cedex 05, France 3Laboratoire Microorganismes: Génome et Environnement UMR CNRS 6...

Staphylococcus aureus strains (n = 50) causing complicated skin and skin structure infections produced various levels of phenol-soluble modulin alpha-type (PSMα) peptides; some produced more than twice that produced by the control strain (LAC USA300). TR-700 (oxazolidinone) and clindamycin strongly inhibited PSM production at one-half the MIC but exhibited weak to modest induction at one-fourth...

We demonstrate that modern detection methods are designed to identify only a sufficently accurate bounding box, rather than the best available one. To address this issue we propose a simple and fast modification to the existing methods called Fitness NMS. This method is tested with the DeNet model and obtains a significantly improved MAP at greater localization accuracies without a loss in eval...

There are two major challenges for a high-performance remote-sensing database. First, it must provide low-latency retrieval of very large volumes of spatio-temporal data. This requires effective declustering and placement of a multidimensional dataset onto a large disk farm. Second, the order of magnitude reduction in data-size due to postprocessing makes it imperative, from a performance persp...

A single nucleotide polymorphism that substitutes a serine for an asparagine at residue 700 in the Ca2+-binding repeats of thrombospondin-1 is associated with familial premature coronary heart disease. We expressed the Ca2+-binding repeats alone (Ca) or with the third epidermal growth factor-like module (E3Ca), without (Asn-700) or with (Ser-700) the disease-associated polymorphism. The intrins...

We propose a novel single shot object detection network named Detection with Enriched Semantics (DES). Our motivation is to enrich the semantics of object detection features within a typical deep detector, by a semantic segmentation branch and a global activation module. The segmentation branch is supervised by weak segmentation ground-truth, i.e., no extra annotation is required. In conjunctio...

The invention is a computerized mobile robot with an onboard internet web server, and a capability of establishing a first connection to a remote web browser on the internet for robotic control purposes, and a capability of establishing a second short range bi-directional digital radio connection to one or more nearby computerized digital radio equipped devices external to the robot. The short-...

sNN p 1⁄4 5.02 TeV. Events are selected with a dimuon pair produced either in the rapidity interval, in the laboratory frame, 2.5 < y < 4 (p-Pb) or −3.6 < y < −2.6 (Pb-p), and no other particles observed in the ALICE acceptance. The measured cross sections σðγ þ p → J=ψ þ pÞ are 33.2 2.2ðstatÞ 3.2ðsystÞ 0.7ðtheorÞ nb in p-Pb and 284 36ðstatÞþ27 −32 ðsystÞ 26ðtheorÞ nb in Pb-p collisions. We mea...

Two environmentally safe iron compounds (synthetic magnetite and ferrous gluconate) have been evaluated as sulphide scavengers at temperature conditions of 25 °C, 35 °C, 45 °C and 55 °C at pH of 12 in a sulphide-contaminated drilling mud. The ferrous complex was found to be a better scavenger than synthetic magnetite. It exhibited 100 % scavenging efficiency within the first 40 minutes of agita...