Pseudomonas aeruginosa is an opportunistic pathogen and is associated with nosocomial infections. Its ability to thrive in a broad range of environments is due to a large and diverse genome of which its accessory genome is part. The objective of this study was to characterize P. aeruginosa strains isolated from children who developed bacteremia, using pulse-field gel electrophoresis, and in ter...

Bacteria have developed an epigenetic phase variation mechanism to control cell surface pili-adhesin complexes between heritable expression (phase ON) and nonexpression (phase OFF) states. In the pyelonephritis-associated pili (pap) system, global regulators [catabolite gene activator protein (CAP), leucine-responsive regulatory protein (Lrp), DNA adenine methylase (Dam)] and local regulators (...

The purpose of the PAPI project is to specify a standard application programming interface (API) for accessing hardware performance counters available on most modern microprocessors. These counters exist as a small set of registers that count events, which are occurrences of specific signals related to the processor’s function. Monitoring these events facilitates correlation between the structu...

Angelo Corsico,1 Manlio Milanese,2 Simonetta Baraldo,3 Gian Luca Casoni,4 Alberto Papi,4 Anna Maria Riccio,2 Isa Cerveri,1 Marina Saetta,3 and Vito Brusasco2 2Dipartimento di Medicina Interna, Università di Genova, 16132 Genova; 1Clinica di Malattie dell’Apparato Respiratorio, IRCCS Policlinico S. Matteo, Università di Pavia, 27100 Pavia; 3Dipartimento di Medicina Clinica e Sperimentale, Sezion...

Underground trees are a rare clonal growth form. In this survey we describe the branching pattern and estimate the age of the underground tree Jacaranda decurrens Cham. (Bignoniaceae), an endangered species from the Brazilian Cerrado, with a crown diameter of 22 meters. The mean age calculated for the individual was 3,801 years, making it one of the oldest known living Neotropical plants.

La connaissance des événements passés constitue désormais un fondements de la gestion risques naturels. Ce travail présente les résultats d’une étude historique crues, réalisée dans le cadre l’élaboration d’un Programme d’Action et Prévention Inondations (PAPI) rivière française Meurthe. Une reconstitution hauteurs d’eau observées depuis début du XIXe siècle a été grâce à collecte d’analyse d’a...

Review of Felice Cimatti and Carlo Salzani, eds., Animality in Contemporary Italian Philosophy (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020)

Che Azemin, M., Hamid, F., Wang, J., Kawasaki, R., Kumar, D. (2016). Box-counting fractal dimension algorithm variations on retina images. In H.A. Sulaiman, M.A. Othman, M.F.I. Othman, Y.A. Rahim and N.C. Pee (Eds.), Advanced Computer and Communication Engineering Technology, Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, (pp. 337-343). Cham: Springer. <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-245...