Abstract Background Consensus guidelines caution against colistin (COL) monotherapy due to efficacy and resistance development concerns. The COL + meropenem (MEM) combination often displays in vitro synergy carbapenem-resistant (CR) Gram-negative bacilli (GNB). We recently completed a clinical trial comparing outcomes patients receiving vs. MEM. Herein we assess if, amongst MEM, differed as fun...

This document gives an overview of the algorithms available for transcoding from MPEG2 to H.264 and transrating within H.264. After a brief review of the state of the art, new algorithms are proposed. An in depth analysis of these transcoding and transrating algorithms is provided together with simulation results for various scenarios. This analysis is then used to define a recommended architec...

The objective of this paper is to study learning effects on maintenance outsourcing. We consider a situation in which a manufacturer offers a short-term outsourcing contract to an external contractor who is responsible for scheduling and performing preventive maintenance and carrying out minimal repairs when the process fails. The manufacturer’s payment to the contractor consists of a fixed amo...

In this paper, we investigate the existence and uniqueness of fuzzy solutions for semilinear fuzzy integrodifferential equations using integral contractor. The notion of ’bounded integral contractor’, introduced by Altman [1], is weaker than Lipschitz condition.

ABSTRACT Between 1995 and 2021, the United States’ Federal Government imposed $162.5 billion in penalties upon government contractors who had engaged improper behavior as part of procurement process. Despite enormity contractor misbehavior, characteristics associated with misconduct are relatively underexplored academic literature. In this study, we examine whether to what extent firm predict f...

In the recent times the study of signal propagation models are under continuous reviewand currently a lot of work is being done on prediction of path losses associated with different kinds of environments, but the exactness of each model deployed is valid only for a small frame of fixed parameters which are the fundamentals of it. An exact radio propagation model is important for coping up with...

Employee or independent contractor designation has significant tax implications for the Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist (CRNA). On superficial view, it appears that a CRNA who is medically directed would be under a number of controls that would force the CRNA to be in an employee status. However, on analysis, it seems that for tax purposes a CRNA can be medically directed while also bein...

dispute between contractor and broker over “the type and attribute of the wage” in contract leads to a controversy which many imamiehreligious experts believe that has no result but “bilateral oath-taking”. most important criteria of selecting bilateral oath-taking are: simultaneous positioning of contractor and broker in accuser and denier position, lack of common ground between the two sides ...