background and objectives: we developed and evaluated the utility of a quadruplex taqman real-time pcr assay that allows simultaneous identification of vancomycin-resistant genotypes and clinically relevant enterococci. materials and methods: the specificity of the assay was tested using reference strains of vancomycin-resistant and susceptible enterococci. in total, 193 clinical isolates were ...

AbstTactTo separa te and recover multiple signals in da t a communications, an tenna a r rays and acoustic sensor arrays, t h e impulse responses of multiple-input/multiple-output (MIMO) channels have t o b e identified explicitly or implicitly. This paper deals with t h e blind identification of MIMO F I R channels based on second-order statistics of t h e channel outpu ts and i ts application...

Die Versorgungskette der Belieferung der Stationen und Bereiche im Krankenhaus mit Medikalprodukten und Medikamenten ist bislang kaum im Fokus der Betrachtung. Sowohl im Hinblick auf die Wirtschaftlichkeit als auch die Patientensicherheit spielt das Management der Supply Chain jedoch eine wesentliche Rolle. Daher wurde im Marienhospital Herne und Gemeinschaftskrankenhaus Herdecke ein Projekt mi...

Digital Government Infrastructures provide generic functionalities that are used by large numbers of users. Typically, they have no central authority, are governed by networks and contain both emerging and purposefully designed parts. Their use varies over time, and a large number of individuals use them for different purposes. The basic digital government infrastructure has evolved over time a...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to review the literature on information technology adoption in organizations to understand the need of integrated models for technology adoption. It further makes an attempt to identify key parameters to integrate technology acceptance model (TAM) and technology-organization-environment (TOE) framework for firm level technology adoption. This integration i...

Vitamin E (VE) is the generic term for four tocopherols and four tocotrienols that exhibit the biological activity of α-tocopherol. VE status, which is usually estimated by measuring fasting blood VE concentration, is affected by numerous factors, such as dietary VE intake, VE absorption efficiency, and VE catabolism. Several of these factors are in turn modulated by genetic variations in genes...

‘eGovernment for You’ (EGOV4U) was a European Commission (EC) funded project developed to pilot models of multi-channel, public and community e-services designed to tackle social exclusion and disadvantage through a range of initiatives delivered by five project partners from a variety of European countries. Project evaluation employed a theory driven approach and the use of mixed methods for d...

‘eGovernment for You’ (EGOV4U) was a European Commission (EC) funded project developed to pilot models of multi-channel, public and community e-services designed to tackle social exclusion and disadvantage through a range of initiatives delivered by five project partners from a variety of European countries. Project evaluation employed a theory driven approach and the use of mixed methods for d...

In order to improve the level of intelligence, availability, convenience, information and humanization of rural public transportation systems, they are more willing to use modern information and communicative technologies. In addition to management services, intelligent transportation systems can provide passengers, drivers and other institutions with other services such as trip planning, track...

Several scientific communities relying on e-science infrastructures are in need of persistent identifiers for data and contextual information. In this article, we present a framework for persistent identification that fundamentally supports context information. It is installed as a number of low-level requirements and abstract data type descriptions, flexible enough to envelope context informat...