Background.This prospective cohort study presents the effectiveness and feasibility of a comprehensive control strategy to reduce nosocomial transmission of methicillinresistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in a highly endemic setting.Methods.All patients with MRSA carriage admitted to the University Clinic of Respiratory and Allergic Diseases over
High energy consumption, rising environmental concerns and depleting fossil fuels demand an increase in clean energy production.The enhanced resiliency, efficiency and reliability offered by microgrids with distributed energy resources (DERs) have shown to be a promising alternative to the conventional grid system.Large-sized commercial customers l
Carotid-cavernous fistula (CCF) is an aberrant communication short code 26096 between the main trunk or branches of carotid artery and the cavernous sinus.Most of the cases of CCF occur following head trauma, but congenital and spontaneous cases have been reported.We report an interesting case of bilateral CCF with no history of trauma, thus most l
A nano/ultra-fine grain Al-0.2wt% Zr alloy was produced by accumulated roll bonding (ARB) processafter 10 cycles.The fraction of high angle grain boundaries increased from 8% to 65.4% during 10passes during ARB process.This alloy was subjected to tensile test at different temperatures (523,573and 623 K) and strain rates (0.1 and 0.01 s-1).The optim
The stable hadronic bound states in a hidden new non-Abelian gauge sector provide interesting candidates for strongly-interacting Dark Matter (DM).A particular example are theories in which DM is made up of dark pions which set the weboost splitter DM relic abundance through self-annihilation.One of the simplest realizations is Sp(4)c gauge theory