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How do Candida glabrata´s biofilms respond to antifungal drugs?
Candida species are responsible for recurrent human infections, mostly in immunocompromised patients, due to their high vulnerability. Candida glabrata has been shown to have a major role in these infections being the second most prevalent species involved in human fungemia. Objective: To understand the effect of three different antifungal agents Fluconazole (Flu), Amphotericin B (AmB) and Caspofungin (Csf) - in C. glabratas biofilm formation, specially their role on matrix composition.Programa Operacional, Fatores de competitividade –
COMPETE and by national funds through
FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e a
Tecnologia on the scope of the projects FCT
PTDC/SAU-MIC/119069/2010, RECI/EBB-
EBI/0179/2012, PEst-OE/EQB/LA0023/2013
Project “BioHealth -
Biotechnology and Bioengineering
approachesto improvehealthquality",Ref.
NORTE-07-0124-FEDER-000027, co-funded
by the Programa Operacional Regional do
Norte (ON.2 – O Novo Norte), QREN,
FEDE
The -rational -Catalan polynomials for and their -symmetry
We introduce a new statistic, skip, on rational -Dyck paths and define
a marked rank word for each path when is not a multiple of 3. If a triple
of valid statistics (area,skip,dinv) are given, we have an algorithm to
construct the marked rank word corresponding to the triple. By considering all
valid triples we give an explicit formula for the -rational
-Catalan polynomials when . Then there is a natural bijection on the
triples of statistics (area,skips,dinv) which exchanges the statistics area and
dinv while fixing the skip. Thus we prove the -symmetry of
-rational -Catalan polynomials for .Comment: 11 pages, 4 figure
Torsional rigidity for regions with a Brownian boundary
Let be the -dimensional unit torus, . The torsional
rigidity of an open set is the integral with respect to
Lebesgue measure over all starting points of the expected
lifetime in of a Brownian motion starting at . In this paper we
consider , the complement of the path
of an independent Brownian motion up to time . We compute the
leading order asymptotic behaviour of the expectation of the torsional rigidity
in the limit as . For the main contribution comes from the
components in whose inradius is comparable to the
largest inradius, while for most of
contributes. A similar result holds for after the Brownian path is
replaced by a shrinking Wiener sausage of radius
, provided the shrinking is slow enough to ensure that
the torsional rigidity tends to zero. Asymptotic properties of the capacity of
in and in , , play a central role
throughout the paper. Our results contribute to a better understanding of the
geometry of the complement of Brownian motion on , which has received a
lot of attention in the literature in past years.Comment: 26 pages, 1 figur
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Mass casualty events: what to do as the dust settles?
Care during mass casualty events (MCE) has improved during the last 15 years. Military and civilian collaboration has led to partnerships which augment the response to MCE. Much has been written about strategies to deliver care during an MCE, but there is little about how to transition back to normal operations after an event. A panel discussion entitled The Day(s) After: Lessons Learned from Trauma Team Management in the Aftermath of an Unexpected Mass Casualty Event at the 76th Annual American Association for the Surgery of Trauma meeting on September 13, 2017 brought together a cadre of military and civilian surgeons with experience in MCEs. The events described were the First Battle of Mogadishu (1993), the Second Battle of Fallujah (2004), the Bagram Detention Center Rocket Attack (2014), the Boston Marathon Bombing (2013), the Asiana Flight 214 Plane Crash (2013), the Baltimore Riots (2015), and the Orlando Pulse Night Club Shooting (2016). This article focuses on the lessons learned from military and civilian surgeons in the days after MCEs
On the geometry of almost -manifolds
An -structure on a manifold is an endomorphism field satisfying
. We call an -structure {\em regular} if the distribution
is involutive and regular, in the sense of Palais. We show that
when a regular -structure on a compact manifold is an almost
-structure, as defined by Duggal, Ianus, and Pastore, it determines a torus
fibration of over a symplectic manifold. When \rank T = 1, this result
reduces to the Boothby-Wang theorem. Unlike similar results due to
Blair-Ludden-Yano and Soare, we do not assume that the -structure is normal.
We also show that given an almost -structure, we obtain an
associated Jacobi structure, as well as a notion of symplectization.Comment: 12 pages, title change, minor typo corrections, to appear in ISRN
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