Significance of Screening for Colonization and Vancomycin Resistance in Staphylococcus aureus Isolated from Anterior Nares of School Going Children

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Banking Deregulations, Financing Constraints and Firm Entry Size

We examine the effect of US branch banking deregulations on the entry size of new firms using micro-data from the US Census Bureau. We find that the average entry size for startups did not change following the deregulations. However, among firms that survived at least four years, a greater proportion of firms entered either at their maximum size or closer to the maximum size in the first year. The magnitude of these effects were small compared to the much larger changes in entry rates of small firms following the reforms. Our results highlight that this large-scale entry at the extensive margin can obscure the more subtle intensive margin effects of changes in financing constraints.entrepreneurship, entry size, financial constraints, banking.

Financing Constraints and Entrepreneurship

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Colored Pseudo-Goldstone Bosons and Gauge Boson Pairs

If the electroweak symmetry breaking sector contains colored particles weighing a few hundred GeV, then they will be copiously produced at a hadron supercollider. Colored technipions can rescatter into pairs of gauge bosons. As proposed by Bagger, Dawson, and Valencia, this leads to gauge boson pair rates far larger than in the standard model. In this note we reconsider this mechanism, and illustrate it in a model in which the rates can be reliably calculated. The observation of both an enhanced rate of gauge-boson-pair events and colored particles would be a signal that the colored particles were pseudo-Goldstone bosons of symmetry breaking.Comment: 10 pages, 2 figures not include

Human Dipylidiasis: A Case Report of Dipylidium caninum Infection from Karimnagar.

Dipylidium caninum also refered to as the double-pored tapeworm is a cyclophyllidean cestode that commonly infects dogs and cats. Mammals act as definite hosts with intermediate hosts being dog and cat flea, the Ctenocephalides canis and Ctenocephalides catis respectively. The dog lice, Trichodectes canis and human flea (Pulex irritans) also transmit Dipylidium caninum infection. Infants and young children are at high risk of acquiring infection. Majority of the infections are due to close association with pet dog and cats. Humans are accidental hosts who acquire infection by ingestion of infected dog and cat fleas. We report a rare case of Dipylidium caninum infection in a 9 year old girl who could have acquired infection by consuming food contaminated with infected fleas

Dimension Reduction via Colour Refinement

Colour refinement is a basic algorithmic routine for graph isomorphism testing, appearing as a subroutine in almost all practical isomorphism solvers. It partitions the vertices of a graph into "colour classes" in such a way that all vertices in the same colour class have the same number of neighbours in every colour class. Tinhofer (Disc. App. Math., 1991), Ramana, Scheinerman, and Ullman (Disc. Math., 1994) and Godsil (Lin. Alg. and its App., 1997) established a tight correspondence between colour refinement and fractional isomorphisms of graphs, which are solutions to the LP relaxation of a natural ILP formulation of graph isomorphism. We introduce a version of colour refinement for matrices and extend existing quasilinear algorithms for computing the colour classes. Then we generalise the correspondence between colour refinement and fractional automorphisms and develop a theory of fractional automorphisms and isomorphisms of matrices. We apply our results to reduce the dimensions of systems of linear equations and linear programs. Specifically, we show that any given LP L can efficiently be transformed into a (potentially) smaller LP L' whose number of variables and constraints is the number of colour classes of the colour refinement algorithm, applied to a matrix associated with the LP. The transformation is such that we can easily (by a linear mapping) map both feasible and optimal solutions back and forth between the two LPs. We demonstrate empirically that colour refinement can indeed greatly reduce the cost of solving linear programs

Photoplethysmography

The process of breathing occurs as a physiological cycle in which one nasal cavity is functionally active while the other is resting, i.e., breathing alternates between the nostrils according to a regular pattern referred to as the "nasal cycle" and this cycle has been found to have a profound effect on a number of brain functions. It is suspected that some cross coupling exists between the dominant nostril and the active cerebral hemisphere. It is believed that breathing has a profound effect on man's physical/psychological functioning and is the link between the body and the mind. Pranayama is a well-proven technique for controlled rhythmic breathing with beneficial effects reported both for the body and the mind. In this study the arterial blood volumetric changes from 10 normal breathing subjects and 30 subjects practicing pranayama are monitored non-invasively at the earlobes using optical sensors. This method is known as Photoplethysmography (PPG). Spectral analysis and Heart Rate Variability (HRV) studies are performed on the collected PPG data. The results show fundamental changes in the spectral components of the PPG signal in relation to the breathing brought about by pranayama. In addition, a bi-nasal respiratory airflow monitor is designed and developed for this study utilizing miniature thermistors that can be introduced into the two nostrils of the subject without causing discomfort to the subject. Another study is also reported in which changes in microcirculation in chakra points were studies as a result of concentration on these points. Results indicate the low frequency component around 0.18 Hz changes dramatically during these procedures. Concentration on heart increases the amplitude of the low frequency by about 4.5 times. Concentration on the eyebrow chakra increases the value of this component by about 3 times, but the curve is much broader showing more "power" in that band of frequencies. Since prana or chi is related to amount of blood flow, it is likely the increase in microcirculation is related to increase in prana, as suggested in ancient texts. Further work is contemplated to peruse this line of thinking through standard clinical methods

Photoplethysmography

The process of breathing occurs as a physiological cycle in which one nasal cavity is functionally active while the other is resting, i.e., breathing alternates between the nostrils according to a regular pattern referred to as the "nasal cycle" and this cycle has been found to have a profound effect on a number of brain functions. It is suspected that some cross coupling exists between the dominant nostril and the active cerebral hemisphere. It is believed that breathing has a profound effect on man's physical/psychological functioning and is the link between the body and the mind. Pranayama is a well-proven technique for controlled rhythmic breathing with beneficial effects reported both for the body and the mind. In this study the arterial blood volumetric changes from 10 normal breathing subjects and 30 subjects practicing pranayama are monitored non-invasively at the earlobes using optical sensors. This method is known as Photoplethysmography (PPG). Spectral analysis and Heart Rate Variability (HRV) studies are performed on the collected PPG data. The results show fundamental changes in the spectral components of the PPG signal in relation to the breathing brought about by pranayama. In addition, a bi-nasal respiratory airflow monitor is designed and developed for this study utilizing miniature thermistors that can be introduced into the two nostrils of the subject without causing discomfort to the subject. Another study is also reported in which changes in microcirculation in chakra points were studies as a result of concentration on these points. Results indicate the low frequency component around 0.18 Hz changes dramatically during these procedures. Concentration on heart increases the amplitude of the low frequency by about 4.5 times. Concentration on the eyebrow chakra increases the value of this component by about 3 times, but the curve is much broader showing more "power" in that band of frequencies. Since prana or chi is related to amount of blood flow, it is likely the increase in microcirculation is related to increase in prana, as suggested in ancient texts. Further work is contemplated to peruse this line of thinking through standard clinical methods

'Fair' Partitions of Polygons - an Introduction

We address the question: Given a positive integer $N$, can any 2D convex polygonal region be partitioned into $N$ convex pieces such that all pieces have the same area and same perimeter? The answer to this question is easily `yes' for $N$=2. We prove the answer to be `yes' for $N$=4 and also discuss higher powers of 2.Comment: 7 pages. 1 figure. This version (v6) is mostly a formal reworking of the main proof in v2 which was uploaded in December 200

A Literature review on Balancing Workload in Cloud Computing

Cloud computing is the realistic evolution of information technology in a world that is learning to be more and more based on the division of work. Cloud computing offers many principles that are long accomplished in other industries to the IT. We focus on basic characteristics of cloud computing help you understand them. A pattern language is used to interconnecting set of cloud patterns. A cloud pattern is a small human readable document of a well-defined format describing a good solution to a cloud related problem. We studied and captured such patterns describing different types of clouds, the offerings they provide and how to build application with them. In this paper we mainly focus on different types of application workload patterns. Pattern for application workloads describe different user behavior resulting in changing utilization of IT resources hosting an application. Having motivated the need for cloud offerings to handle different workloads we introduce common cloud service models that describe different styles to offer IT resources on different levels of an application stack. Furthermore we also discuss how the corresponding service models and cloud deployment models enable the cloud computing properties