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Showing 1 to 20 of 102 for “"MICS"”.
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St. Jude Medical: Enhanced MICS (eMICS)
… GHz band based asynchronized wakeup and 400 MHz MICS band based synchronized wakeup. The 2.45 GHz band based wakeup has limited wakeup range and the 400 MHz MICS based synchronized wakeup has limited availability for connection because it requires synchronization with the base station. The …
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Beyond MICS: Determining the Role of Porin Production and β-Lactamase Expression in Resistance and Cellular Physiology of Klebsiella pneumoniae
… and expression evaluated by rt RT PCR. MICs to cefotaxime, ceftazidime, cefepime, ceftolozane/tazobactam, ceftazidime/avibactam, meropenem, meropenem-vaborbactam, and imipenem-relebactam were determined by E-test using CLSI guidelines. β-lactamase clones were generated by restriction …
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Development, Characterization, and Fundamental Studies on Molecular Ionic Composites and PBDT Hydrogels
… materials termed "molecular ionic composites" (MICs). MICs show promise as next-generation solid electrolytes for batteries. MICs form when mixing a rigid polyanion with purely ionic fluids, and they behave mechanically as a solid but contain a high density of ions that move nearly as in a neat …
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Low Power Merged LNA and Mixer Design for Medical Implant Communication Services
The FCC allocated the spectrum of 402-405 MHz for MICS (Medical Implant Communication Services) applications in 1999. The regulations for MICS band apply to devices that support the diagnostic and/or therapeutic functions associated with implanted medical electronics. The implanted devices aid …
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Investigation of the effects of antifolates on Escherichia coli 1810.
… (OM) permeability showed that 1/4 and 3/4 MICs of either SD or TMP alone or combined against both E.coli strains altered the OM permeability. It was unlikely that 3/4 MICs of either SD or TMP alone and combined altered the cytoplasmic membrane (CM) permeability of either E.coli strain. …
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Studies on the effects of sub-minimal inhibitory concentrations of antibiotics on the virulence factors of biofilm bacteria
… that sub-minimal inhibitory concentrations (sub-MICs) of antibiotics are able to negatively modulate pathogenicity. However, more recent findings suggest a biofilm basis of infection. In this study, monospecies and binary biofilms of <i>Pseudomonas aeruginosa</i> ATCC 15692 (PAOl) and …
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Identification and characterisation of bacterial genes associated with resistance to and/or degradation of environmental pollutants
… site. Minimum Inhibitory Concentration assays (MICs) were previously performed on Alcaligenes sp. AO22 and Arthrobacter sp. E9 and they were found to be resistant to varying levels of heavy metals and polymerase chain reactions suggesting the presence of mercury (mer), copper (pco) and cadmium, …
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Pseudomonas aeruginosa OprD-Family Porins Facilitate Imipenem Translocation Resulting in AmpC β-Lactamase Induction Contributing to the Effectiveness of Imipenem/Relebactam
… were found to contribute very little to imipenem MICs and were not an accurate predictor of the impact relebactam had on imipenem MICs. However, loss of OprD correlated with imipenem nonsusceptibility. Protein production was the strongest indicator and resolved discordant phenotypes observed in …
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Design, Fabrication and Characterization of a Microfluidic Device for Ultrasound-based Cell Sorting
… antigens for cell identification and separation. MiCS (Microbubble Cell Sorting) is a new technique that overcomes the limitations of existing cell sorting techniques by using ultrasound traveling waves and microbubble tags. A microfluidic device consisting of a flow channel was developed for …
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An Evaluation of Different Risk Ranking Systems for Contaminated Sites
… Methods for Inventories of Contaminated Sites (MICS) and New Zealand’s Risk Screening System (RSS) methods are assessed in this thesis. These methods were compared with each other and with the Canada’s National Classification System for Contaminated Sites (NCSCS) as well as a preliminary …
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Molecular and Genomic Based Insights Into The Evolution of Enterococcus Faecium From Commensal to Hospital-Adapted Pathogen
… and minimal inhibitory concentrations (MICs) which showed clinical isolates possess virulence and antibiotic resistance determinants that are less abundant or lacking in community isolates. I also revealed that the level of ampicillin resistance increased over time in clinical strains. …
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Wireless Communication with Medical Implants: Antennas and Propagation
… application is the newly standardized 400 MHz MICS band, which has the benefit of being reserved mainly for medical and metrological applications. In addition, the 2.45 GHz ISM band is a possibility, but has the drawback of being heavily used by other applications, such as wireless computer …
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The effect of subinhibitory concentrations of antibiotics on virulence factors of <i>Staphylococcus aureus</i> biofilms
… this microorganism. Exposure of bacteria to sub-MICs of antibiotics is often encountered clinically, therefore, the effect of sub-MICs on staphylococcal virulence has been well studied on planktonic forms. Nevertheless, few studies have investigated the alteration of biofilm virulence under …
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Understanding and Improving Electrode|Polymer Electrolyte Interfaces for High-Voltage Lithium Metal Batteries
… techniques to elucidate interfacial dynamics in PE-based SSBs and demonstrate a strategy to improve cell performance. Our findings reveal a critical distinction between morphologically conformal and ionically conformal interfaces, underscoring that physical conformity alone does not …
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Preparation, Characterization, and Application of Molecular Ionic Composites for High Performance Batteries
… in such materials. Molecular ionic composites (MICs) are a new type of rigid polymer gel electrolyte based on ionic liquids (ILs) and a double helical rigid-rod polyamide, poly(2,2′-disulfonyl-4,4′-benzidine terephthalamide) (PBDT). MICs have high ionic conductivity, high thermal and …
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Mechanisms of resistance to β-lactam antibiotics in Streptomycetes
… strains belong to the species Streptomyces. The MICs and MBCs for penicillin G for the isolated Streptomyces strains were measured by plate culture. Some strains showed growth up to 400 μg/ml with penicillin G, which indicate that the strains were highly resistant against penicillin G. Some …
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Pressão seletiva antimicrobiana e a expressão da resistência à oxacilina em Staphylococcus aureus
… de concentrações subinibitórias (sub-MICs) nos mais variados ambientes, impondo uma pressão seletiva sobre a bactéria e favorecendo sua evolução genética, como resposta ao estresse ambiental. Por esse motivo, o estudo teve como objetivo avaliar in vitro a influência da pressão seletiva …
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QUB-1985: a bioactive peptide from the frog skin secretion of Odorrana livida
… bacteria) and Candida albicans (fungi), and the MICs are 4, 8 and 16 μM respectively. Meanwhile, the cytotoxicity of QUB-1985 on horse red blood cells was rather low with a haemolysis of about 30% at the concentration up to 256 μM, which is more than 16-fold of the MICs against the three model …
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Development of Novel Synergistic Therapeutic Strategies to Combat Antimicrobial Resistance: Critical Roles for Natural Products
… (TLC-DB). Minimum Inhibitory Concentrations (MICs) of the EOs ranged from 0.29-35.20 mg/mL and MICs of the EO components ranged from 0.99-500.92 mM. A 3D quantitative structure-activity relationship was also constructed for the EO components, which suggested that ligand efficiency and …
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The Association between Identity and Student Engagement in Engineering Undergraduate Students
… of Identity Commitments Scale (U-MICS) to assess college engineering identity and (2) to explore the relations of engineering identity with three facets of college student engagement (i.e., effort, course choice, and persistence). Methods: Two hundred and forty-one engineering …
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