EFFECTIVENESS OF VARIOUS CLEANING AND DISINFECTANT PRODUCTS ON CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE SPORES OF PCR RIBOTYPES 010, 014 AND 027

Effectiveness of various cleaning and disinfectant products on Clostridium difficile spores of PCR ribotypes 010, 014 and 027

Abstract Background In healthcare facilities, Clostridium difficile infections spread by transmission of bacterial spores.Appropriate sporicidal disinfectants are needed to prevent development of clusters and outbreaks.In this study different cleaning/disinfecting wipes and sprays were tested for their efficacy against spores of distinctive C.diffi

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Expectile Regression on Distributed Large-Scale Data

Large-scale data presents great challenges to data analysis due to the limited computer storage capacity and the heterogeneous data structure.In this article, we propose a distributed expectile regression model to resolve the challenges of large-scale data by malibu relaxer designing a surrogate loss function and using the Iterative Local Alternati

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