Abstract Plasmids incur a fitness cost that has the potential to restrict the dissemination of resistance in bacterial pathogens.However, bacteria can overcome this disadvantage by compensatory evolution to maintain their resistance.Compensatory evolution can occur via both chromosomes and plasmids, but there are a few reviews regarding this topic,
An Efficient Dummy-Based Location Privacy-Preserving Scheme for Internet of Things Services
With the rapid development of GPS-equipped smart mobile devices and mobile computing, location-based services (LBS) are increasing in popularity in the Internet of Things (IoT).Although LBS provide enormous benefits to users, they inevitably introduce some significant privacy concerns.To protect user privacy, a variety of location privacy-preservin
Power and Representation in The Jakarta Post’s Article on UGM Rape Case Settlement
In 2019, a rape case involving two students of UGM went viral.After being headlines in many news articles, the case was settled in February, and one of the newspapers which cover this news is The Jakarta Post who released an article entitled ‘UGM settles alleged sexual abuse case’.Through systemic functional grammar, this study attempts at anal
Point-of-care viscoelastic coagulation assessment in healthy dogs during the perianesthetic period
Abstract Background The viscoelastic coagulation monitor (VCM Vet) is a novel, portable device that provides a global assessment of hemostasis.The study aims were to evaluate serial viscoelastic analysis during the perianesthetic period in healthy dogs and to compare the agreement between two VCM Vet devices.Twenty healthy dogs undergoing orthopedi
Effect of noise on the performance of arthroscopic simulator
Background: Noise is omnipresent in the operating room.The average noise in the operating room generally ranges between 60 and 65 dB and can sometimes exceed 100 dB, despite the ARS (Agence Régionale de Santé) and WHO (World Health Organization) recommending levels of 35 dB(A).This study aimed to evaluate the effect of different kinds of backg