Aimed at an audience of researchers and graduate students in computational geometry and
algorithm design, this book uses the Geometric Spanner Network Problem to showcase a …

Microbiomes are ubiquitous and are found in the ocean, the soil, and in/on other living
organisms. Changes in the microbiome can impact the health of the environmental niche in which …

Background Partial Least-Squares Discriminant Analysis (PLS-DA) is a popular machine
learning tool that is gaining increasing attention as a useful feature selector and classifier. In an …

Extracellular polymers can facilitate the non-specific attachment of bacteria to surfaces and
hold together developing biofilms. This study was undertaken to qualitatively and …

Following the initial surges of the Alpha (B.1.1.7) and the Beta (B.1.351) variants, a more
infectious Delta variant (B.1.617.2) is now surging, further deepening the health crises caused …

One of the hallmarks of the Gram-negative bacterium Pseudomonas aeruginosa is its ability
to thrive in diverse environments that includes humans with a variety of debilitating diseases …

Facility location problems are traditionally investigated with the assumption that all the clients
are to be provided service. A signi cant shortcoming of this formulation is that a few very …

Otitis media (OM) is an inflammation of the middle ear associated with infection. Despite
appropriate therapy, acute OM (AOM) can progress to chronic suppurative OM (CSOM) …

Let G=(V,E) be an n-vertex connected graph with positive edge weights. A subgraph G′ = (V,E′)
is a t-spanner of G if for all u, v ε V,the weighted distance between u and v in G′ is at …

In Enterobacteriaceae, the transcriptional regulator AmpR, a member of the LysR family,
regulates the expression of a chromosomal β-lactamase AmpC. The regulatory repertoire of …