Publications by authors named "P S Bustos"

Unlabelled: The Surveillance Network for Influenza and Other Respiratory Viruses (SARInet) has played a crucial role in improving the capacity of Latin American countries to monitor and respond to events with potential public health impact. This perspective compiles and analyzes case studies from several countries in the Americas to illustrate the challenges faced prior to the creation of SARInet, the interventions implemented, and the impacts achieved.

Methodology: This study is based on a series of cases from 12 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean.

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  • This study focused on the effects of specific lipopolysaccharide (LPS) genes in Rhizobium etli on the ability of phages to infect the bacteria.
  • Disruption of the wreU and wreV genes led to different outcomes: wreU mutants could still adsorb and get infected by phages, while wreV mutants could adsorb but were resistant to infection.
  • The reintroduction of wreU and wreV genes restored phage susceptibility in wreV mutants, but only if they also had their native LPS-encoding plasmid, suggesting that complete LPS assembly is crucial for phage infection.
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We introduce both conceptual and empirical findings arising from the amalgamation of a robotics cognitive architecture with an embedded physics simulator, aligning with the principles outlined in the intuitive physics literature. The employed robotic cognitive architecture, named CORTEX, leverages a highly efficient distributed working memory known as deep state representation. This working memory inherently encompasses a fundamental ontology, state persistency, geometric and logical relationships among elements, and tools for reading, updating, and reasoning about its contents.

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is a bacterial genus that can be found in various environments, such as water, soil, and clinical samples. Due to their high genetic and phenotypic diversity, it is difficult to properly identify and classify all isolates. The COVID-19 pandemic caused an increase in nosocomial infections, which played a major role in the high mortality rate among patients in intensive care.

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