Cutaneous malignant melanoma (CMM) is a serious type of cancer accounting for 75% of all deaths associated with skin cancer (Jerant et al., 2000). CMM incidence has dramatically increased in the past few decades and, recently, approximately 160,000 new cases of CMMs are diagnosed worldwide each year (Ries et al., 2003). In 2010, the American Cancer Society estimated that 68,130 cases of melanom...

Because the incidence of cutaneous malignant melanoma (CMM) was reported to increase with increasing terrestrial UVR (290-400 nm) doses in the US back in 1975 and a recent publication showed no association exists with UVR exposure at all, we set out to fully elucidate the role of UVR in CMM. To achieve this goal, we analyzed the CMM incidences over latitude and estimated the average personal UV...

BACKGROUND A body mass index (BMI) ≥30 kg/m(2) and a waist circumference (WC) ≥80 cm in women (WCF) or ≥90 cm in men (WCM) are reference cardiometabolic risk markers (CMM) for Mexicans adults. However, their reliability to predict other CMM (index tests) in young Mexicans has not been studied in depth. METHODS A cross-sectional descriptive study evaluating several anthropometric, physiologica...

The Capability Maturity Model (CMM) developed by the Software Engineering Institute is an improvement paradigm. It provides a framework for assessing the maturity of software processes on a five level scale, and guidelines which help to improve software process and artifact quality. Moving towards CMM Level 4 and Level 5, is a very demanding task even for large software companies already accust...

Clavibacter michiganensis subsp. michiganensis (Cmm) causes bacterial wilt and canker of tomato. Currently, no Solanum lycopersicum resistant varieties are commercially available, but some degree of Cmm resistance has been identified in Solanum peruvianum. Previous research showed up-regulation of a SUMO E2 conjugating enzyme (SCEI) transcript in S. peruvianum compared to S. lycopersicum follow...

The incidence of cutaneous malignant melanoma (CMM) has been increasing at a steady rate in fair-skinned populations around the world for decades. Scientists are not certain why CMM has been steadily increasing, but strong, intermittent UVB (290-320 nm) exposures, especially sunburn episodes, probably initiate, CMM, while UVA (321-400 nm) passing through glass windows in offices and cars probab...

This paper presents an analysis of Correlation Matrix Memory (CMM), a binary associative neural network. CMM has been proposed as an inference engine, which could be utilized in an expert system (Austin, 1994). In this role, CMM encodes Tensor Products (Smolensky, 1990) to support Dynamic Variable Binding. The ability to perform partial match efficiently, with a large body of stored information...

Solar ultraviolet (UV) radiation is the main source of vitamin D production and is also the most important environmental risk factor for cutaneous malignant melanoma (CMM) development. In the present study the relationships between daily or seasonal UV radiation doses and vitamin D status, dietary vitamin D intake and CMM incidence rates at different geographical latitudes were investigated. No...

MOTIVATION Tissue microarrays (TMAs) quantify tissue-specific protein expression of cancer biomarkers via high-density immuno-histochemical staining assays. Standard analysis approach estimates a sample mean expression in the tumor, ignoring the complex tissue-specific staining patterns observed on tissue arrays. METHODS In this article, a cell mixture model (CMM) is proposed to reconstruct t...

The Capability Maturity Model for Software (CMM) has evolved significantly since publication of the software process maturity framework in 1987. The intent of CMM Version 1.0 was to formalize and elaborate the concepts of software process maturity, making them more accessible to the software community. The intent of the CMM Version 1.1 was to do a minor revision that would improve the consisten...