To the Editor: Legionnaires’ disease is a systemic infection caused by gram-negative bacteria belonging to the genus Legionella. The primary clinical manifestation is pneumonia. Legionella spp. are typically found in natural and artificially hydrated environments. Legionella pneumophila is the species responsible for ≈90% of human cases of infection. L. pneumophila is divided into 15 serogroups...

The genes coding for the two type I collagen chains, which are active selectively in osteoblasts, odontoblasts, fibroblasts, and some mesenchymal cells, constitute good models for studying the mechanisms responsible for the cell-specific activity of genes which are expressed in a small number of discrete cell types. To test whether separate genetic elements could direct the activity of the mous...

We present a review of elastography from a systems standard medical practice of soft-tissue palpation is based on point of view. We show that elastography can be viewed as a cascade qualitative assessment of the low-frequency stiffness of tissue. of two distinct processes. The first process involves the mapping of Pathologic changes are generally correlated with changes in the distribution of l...

Towards a Sentient Obje t Model Adrian Fitzpatri k, Gregory Biegel, Siobh an Clarke, Vinny Cahill Distributed Systems Group Department of Computer S ien e University of Dublin, Trinity College Dublin 2, Ireland ffirstname.lastnameg s.t d.ie 1Abstra t|A sentient obje t is a mobile, intelligent software omponent whi h is able to sense its environment via sensors and rea t to sensed information vi...

Eo si nop hil ca tio nic pro tein (ECP) is a he te ro ge neous mo le cu le ori gi na ti ng from ac ti va ted eo si nop hil gra nu lo cytes. Bio lo gi cal ac ti vi ty and the cel lu lar con te nt of ECP are de ter mi ned by ge ne tic and pos ttran sla tio nal fac to rs. Se ve ral sin gle nuc leo ti de po lymor phis ms (SNPs) in hu man ECP ge ne (RNASE3) ha ve been des cri bed so far. ECP is a me...

Regulation of the procollagen type I (Proal) gene in cultured Ito cells by diverse cytokines was studied. Specifically, we have examined the effect of interleukin-1/3 (IL-lf¡), tumor necrosis factor a (TNFa), and transforming growth factor /3 (TGF/3) on collagen biosynthesis, levéis of Proal(I) mRNA, and rate of transcription of Proa 1(1) gene. TGF/? stimulated procollagen synthesis at least 2-...

This 1)aper focuses on the issue of named entity chunking in Japanese named entity recognition. We apply the SUl)ervised decision list lean> ing method to Japanese named entity recognition. We also investigate and in(:ori)orate several named-entity noun phrase chunking tech.niques and experimentally evaluate and con> t)are their l)erfornlanee, ill addition, we t)rot)ose a method for incorporati...

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Word sense disambugation has recently been utilized in corpus-based aI)proaches, reflecting the growth in the number of nmehine readable texts. One (:ategory ()f al)l)roa(:hes disambiguates an input verb sense based on the similarity t)etween its governing (:its(; fillers and those in given examl)les. In this palter , we introdu<:c the degree of (:<mtriblltion of cast; to verb sells(', disambig...

tents reduces yield, while feeding scars and holes on testa reduce the quality and marketability of pea seed. The pea weevil, Bruchus pisorum (L.) (Coleoptera: Bruchidae), is In addition, weevil-damaged seed has lower germination one of the most intractable pest problems of cultivated pea, Pisum sativum L. The availability of resistant cultivars would give growers rates and is prone to structur...