OBJECTIVES To assess the epidemiology, antibiotic resistance and genotypic characterization of group A streptococci (GAS) in Jinju, Korea. METHODS Isolates were characterized in terms of their antibiotic resistance, the phenotypes of erythromycin resistance, the frequencies of erm(B), erm(A) and mef(A) genes, and by emm genotyping or M typing. The data were compared with those from 85 GAS str...

PURPOSE In Part 1 of this two-part work, predictions for light transport in powdered-phosphor screens are made, based on three distinct approaches. Predictions of geometrical optics-based ray tracing through an explicit microscopic model (EMM) for screen structure are compared to a Monte Carlo program based on the Boltzmann transport equation (BTE) and Swank's diffusion equation solution. The p...

Geospatial software tools (GIS) are used for creating, viewing, managing, analyzing, and utilizing geospatial data. Geospatial data can include socio-economic, environmental, geophysical, and technical data about the Earth and societal infrastructure and it is pivotal in environmental modeling and management (EMM). Desktop, web-based, and embedded geospatial tools and systems have become an ess...

Antrochoanal polyp (ACP) are benign lesions that originate from the mucosa of maxillary sinus, and extend into nasal cavity to reach choana nasopharynx. The treatment ACP is surgical, endoscopic medial maxillectomy (EMM) one options for surgical therapy. generally affects adolescents but in this case by adults. To report analyze adult patient with EMM technique. A 45-year-old man an completely ...

Abstract. The principles and major steps of Enterprise Meta-Model (EMM) based development of Use Case model (UCM) in CASE system environment are presented in this paper. The Enterprise Meta-Model represents the key concepts of domain knowledge. The enterprise processes, management functions, and their interactions are considered as the critical components of the domain knowledge accumulated as ...

Epidemiologic typing of Streptococcus pyogenes (GAS) is frequently based on the genotype of the emm gene, which encodes M/Emm protein. In this study, the complete genome sequence of GAS emm3 strain M3-b, isolated from a patient with streptococcal toxic shock syndrome (STSS), was determined. This strain exhibited 99% identity with other complete genome sequences of emm3 strains MGAS315, SSI-1, a...

Clustering streams of continuously arriving data has become an important application of data mining in recent years and efficient algorithms have been proposed by several researchers. However, clustering alone neglects the fact that data in a data stream is not only characterized by the proximity of data points which is used by clustering, but also by a temporal component. The extensible Markov...

In this article, we propose a technique called Energy Mixture Model (emm) for classification. emm is a type of feed-forward neural network that can be used to decide the number of nodes for constructing the hidden layer of neural networks based on the variable clustering method. Additionally, energy combination method is used to generate the recognition pattern as the basis for classification. ...

Erythema Multiforme (EM) is an acute, immune–mediated condition characterized by the appearance of distinctive target like lesions on the skin. It is characterized by acrally distributed, distinct target like lesions with concentric color variation, sometimes accompanied by oral, genital, or ocular mucosal erosions or a combination of these [1]. Although EM is usually self-limiting, frequent ep...

Inverted papilloma (IP) is a benign tumor of the nasal cavity and paranasal sinuses that is unilateral in most cases. Bilateral IP, involving both sides of the nasal cavity and sinuses, is extremely rare. This paper describes a large IP that filled in both sides of the nasal cavity and sinuses, mimicking association with malignancy. The tumor was successfully treated by bilateral endoscopic med...