Outstanding skills, including special isolated skills (SIS) and perceptual peaks (PP) are frequent features of autism. However, their reported prevalence varies between studies and their co-occurrence is unknown. We determined the prevalence of SIS in a large group of 254 autistic individuals and searched for PP in 46 of these autistic individuals and 46 intelligence and age-matched typically d...

Streptomyces species has been commonly reported as a cause of mycetoma. Invasive streptomyces infections are rare. We report a case of late onset neonatal septicemia caused by Streptomyces annulatus in a home delivered baby, which was identified based on morphology and biochemical characteristics. Invasive streptomyces infections may be more common than these isolated case reports.

An increase in geomagnetically induced currents (GICs) is an inevitable result of geomagnetic field disturbances, and harmful to the power grid, particular, at high latitudes. At mid low latitudes, amplitude GICs is, general, small, but large-amplitude are often observed during magnetic storms. It importance understand major characteristics extreme values For geoelectric disturbances ΔE Kakioka...

SIS is a Satellite controller Integrated with Star sensors, which has been developed as a prototype model of a compact, low-cost satellite controller. SIS integrates attitude sensors into a star sensor and integrates several electronics for star identification, attitude determination, attitude control, and data handling into a single processing unit. SIS meets high reliability requirements by a...

The slow intelligence system (SIS) technology is a novel technology for the design of a complex information system that is aware of the environment through multiple sensors and capable of improving its performance over time. In this paper we describe a practical slow intelligence system test bed where super-components can be specified to describe interactions among components. These supercompon...

We describe the properties of guided modes in metallic parallel plate structures with subwavelength corrugation on the surfaces of both conductors, which we refer to as spoof-insulator-spoof (SIS) waveguides, in close analogy to metal-insulator-metal (MIM) waveguides in plasmonics. A dispersion relation for SIS waveguides is derived, and the modes are shown to arise from the coupling of convent...

For the Global Positioning System (GPS), signal-in-space (SIS) performance is key to the positioning accuracy and the integrity. In practice, SIS anomalies occasionally happens and the consequent user range errors of tens of meters or even more have been observed. In this paper, all potential SIS anomalies in the last decade are screened out by comparing the broadcast ephemerides/clocks with th...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to examine proxy-patient agreement on the domains of the Stroke Impact Scale (SIS), as per the proxy-proxy perspective. METHODS Stroke patients were prospectively assessed by means of the NIH Stroke Scale, Barthel index, and modified Rankin scale. Proxies and patients answered the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale and the SIS 3.0. Compa...

Sustainability Indicators (SIs) have been popular among a section of the policy and science community for some years and are often promoted by this group as a potent vehicle to help make sustainable development a reality. One of the claimed strengths of SIs is their ability to present complex data and trends to policy makers. It is assumed that SIs can thereby help to make policy and indeed man...

In Streptomyces lividans, the tight temporal regulation of the transient expression of the sblA gene was shown to involve an operator-like sequence located on the sblA transcript. This operator-like structure constitutes a stem-loop structure containing a Shine/Dalgarno-like sequence. Its destruction, by site directed mutagenesis, led to an enhancement of sblA expression. This structure thus pl...