in this study, the vertical, transverse and oblique diameters of the spinal cord segments (c1, c6, c12, c18, t1, t4, l1, l4, l6 and l8) and the ratio of gray matter to white matter in chick (l month) and adult (18 months) male ostriches, each group consisted of 3 animals, were measured with standard micrometric method using 6 μm thick sections by light microscope. with advancement of age, the r...

This paper describes a comparison of the well known Active Shape Model (ASM) and the new More Active Shape Model (MASM). It is the first time MASM has been implemented and thus also the first time it has been compared to ASM. Both implementations were done in Matlab and the comparison were done on a real case of finding the metacarpals in x-ray images of the left hand. The paper also introduces...

Eukaryotic genomic DNA is highly packaged into chromatin by histones to fit inside the nucleus. Other than the bulk packaging role of canonical histones with an expression peak at S phase and replication-coupled deposition, different histone variants have evolved distinct regulatory mechanisms for their expression, deposition and functional implications. The diversity of histone variants result...

BACKGROUND Determination of vancomycin minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) can influence the agent used to treat methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infection. We studied diagnostic accuracy using E-test and VITEK(®) 2 against a gold standard broth microdilution (BMD) methodology, the correlation between methods, and associations between vancomycin MIC and MRSA phenotype from ...

We examined the reliability and accuracy of a colorimetric assay using Alamar Blue reagent in the performance of susceptibility tests for Candida albicans. We compared the broth macrodilution method recommended by the National Committee for Clinical Laboratory Standards (NCCLS) with a macrodilution method modified with the Alamar reagent and a microdilution method modified with the Alamar reage...

Prozessmanagement (GPM) stellt zunehmend in der öffentlichen Verwaltung ein Instrument von wachsender Bedeutung dar, um den aktuellen Herausforderungen gerecht zu werden. Das auf Bundesebene initiierte Projekt „Föderales Informationsmanagement (FIM)“ des IT-Planungsrates schlägt für Verwaltungsverfahren einen Standardisierungsrahmen der Informationsbausteine Leistungen, Formulare und Prozesse v...