We describe herein a recurrent catheter-related (Port-A-Cath; Smiths Industries Medical Systems [SIMS] Deltec, Inc., St. Paul, Minn.) infection caused by multidrug-resistant Mycobacterium chelonae with two colonial morphotypes in a 53-year-old woman with gastric adenocarcinoma. Four isolates recovered from this patient within a 3-month period were found to belong to a single clone on the basis ...

The study on Balinese lexicons related to Memande (silver and gold smith) at Celuk Village in Gianyar Bali concerned with the types of use in: materials, tools, products, activities silver goldsmiths. is field research which data were gathered by applying in-depth interviews observation smiths. theories eco-linguistics sociolinguistics applied analyse data. findings showed that there 21 5 mater...

Combined heredity of surnames and physique, coupled with past marriage patterns and trade-specific physical aptitude and selection factors, may have led to differential assortment of bodily characteristics among present-day men with specific trade-reflecting surnames (Tailor vs. Smith). Two studies reported here were partially consistent with this genetic-social hypothesis, first proposed by Bä...

State-of-the art x-ray screening systems offer a variety of so-called “image enhancement” functions (IEFs). Examples are color inversion, edge-enhancement, organic only, metal only etc. IEFs are often promoted because they would bring out detail that is obscured or highlight certain features, such as for example organic content. In this study, we investigated the usefulness of IEFs for cabin ba...

In this work we propose three unsupervised measures to automatically identify the number of distinct entities a given ambiguous name refers to in a corpus. We experiment with 22 artificially created name conflations and observe that the measure (PK2) formulated as the ratio of two successive clustering criterion function values outperforms the other two measures. We also describe a method to as...