It has been recognized that American Indian populations don’t take full advantage of federal programs aimed at enhancing agriculture and natural resource management practices. Emm and Singletary (2009) claim that some of the problem stems from these programs not being designed with the American Indian in mind. They coined the term “Indian situation,” referring to the lack of understanding agric...

changes in the consumption of macrolide antibiotics on erythromycin resistance in group A streptococci in Finland. N Engl J Med 1997; 337: 441–6. 4. Albertı́ S, Garcı́a-Rey C, Domı́nguez MA et al. Survey of emm gene sequences from pharyngeal Streptococcus pyogenes isolates collected in Spain and their relationship with erythromycin susceptibility. J Clin Microbiol 2003; 41: 2385–90. 5. Tamayo J, P...

By use of molecular techniques, the genetic heterogeneity of 63 community pediatric pharyngeal group A streptococcal (GAS) isolates circulating within a 3-week period were compared with 17 contemporaneous invasive pediatric isolates. Pharyngitis isolates represented 16 pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) patterns with 12 emm serotypes, and invasive isolates represented 10 PFGE patterns with...

Automatic image annotation (AIA) raises tremendous challenges to machine learning as it requires modeling of data that are both ambiguous in input and output, e.g., images containing multiple objects and labeled with multiple semantic tags. Even more challenging is that the number of candidate tags is usually huge (as large as the vocabulary size) yet each image is only related to a few of them...

We undertook a prospective active surveillance study of invasive group A streptococcal (GAS) disease in Fiji over a 23-month period, 2005-2007. We identified 64 cases of invasive GAS disease, which represents an average annualized all-ages incidence of 9.9 cases/100,000 population per year (95% confidence interval [CI] 7.6-12.6). Rates were highest in those >65 years of age and in those <5 year...

We have seen, with some paternal pride, the first issue of EMBO Molecular Medicine (EMM). I am pleased to see the quality of the articles and the many lively sections of the journal; even more so because despite the excitement for this new initiative, I was slightly apprehensive about what seems to be a neverending proliferation of scientific journals. In the case of EMM, however, I feel that t...

This paper introduces the four timing constraints of setup time, hold time, minimum delay, and maximum delay in the Efficient Memory Model (EMM). The EMM is a behavioral model, where the number of symbolic variables used to characterize the initial state of the memory is proportional to the number of distinct symbolic memory locations accessed. The behavioral model provides a conservative appro...

Each organization should make progress to remain competent in its business. Enterprise Modeling (EM) helps in understanding the current and planning the future states, followed by proposing improvement actions in an enterprise. To receive support from EM, we should start a process of using an Enterprise Modeling Method (EMM), that likewise any other process needs using resources. As resources a...

We have seen, with some paternal pride, the first issue of EMBO Molecular Medicine (EMM). I am pleased to see the quality of the articles and the many lively sections of the journal; even more so because despite the excitement for this new initiative, I was slightly apprehensive about what seems to be a neverending proliferation of scientific journals. In the case of EMM, however, I feel that t...

Micro hole is the fundamental feature found in any device and its components. Hence this paper aims to produce micro holes using electrochemical micromachining (EMM). The existing machining techniques EMM for creating are associated with more overcut (OC). Hence, reducing OC enhancing rate (MR) essential. This aspires investigate effect of graphite electrode magnetic force on copper plate. Four...