BACKGROUND/AIMS External anal sphincter (EAS) and puborectalis muscle (PRM) play important role in anal continence function. Based on length-tension measurement, we recently reported that the human EAS muscle operates at short sarcomere length under phys-iological conditions. Goal of our study was to determine if PRM also operates at the short sarcomere length. METHODS Length-tension relation...

generally, the failure rate and the repair time of system components are constant parameters in reliability assessment of electric distribution systems. a failure of component is resulted from failing in the operation or overloading. in addition, there exist cases where, the repair times of components are small and tolerable from customer point of view. thus, tolerable repair times may be overl...

The presentation will concern my current research project aiming at developing a Probabilistic Relational Model (PRM) to support analysis of Information Security Governance (ISG) in an organization. The awareness of the important aspects of information security that ISG covers has increased among companies as it provides a holistic approach to protection of organizational assets. ISG considers ...

Scedosporium apiospermum is part of the Pseudallescheria-Scedosporium complex. Peptidorhamnomannans (PRMs) are cell wall glycopeptides present in some fungi, and their structures have been characterized in S. apiospermum, S. prolificans and Sporothrix schenckii. Prior work shows that PRMs can interact with host cells and that the glycopeptides are antigenic. In the present study, three monoclon...

An actinomycete strain #8 with multiple aminoglycoside (AG) resistance and paromomycin (PRM) sensitivity was examined for its capability of enzymatic modification of AGs. Cell free extracts from the strain converted all of the examined AGs including PRM in the presence of acetyl CoA. PRM was completely modified to at least two products (major and minor spots upon TLC) without significant reduct...

The role of the Japanese encephalitis virus (JEV) premembrane (prM) protein in maturation of the envelope (E) glycoprotein was evaluated by using recombinant vaccinia viruses encoding E in the presence (vP829) or absence (vP658) of prM. Immunofluorescence analyses showed that E appeared to be localized in the endoplasmic reticulum of cells infected with JEV, vP829, or vP658. However, reactivity...

69 Abstract—In this paper two novel Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO)-based algorithms are presented for robot path planning with respect to two objectives, the shortest and smoothest path criteria. The first algorithm is a hybrid of the PSO and the Probabilistic Roadmap (PRM) methods, in which the PSO serves as the global planner whereas the PRM performs the local planning task. The second alg...

Effective leadership in organisations is important to the achievement of organizational objectives. Yet leadership is widely seen as a quality that individuals innately possess, and which cannot be learned. This paper makes two assertions; (a) that leadership is a skill that not only can b e learned, but which can be formalized into a Process Reference Model that is intelligible to practitioner...

Small airways disease (SAD) is one of the leading causes of airflow limitations in patients diagnosed with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Parametric response mapping (PRM) of computed tomography (CT) scans allows for the quantification of this previously invisible COPD component. Although PRM is being investigated as a diagnostic tool for COPD, variability in the longitudinal mea...

Until the recent discovery of pRF in Rickettsia felis, the obligate intracellular bacteria of the genus Rickettsia (Rickettsiales: Rickettsiaceae) were thought not to possess plasmids. We describe pRM, a plasmid from Rickettsia monacensis, which was detected by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis and Southern blot analyses of DNA from two independent R. monacensis populations transformed by transp...