BACKGROUND/PURPOSE Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) typing is an important epidemiologic tool for monitoring trends and preventing outbreaks. However, the efficiency of various MRSA typing methods for each SCCmec MRSA isolate is rarely evaluated. MATERIALS AND METHODS A total of 157 MRSA isolates from four different regions in Taiwan were typed with five different molecular ...

In keyboard writing, typing skills are considered an important prerequisite of proficient text production. We describe the design, implementation, and application a standardized copy-typing task in order to measure assess individual fluency. A test-retest analysis indicates instrument’s reliability. While has been developed across eleven different languages related layouts, we here refer corpus...

Background Methods for haplotyping and DNA copynumber typing of single cells are paramount for studying genomic heterogeneity and enabling genetic diagnosis. Before analyzing the DNA of a single cell by microarray or next-generation sequencing, a whole-genome amplification (WGA) process is required, but it substantially distorts the frequency and composition of the cell’s alleles. As a conseque...

transgene integration and expression in host plant is quite unpredictable and is considered as the major problem in plant transformation. the variation in transgene copy number in transgenic plants influences the expression level and is one of such complication. in many plant species, the analysis of transgenic plants has shown that independent transgenic plants have one to many copies of trans...

Background Methods for haplotyping and DNA copynumber typing of single cells are paramount for studying genomic heterogeneity and enabling genetic diagnosis. Before analyzing the DNA of a single cell by microarray or next-generation sequencing, a whole-genome amplification (WGA) process is required, but it substantially distorts the frequency and composition of the cell’s alleles. As a conseque...

Recent work has demonstrated an unexpected prevalence of copy number variation in the human genome, and has highlighted the part this variation may play in predisposition to common phenotypes. Some important genes vary in number over a high range (e.g. DEFB4 , which commonly varies between two and seven copies), and have posed formidable technical challenges for accurate copy number typing, so ...

We investigated to what extent different sources of information are used in typing on a computer keyboard. Using self-reports 10 finger typists and idiosyncratic typists estimated how much attention they pay to different sources of information during copy typing and free typing and how much they use them for error detection. 10 finger typists reported less attention to the keyboard and the fing...