BACKGROUND Our aim was to describe the epidemiology of cutaneous malignant melanomas (CMMs) in males and females in the south east of England from 1960 to 1998. Birth cohort effects are important when describing the incidence of CMMs because fashions of dress affect whether different body sites are exposed to sunlight. METHODS We calculated the age-standardized incidence of all CMMs for 5 yea...

Computerized maintenance management systems (CMMS) are common in today’s industries. CMMS can bring a large number of benefits, which include increased productivity, reduced costs, and effective utilization of the assets in any manufacturing and service producer. The list of CMMS that are available in the market has grown very rapidly during the last years. When purchasing a system, one that su...

The strategy of combined site directed mutagenesis and chemical modification creates chemically modified mutants (CMMs) with greatly broadened substrate specificities. We have previously reported that the CMMs of subtilisin Bacillus lentus (SBL) are efficient catalysts for the coupling of both Land D-amino acids. We now report that these powerful catalysts also allow amide bond formation betwee...

− Today the scanning-technology on coordinate measuring machines (CMMs) is used for tactile detection of form deviations. Many companies apply CMMs instead of form measuring devices because of their high flexibility and the possibility of fast workpiece inspection. However, the kinematic of CMMs is more complex than the one of specialized form measurement devices. Dynamic effects, like centrifu...

Congenital mirror movements (CMMs) are involuntary, symmetric movements of one hand during the production of voluntary movements with the other. CMMs have been attributed to a range of physiological mechanisms, including excessive ipsilateral projections from each motor cortex to distal extremities. We examined this hypothesis with an individual showing pronounced CMMs. Mirror movements were ch...

Micro-coordinate measuring machines (micro-CMMs) for microcomponents require a probe system with tip diameter of several tens to hundreds micrometers. Scale effects work such small tip, i.e., the tends stick on measurement surface via adhesion forces. These forces significantly deteriorate probing resolution or repeatability. Therefore, realize micro-CMMs, many researchers have proposed micropr...

STUDY DESIGN Case report. INTRODUCTION This case report describes the use of the casting motion to mobilize stiffness (CMMS) technique in the management of a crush and degloving injury of the hand. The patient was unable to attend multiple hand therapy sessions due to geographic constraints. The CMMS technique involved the application of a nonremovable plaster of paris cast that selectively i...

This report describes the implementation of a pilot patient navigation (PN) program created to address cervical cancer disparities in a predominantly Hispanic agricultural community. Since November 2009, a patient navigator has provided services to patients of Catholic Mobile Medical Services (CMMS). The PN program has resulted in the need for additional clinic sessions to accommodate the deman...

The Coordinate Measuring Machines (CMMs) are widely used for the three-dimensional measurements of workpieces. For solving the limits and the drawbacks of the traditional CMMs, we have started developing nano-CMM that measures three dimensional parts in nanometer resolution. In this article, we evaluate the repeatability and the straightness of stages of nano-CMM.