Unilateral fibrous contracture of the sternocleidomastoid (SCM) muscle is the major pathophysiology in infants with congenital muscular torticollis (CMT). Physical examination is not always sufficient to detect minimal muscle fibrosis in involved SCM muscles.A prospective study for SCM muscle fibrosis in CMT infants by quantifying echotexture and muscle thickness during the course of treatment ...

Organizations invest heavily in Supply Chain Management (SCM) systems expecting benefits stated by software vendors and implementation partners. However, both academic and industry reports suggest that there are growing challenges in realizing the benefits of SCM applications, preventing the success of SCM projects. Although there exist well-publicized research on Enterprise Resource Planning s...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the clinical usefulness of sonoelastography in infants with congenital muscular torticollis (CMT). METHODS The medical records of 215 infants clinically diagnosed with CMT were retrospectively reviewed. Fifty-three infants met the inclusion criteria as follows: 1) infants diagnosed as CMT with a palpable neck mass before 3 months of age, 2) infants who were evaluated ini...

The cervical vestibular evoked myogenic potential (cVEMP) is a common and simple test of vestibulospinal reflex patency. In the clinic, cVEMPs are measured in response to loud sounds from the sternocleidomastoid (SCM) on the ventral neck, as subjects maintain an uncomfortable head posture needed to recruit SCM. Here we characterize the cVEMP in a dorsal neck turner (splenius capitis; SPL), and ...

LYMPHOCYTES from patients with malignant diseases can be differentiated from those of healthy donors or donors with non-malignant disorders on the basis of changes in the structuredness of cytoplasmic matrix (SCM) induced by cancer basic protein (CaBP), tumour-tissue associated antigens and phytohaemagglutinin (PHA) (Cercek, Cercek and Garrett, 1 974b; Cercek, Cercek and Franklin, 1974a; Cercek...

Software connguration management (SCM) is the discipline for controlling the evolution of software systems. The central problems of SCM are closely related to central artiicial intelligence (AI) topics, such as knowledge representation (how do we represent the features of versions and components, and how does this knowledge involve in time?), conngu-ration (how do we compose a consistent conngu...

Within the industry there is a need of controlling the whole product development process including both hardware and software components. The integration of development processes meets many problems partially because of the different nature of the processes and partially because of the different approaches. A typical example of overlapping processes is Software Configuration Management (SCM) an...

Organizations invest heavily in Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and Supply Chain Management (SCM) systems, and their related infrastructure, presumably expecting positive benefits to the organization. Assessing the benefits of such systems is an important aspect of managing such systems. Given the substantial differences between CRM and SCM systems with traditional intra-organizational a...

This manuscript assumes that subsurface chlorophyll maxima (SCM) in the Canadian Arctic waters have a large role in new production in the water columns, and reports nutritive and photosynthetic characteristics of the SCM. However, vertical maximum of nitrate uptake rate does not occur at SCM in oligotrophic tropical and subtropical oceans (e.g. Raimbault et al., 1999; Aufdenkampe et al., 2002; ...

The Set Covering Machine (SCM) is a greedy learning algorithm that produces sparse classifiers. We extend the SCM for datasets that contain a huge number of features. The whole genetic material of living organisms is an example of such a case, where the number of feature exceeds 10. Three human pathogens were used to evaluate the performance of the SCM at predicting antimicrobial resistance. Ou...