Overhand throwing motion is often regarded as one of the basic motions along with walking, running, and jumping. Three-dimensional (3-D) image analysis of the kinematics and kinetics using of rigid body segment model of overhand throwing motion has been studied widely in recent years. In this paper biomechanical research on throwing is reviewed with a special focus of studies from Japan. Consid...

introduction: acinetobacter baumannii is associated with hospital-acquired infections. outer membrane protein a of a.baumannii (abompa) is a well-characterized virulence factor which has important roles in pathogenesis of this bacterium. methods: based on our pcr-sequencing of ompa gene in the clinical isolates, abompa protein can be categorized into two types, named here type-1 and type-2. we ...

Detection of tandem repeats can be used for phylogenic studies and disease diagnosis. The numerical representation of genomic signals is very important, as many of the methods for detecting repeated sequences are part of the DSP field. These methods involve the application of a kind of transformation. Applying a transform technique requires mapping the symbolic domain into the numeric domain in...

background and objectives: the escherichia coli strains are greatly important in nosocomial and community acquired infections. the aim of this study was to determine the transmission of bacterial infections using genetic analysis. materials and methods: two hundred and thirty escherichia coli strains, isolated from different clinical samples, were characterized by enterobacterial repetitive int...

We present a new probabilistic model of evolution of RNA-, DNA-, or protein-like sequences and a tool rose that implements this model. By insertion, deletion and substitution of characters, a family of sequences is created from a common ancestor. During this artificial evolutionary process, the ’~true" history is logged and the "correct" multiple sequence alignment is ereated simultaneously. We...

The phylogenic and ontogenic expression of mRNA for the Na+/bile acid cotransporter was determined by Northern analysis utilizing a full-length cDNA probe recently cloned from rat liver. mRNA was detected in several mammalian species, including rat, mouse, and man, but could not be found in livers from nonmammalian species, including chicken, turtle, frog, and small skate. When expression of th...

Coxiella burnetii is a strict intracellular bacterium with potential as a bioterrorism agent. To characterize different isolates of C. burnetii at the molecular level, we performed multispacer sequence typing (MST). MST is based on intergenic region sequencing. These regions are potentially variable since they are subject to lower selection pressure than the adjacent genes. We screened 68 space...