The objective of the present study was to conduct a comparative genotypic analysis of Candida albicans isolates from the United States, Europe, and Southeast Asia to determine whether differences between isolates might be associated with geographic locations. The genotypes of 86 unrelated isolates of C. albicans (from the United States and Europe) and 26 isolates from Singapore were examined by...

The author examined the records of the seven defendants found not guilty by reason of insanity (NGI) under Utah's mens rea insanity law during the first two years of its operation. In all of the cases the attorneys, judges, and experts seemed unaware of the new law or confused about its meaning. Examination revealed that the findings of insanity were negotiated with either ignorance of or indif...

Database encryption is a well established technology for protecting sensitive data. Unfortunately, the integration of existing encryption techniques with database systems causes undesirable performance degradation. It is a crucial technique in the security mechanisms of database. In this paper we propose a new encryption algorithm, which we call Reverse Encryption Algorithm (REA). Our new encry...

Geerts and McCarthy [5, 6] established the REA business ontology. In its accounting and policy infrastructure the informational and procedural elements which are needed for accounting and management purposes are specified. An investigation of the requirements in the disciplines of accounting, finance and management control shows that the ontology is not complete. By including the concepts of ac...

Catechol-borate complexation and ion-pair formation combined with organic solvent extraction as preliminaries to radioenzymatic assay (REA) with catechol-O-methyltransferase-catalyzed methylation allows the quantification of catecholamines in plasma samples of any volume. We attained improved detection limits for 1-mL samples: 9 ng/L for norepinephrine (NE), 8 ng/L for epinephrine (E), and 11 n...

We report a case of reactive arthritis (ReA) triggered by Yersinia enterocolitica enteritis. A 24-year-old Japanese man developed polyarthritis in the lower limbs. Two weeks prior to these symptoms, he noted diarrhea, right lower abdominal pain and a fever. Y. enterocolitica was not isolated from a stool culture; however, he was diagnosed with ReA based on the colonoscopic findings of a high an...

Spondyloarthropathies are inflammatory diseases closely associated with human leukocyte antigen (HLA)-B27 by unknown mechanisms. One of these diseases is reactive arthritis (ReA), which is typically triggered by Gram-negative bacteria, which have lipopolysaccharide as an integral component of their outer membrane. Several findings in vivo and in vitro obtained from patients with ReA and from di...