PURPOSE A nationwide outbreak of Mycoplasma pneumoniae pneumonia (MP) refractory to macrolide antibiotics occurred in Korea during 2011. Steroid therapy has been reported to be both efficacious and well tolerated in pediatric patients with refractory MP. We compared clinical features and laboratory characteristics between children with refractory MP requiring steroid treatment and those with ma...

Spinal cord injury during high-risk spinal deformity correction surgery occurs rarely despite best efforts to avoid it. Current neurophysiological monitoring strategies can only report an injury after it happens and some injuries fail to be captured intraoperatively. This catastrophic complication is usually irreversible. Using adult rats and an established spinal cord injury model, the objecti...

Given the harmonic mean μ of the numbers xi (i = 1, 2, 3) and a t ∈ (0,min{x1, x2, x3}/μ}), we determine the best power mean exponents p and q such that Mp(xi − tμ) ≤ (1 − t)μ ≤ Mq(xi − tμ), where p and q only depend on t. Also, for t > 0 we similarly handle the estimates Mp(xi + tμ) ≤ (1 + t)μ ≤Mq(xi + tμ).

We investigated the feasibility of a novel method for hyperspectral mapping of macular pigment (MP) in vivo. Six healthy subjects were recruited for noninvasive imaging using a snapshot hyperspectral system. The three-dimensional full spatial-spectral data cube was analyzed using non-negative matrix factorization (NMF), wherein the data was decomposed to give spectral signatures and spatial dis...

The results of a field experiment to study the effect grassing in orchard and microbial preparations (MP) have been presented article. was carried out Crimea on meadow alluvial calcareous soil. Mixtures herbs (MH) were investigated: MH2 - multiflorous ryegrass + blue alfalfa; MH3 fescue clover; MH4 alfalfa clover awnless rump. Control is natural (NG). MP used: Azotobacterin (AB) Complex (CMP). ...

We examined age effects on Movement related potentials (MRPs) in 13 young (mean age = 29.3 years) and 13 old (mean age = 67.2 years) normal adults in right, left and bimanual self-paced button press conditions. Both the groups generated a slowly rising readiness potential (RP) at about 1000 ms, a negative shift (NS') at about 450 ms and a motor potential (MP) at about 100 ms prior to movement. ...

PURPOSE To investigate the clinical effects and outcomes of intravitreal injection of 4 mg of triamcinolone acetonide (IVTA) after or concomitant with macular laser photocoagulation (MP) for clinically significant macular edema (CSME). METHODS Forty-nine eyes of 49 patients with nonproliferative diabetic retinopathy and CSME were randomized into three groups. The eyes in the laser group (n=17...

The foveal region of the retina has a yellow pigmentation composed primarily of the carotenoids lutein and zeaxanthin. Past studies have shown that cigarette smoking depresses carotenoid concentrations in the blood. This is the first report on the effects of cigarette smoking on carotenoids in the retina. Macular pigment optical density (MP) was measured psychophysically by comparing foveal and...

With the ever expanding volume of system functions directly implemented in microcode and the growth of microprocessor applications, it has become necessary to design high level language compilers for these machines to achieve high programming productivity. However, because of the very low level architecture of many of these machines, compilers that generate efficient code for these machines hav...