background and aims: staphylococcus aureus is one of the important pathogens around the world. the present investigation was carried out to study the distribution of staphylococcal cassette chromosome mec (sccmec) types and antibiotic resistance properties in methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus isolated from isfahan hospitals. materials and methods: a total of 250 clinical specimens wer...

In the literature, there have been intensive studies on typing (sorting) systems for the polyadic -calculus, originated by Milner's sorting discipline [10] based on name matching. The proposed systems, so far, are categorized into the two groups | systems by name matching and ones by structure matching (possibly with subtyping) | and obtain similar results. A natural question arises \Is there a...

Although many rail travellers use portable computers while travelling, the train environment has not been influenced by the desire to operate computers. Some trains provide power points and tables for portable computers, but an optimal design also requires understanding of how typing is disturbed by train motion. There are numerous studies of typing in static conditions and many studies of the ...

The choice of adequate methods for epidemiological purposes remains a challenging problem in Neisseria gonorrhoeae molecular monitoring. In this study, the collection of geographically unrelated gonococci (n = 103) isolated in Russian clinics was comparably tested by (i) a traditional serotyping scheme, (ii) por typing, (iii) Neisseria gonorrhoeae multiantigen sequence typing (NG-MAST), and (iv...

ST22-methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus type IV (ST22-MRSA-IV) is endemic in Irish hospitals and is designated antibiogram-resistogram type-pulsed-field group (AR-PFG) 06-01. Isolates of this highly clonal strain exhibit limited numbers of pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) patterns and spa types. This study investigated whether combining PFGE and spa typing with DNA sequencing of...

Like a modern horror movie villain who keeps coming back from the dead, a false story can take on a life of its own: Eskimos have hundreds of words for snow, Millard Fillmore ordered the first bathtub for the White House, that sort of thing. Even after they are shown to be false, some stories are repeated, embellished, and occasionally built into entire belief systems. These fictions may ordina...

OBJECTIVE We aim to increase the symbol rate of electroencephalography (EEG) based brain-computer interface (BCI) typing systems by utilizing context information. APPROACH Event related potentials (ERP) corresponding to a stimulus in EEG can be used to detect the intended target of a person for BCI. This paradigm is widely utilized to build letter-by-letter BCI typing systems. Nevertheless cu...

introduction: repetitive strain injuries are one of the most prevalent problems in occupational diseases. repetition, vibration and bad postures of the extremities are physical risk factors related to work that can cause chronic musculoskeletal disorders. repetitive work on a computer with low level contraction requires the posture to be maintained for a long time, which can cause muscle fatigu...