1 Mectizan Donation Program, Decatur, Georgia, United States of America, 2 Ministère de la Sante, Lomé, Togo, 3 Faculté Mixte de Médecine et de Pharmacie, Université de Lomé, Lomé, Togo, 4 Department of Global Health, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America, 5 HDI (Health & Development International), Fjellstrand, Norway, 6 Division of Paras...

685. Factors Associated With Inter-Hospital Variability of Inpatient Antibiotic Use in a Cohort of US Hospitals James Baggs, PhD; Scott Fridkin, MD, FIDSA; Lori Pollack, MD, MPH; Arjun Srinivasan, MD, FSHEA; John Jernigan, MD, MS; Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia; Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion (DHQP), Centers for D...

Brain Abscess Caused by Streptomyces Infection following Penetration Trauma: Case Report and Results of Susceptibility Analysis of 92 Isolates of Streptomyces Species Submitted to the CDC from 2000 to 2004 Charles E. Rose III,* June M. Brown, and John F. Fisher Department of Medicine, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, Georgia, and Bacterial Zoonoses Branch, Division of Foodborne, Bacterial a...

The University of Georgia and Ft. Valley State College, the U.S. Department of Agriculture and counties of the state cooperating. The Cooperative Extension service officers educational programs, assistance and materials to all people without regard to race, color, national origin, age, sex or disability An equal opportunity/affirmative action organization committed to a diverse work force.. The...

H. Yang and P. Ozias-Akins, Department of Horticulture, The University of Georgia Tifton Campus, Tifton, GA 31793-0748; A. K. Culbreath, Department of Plant Pathology, The University of Georgia Tifton Campus, Tifton, GA 31793-0748; D. W. Gorbet, North Florida Research and Education Center, 3925 Highway 71, Marianna, FL 32446; J. R. Weeks, Wiregrass Experiment Station, Auburn University, Headlan...

Dardo E. Ferrara, Daiana Weiss, Peter H. Carnell, Ray P. Vito, David Vega, Xiaohu Gao, Shuming Nie, and W. Robert Taylor Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Emory University, School of Medicine; Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology; Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery. Department of Surgery, Emory University School of Medicine; Departments of Bio...

The University of Georgia and Ft. Valley State College, the U.S. Department of Agriculture and counties of the state cooperating. The Cooperative Extension service officers educational programs, assistance and materials to all people without regard to race, color, national origin, age, sex or disability An equal opportunity/affirmative action organization committed to a diverse work force.. The...

Takao Yasuhara,1 Noriyuki Matsukawa,1 Koichi Hara,1 Guolong Yu,1 Lin Xu,1 Mina Maki,1 Seung U. Kim,2,3 and Cesario V. Borlongan1,4 1Department of Neurology, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, Georgia 30912, 2Disease Research Center, Ajou University School of Medicine, Suwon 443721, Korea, 3Division of Neurology, University of British Columbia Hospital, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada V5Z ...

Introduction On January 16, 2007, the Health and Human Services Committees and the Appropriations Health Subcommittees of both the Georgia House and Senate, with support from the Georgia Health Policy Center, sponsored a session to help legislators understand Certifi cate of Need (CON) within a range of health care system issues. The session, attended by more than 91 Georgia legislators, provid...

Gaze and face tracking algorithms have traditionally battled a compromise between computational complexity and accuracy; the most accurate neural net algorithms cannot be implemented in real time, but less complex realtime algorithms suffer from higher error. This project seeks to better bridge that gap by improving on real-time eye and facial recognition algorithms in order to develop accurate...