To the Editor: In Greece, 6 spotted fever group (SFG) Rickettsia species have been detected in ticks: Rickettsia conorii, R. massiliae, R. aeschlimannii, R. sibirica mongolitimonae, R. slovaca, and R. rhipicephali (1). SFG species present characteristic clinical signs, including high fever, headache, and maculopapular rash; an inoculation es-char at the tick bite site is characteristic of some,...

Prediction of diseases would help physicians to make informal decision regarding the type of treatment. Jaundice is the most common condition that requires medical attention in newborn babies. Although most newborns develop some degree of jaundice, a high level bilirubin puts a newborn at risk of bilirubin encephalopathy and kernicterus, which are rare but still occur in Egypt. This paper prese...

T rue to the diverse issues that comprise and challenge the field of allergy and immunology, this issue of the Proceedings features a spectrum of articles that, although seemingly disparate and unrelated, fo-cuses on seven major areas of research that coalesce into a cohesive framework that we hope will be of clinical utility for the readership. These are summarized below in the following order...

d ( t s f t c s n d i a s a This is one of a series of position statements discussing the use of GI endoscopy in common clinical situations. The Standards of Practice Committee of the American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy prepared this text. This document is an update of a previous ASGE publication.1 In preparing this document, a search of the medical iterature was performed using Pub...

erative robotic systems, as the first fully-integrated autonomous multi-robot system operated in natural terrain. The mission grammar supports a wide variety of missions, providing optimal execution of those missions by teams of robots, with graceful degradation of optimality for compu-tationally intractable missions. Furthermore, GRAMMPS supports heterogeneous robots as specified via the missi...

brain has a characteristic architecture of packed layers of cells with specific functional identities. In VLDLR Ϫ apoER2 Ϫ , reln Ϫ , and dab1 Ϫ brains, these layers are disorganized. For example, the Purkinje cells of the cerebellum normally migrate outward from an origin near the fourth While some nutrients enter cells through transporters, ventricle, to form a thin layer beneath cerebellar g...

An annual competition among computational biochemists is held by an organization called Critical Assessment of Protein Structure Prediction (CASP). The winning 2020 entrant was from DeepMind, a British machine learning-based company. This team tweaked their earlier work into refinement that outpaced not only the competing platforms but also previous efforts in this mode protein folding field. n...

This study analyzed sixteen cases which appeared to meet Dr. Richard Gardner 's criteria for parental alienation syndrome as set forth in his 1987 book. Thesecases showed a wide diversity of characteristics but Gardner's criteria were useful in differentiating these cases from other postdivorce difficulties. Traditional interventions were ineffective in altering Ule alienation. Gardner (1985) h...

Using field measurements and quantitative modeling, we demonstrate that red coloration of the sea surface is not associated with any particular group of phytoplankton and is strongly dependent on the physiology of the human visual system. Red or brown surface waters can be produced by high concentrations of most types of algae, colored dissolved organic matter, or suspended sediment. Even thoug...

We present a method for detecting annotation errors in treebanks. It assumes that errors are unexpected small tree fragments. We generate statistics over configurations of these fragments using a standard statistical test. We use the test result and the characteristics of their distributions as features to classify unseen configurations as likely errors via machine learning. Evaluation shows th...