Nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) are ubiquitous organisms; their isolation from clinical specimens does not always indicate clinical disease. The incidence of NTM lung diseases has been increasing worldwide. Although the geographic diversity of NTM species is well known, Mycobacterium avium complex (MAC), M. abscessus complex (MABC), and M. kansasii are the most commonly encountered and import...

AIM The aim of the current research was to explore the relationship between motor competence, physical fitness and self-perception, and to study to which extent this relationship may vary by gender. METHODS A sample of 67 children (mean age 11.46 years, SD 0.27) completed Harter's Self-Perception Profile for Children (SPPC), the Movement Assessment Battery for Children (MABC) and the Test of ...

Objective: To investigate both fine and gross motor proficiency in preschool children enrolled in Head Start in comparison to their age-matched typically developing peers. Methods: Thirty-seven children from a local Head Start program and 37 typically developing children participated in this study. Movement Assessment Battery for Children-2 (MABC-2) was used to assess children's fine and gross ...

OBJECTIVE to compare the motor coordination, cognitive, and functional development of preterm and term children at the age of 4 years. METHODS this was a cross-sectional study of 124 four-year-old children, distributed in two different groups, according to gestational age and birth weight, paired by gender, age, and socioeconomic level. All children were evaluated by the Movement Assessment B...

In this study a new modified artificial bee colony algorithm for the optimization of fuzzy control scheme motion tracking mobile robot is developed. The modification based on using some features from particle swarm to improve solution quality. artificialbee (MABC) balance exploration and exploitation original one. This balancing results in going through global search space increases convergence...

The multiple-choice multidimensional knapsack problem (MMKP) is a well-known NP-hard that has many real-time applications. However, owing to its complexity, finding computationally efficient solutions for the MMKP remains challenging task. In this study, we propose Modified Artificial Bee Colony algorithm (MABC) solve MMKP. MABC employs surrogate relaxation, Hamming distance, and tabu list enha...

PURPOSE This study aimed (1) to compare the skeletal maturity and activity participation pattern between children with and without developmental coordination disorder (DCD); and (2) to determine whether activity participation pattern was associated with the skeletal development among children with DCD. MATERIALS AND METHODS Thirty-three children with DCD (mean age: 7.76 years) and 30 typicall...

OBJECTIVE We explored the relationship between accidental injuries, motor impairment, and co-occurring autism spectrum disorder (ASD) symptoms in children with ADHD-combined type (ADHD-CT). METHOD Participants were 32 male children diagnosed with ADHD-CT and 23 typically developing male children (7-12 years, full scale IQ [FSIQ] > 80). Parents completed a customized questionnaire on the occur...