Thirty-one strains of Acinetobacter species, including type strains of the 18 genomic species and 13 clinical isolates, were compared by amplified ribosomal DNA restriction analysis (ARDRA), random amplified polymorphic DNA analysis (RAPD), and amplified fragment length polymorphism (AFLP) fingerprinting. ARDRA, performed with five different enzymes, showed low discriminatory power for differen...

The randomly amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) technique was used in the development of a fingerprinting (typing) and identification protocol for Legionella strains. Twenty decamer random oligonucleotide primers were screened for their discriminatory abilities. Two candidate primers were selected. By using a combination of these primers, RAPD analysis allowed for the differentiation between all ...

BACKGROUND There is mounting evidence that discriminatory experiences can harm health. However, previous research has mainly focused on the health effects of racial discrimination in U.S. or European countries although there is pervasive discrimination by gender, age, education and other factors in Asian countries. METHODS We analyzed the data from the 7th wave of Korean Labor and Income Pane...

Thursday, March 29th 4:30 PM 1:30 PM DH A302 B23 109/110 Abstract: As algorithms increasingly inform and influence decisions made about individuals, it becomes increasingly important to address concerns that these algorithms might be discriminatory. The output of an algorithm can be discriminatory for many reasons, most notably: (1) the data used to train the algorithm might be biased (in vario...

one of the major opportunistic pathogens in patients with burn injuries is pseudomonas aeruginosa , which causes severe infections in burned patients. the objective of the study was to examine the molecular epidemiology of p. aeruginosa colonization in the burn unit of shahid motahari hospital in tehran, iran. restriction fragment length polymorphism (rflp) and random amplified polymorphic dna ...

The aim of this study was to identify the strengths and weaknesses of five DNA fingerprint methods for epidemiological typing of Streptococcus pneumoniae. We investigated the usefulness of (i) ribotyping, (ii) BOX fingerprinting with the BOX repetitive sequence of S. pneumoniae as a DNA probe, (iii) PCR fingerprinting with a primer homologous to the enterobacterial repetitive intergenic consens...

Regularized linear classifiers have been successfully applied in undersampled, i.e. small sample size/high dimensionality biomedical classification problems. Additionally, a design of data complexity measures was proposed in order to assess the competence of a classifier in a particular context. Our work was motivated by the analysis of ill-posed regression problems by Elden and the interpretat...