Until the early 1990 s, incidences of Mycoplasma pneumoniae (MP) infection showed three to five year epidemic cycles in multiple countries, however, the mechanism for the MP epidemic cycle has not been understood. Here, we investigate the determinant of periodicity in MP incidence by employing a mathematical model describing MP transmission dynamics. Three candidates for the determinant of peri...

Contingency tables often arise from collecting patient data and from lab experiments. A typical question to be answered based on a contingency table is whether the rows or the columns show a significant difference. Median Polish (MP) is fast becoming a prefered way to analyse contingency tables based on a simple additive model. Often, the data need to be transformed before applying the MP algor...

The Diophantine equation has been studied by many researchers in number theory because it helps solving variety of complicated puzzle problems. From several studies, interesting proofs have found. In this paper, the researcher examined solutions (

A hybrid granularity model is proposed for general concurrent solution. It is applied to the triangular factorization of a dense matrix ranging in size from 4 to 1024. Concurrency is achieved at two levels: (!) with small (micro) task granularity and (2) with large (blocked) task granularity. Rdevano~ to a many-proccssax CRAY X-MP is demonstrated by simulation.

BACKGROUND Myocardial perfusion (MP) imaging with real-time contrast echocardiography (RTCE) improves the sensitivity of dobutamine stress echocardiography for detecting coronary artery disease. Its prognostic value is unknown. We sought to determine the value of MP and wall motion (WM) analysis during dobutamine stress echocardiography in predicting the outcome of patients with known or suspec...

Herpes simplex virus (HSV)-induced ocular disease is occurring in epidemic proportions throughout the world, and is the number one cause of unilateral corneal blindness in all developed countries. We have found, in a mouse model of herpes simplex keratitis (HSK), that products encoded by the Igh-1 locus on chromosome 12 exert a profound influence on the immune/inflammatory response in the corne...

The foot plays an important role in human walking [1]. The foot has many essential functions such as shock absorption, weight bearing stability and push-off. The metatarsophalangeal (MP) joint, positioned between the metatarsal bones of the foot and the proximal phalanges of the toes, provides a broad area of support across the forefoot. The major role of the MP joint is the energy absorption d...