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First Report of Myiasis Caused by Cochliomyia hominivorax (Diptera: Calliphoridae) in a Diabetic Foot Ulcer Patient in Argentina

  • Olea, Maria Sofia;Centeno, Nestor;Aybar, Cecilia Adriana Veggiani;Ortega, Eugenia Silvana;Galante, Guillermina Begona;Olea, Luis;Dantur Juri, Maria Julia
    • Parasites, Hosts and Diseases
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    • v.52 no.1
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    • pp.89-92
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    • 2014
  • Myiasis is usually caused by flies of the Calliphoridae family, and Cochliomyia hominivorax is the etiological agent most frequently found in myiasis. The first case of myiasis in a diabetic foot of a 54-year-old male patient in Argentina is reported. The patient attended the hospital of the capital city of Tucum$\acute{a} $n Province for a consultation concerning an ulcer in his right foot, where the larval specimens were found. The identification of the immature larvae was based on their morphological characters, such as the cylindrical, segmented, white yellow-coloured body and tracheas with strong pigmentation. The larvae were removed, and the patient was treated with antibiotics. The larvae were reared until the adults were obtained. The adults were identified by the setose basal vein in the upper surface of the wing, denuded lower surface of the wing, short and reduced palps, and parafrontalia with black hairs outside the front row of setae. The main factor that favoured the development of myiasis is due to diabetes, which caused a loss of sensibility in the limb that resulted in late consultation. Moreover, the poor personal hygiene attracted the flies, and the foul-smelling discharge from the wound favoured the female's oviposition. There is a need to implement a program for prevention of myiasis, in which the population is made aware not only of the importance of good personal hygiene and home sanitation but also of the degree of implication of flies in the occurrence and development of this disease.

Evaluating Applicability of Sediment Transport Capacity Equations through Sensitivity Analysis (민감도 분석을 통한 유사이송용량 산정식의 적용성 평가)

  • Her, Younggu;Hwang, Syewoon
    • Journal of The Korean Society of Agricultural Engineers
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    • v.57 no.6
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    • pp.79-90
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    • 2015
  • 유사는 오염물질을 저장 또는 운반하는 매개체로 하류 수체의 물리적, 화학적, 생물학적 과정에 큰 영향을 미친다. 따라서 유사 발생 및 운송 양의 추정은 수질개선을 위한 유역관리계획을 수립하는데 중요한 자료가 된다. 이러한 유사량 및 운송과정은 주로 모형에 의해 계산되고 모의되는데, 많은 유사운송모형들이 유사이송용량 (sediment transport capacity)식을 이용하여 유사 발생량, 이송량 및 퇴적량을 산정한다. 유출에 의한 유사이송용량을 산정하기 위한 기존의 식들은 각기 다른 목적과 환경에서 개발되어 보편적으로 적용할 수 있는 식은 전무한 실정이다. 이에 본 연구는 유사이송용량을 계산하기 위해 사용되는 식들의 개발 목적과 환경을 검토하고, 경사, 유량, 유사입경 및 토성에 따른 민감도를 조사하여 각 식의 적용성을 평가하였다. 본 연구에서 적용한 8개의 유사이송용량 산정식은 모두 경사도에 가장 민감하게 변화하는 것으로 나타났다. Abraham과 Yalin식 이외의 산정식을 이용하여 계산된 유사이송용량은 경사도가 0.1 % 보다 작을 때는 0 mg/l, 경사도가 100 % 보다 클 때는 이론최대치인 2,650 mg/l 을 넘는 것으로 나타나, 이들 산정식의 적용 가능한 경사도 범위를 0.1 %-100 %로 추정할 수 있었다. Abrahams식은 유량에, Bagnold식은 유사입경 및 토성에 민감한 것으로 나타났다. Low, Rickenmann, 및 Schoklitsch식은 유량에 민감하게 반응하지 않았고, Low와 Schoklitsch식은 토성에도 민감하지 않은 것으로 나타나, 이들 식의 제한된 적용성을 확인하였다. 한편, Yang식은 계산식에 포함된 로그항으로 인해 그 적용범위가 제한되는 경우가 있었다. Abrahams과 Yalin식을 이용하여 산정된 유사운송용량은 모든 인자들에 민감하게 반응하는 것으로 나타났으며, Yalin과 Low식의 경우, silt와 clay에 적용되었을 때 유량이 클수록 유사운송용량이 다소 작아지는 경향을 보임에 따라, 전체적으로 Abraham식의 적용성이 가장 높은 것으로 평가되었다. 본 연구결과는 향후 모형을 이용한 유사량 모의 시 적용대상 지역의 특성에 가장 적합한 유사운송용량 산정식을 선정하는데 유용한 정보를 제공할 것으로 기대된다.

THE ORDER OF CYCLICITY OF BIPARTITE TOURNAMENTS AND (0, 1) MATRICES

  • Berman, Abraham;Kotzig, Anton
    • Kyungpook Mathematical Journal
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    • v.19 no.1
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    • pp.127-134
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    • 1979
  • A (0,1) matrix is acyclic if it does not have a permutation matrix of order 2 as a submatrix. A bipartite tournament is acyclic if and only if its adjacency matrix is acyclic. The concepts of (maximal) order of cyclicity of a matrix and a bipartite tournament are introduced and studied.

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Wage and Performance Rating : New Evidence from Personnel Data of a Korean Large Firm (임금과 인사고과 : 대기업 인사데이터를 활용한 실증분석)

  • Eom, Dong-Wook
    • Journal of Labour Economics
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    • v.31 no.3
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    • pp.47-74
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    • 2008
  • Following two pioneering works, Medoff and Abraham(QJE 1980; JHR 1981) and Flabbi and Ichino(LE 2001) which use performance rating of personnel data as individual worker's productivity, this study replicates their analysis using a Korean large firm's personnel data(2000, male white collar workers). According to their methods through Mincerian earnings function, and multinomial logit model that links the distribution of wages and performance ratings, we find that seniority wages appeare continuously even if individual worker's productivity is controlled. Therefore we conclude that incentive or deferred compensation theory is more suitable than human capital theory.

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$\frac{1}{4}$ß$\frac{1}{2}$ (주요 식량작물에 대한 시비적량 추정에 관한 연구)

  • 장석환;최재성
    • The Korean Journal of Applied Statistics
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    • v.1 no.2
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    • pp.34-44
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    • 1987
  • In order to estimate the optimum fertilizer level for rice, a major food crop, the experimental results obtained from the fertilizer trials conducted at 642 experimental sites(farmers' fields) throughout the country for the period from 1976 to 1979 were examined. Since non-significant interactions among fertilizers have been ovserved from the past experiences, only thirteen treatments(combinations of fertilizer levels) for the experiments as given in the Table 1 were chosen such that simple response curves can be fitted with independent variables being N, $P_2O_5, and K_2O$. Weighted combining analysis of variance was also carried out for each type of paddy fields to test the significance of Treatments $\times$ Experimental sites interaction, and highly significant variability in response to treatments among experimental sites in the same type of paddy fields was observed in most types of fields. For the types of paddy fields where the treatments $\times$ experimental sites interaction was not significant, separate response curves for N, $P_2O_5, and K_2O$ were estimated on the basis of the mean yields of rice, and common values of the optimum levels of fertilizers were extimated thereform. When the interaction is significant, response curves were fitted for each experimental sites. The average fertilizer doses estimated for the types of paddy fields based on the individual sites are given in Tables 7-1 and 7-2.

An Algorithm for Joint Reliability Importance in Networks

  • Jang, Gyu-Beom;Park, Dong-Ho;Lee, Seung-Min
    • Proceedings of the Korean Statistical Society Conference
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    • 2002.11a
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    • pp.129-132
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    • 2002
  • 네트워크를 설계하거나 평가하는데 있어 중요한 문제 중 하나는 그 네트워크를 구성하는 요소들간의 상대적 중요도(importance)에 관한 문제이다. 이런 중요도를 나타내는 여러 가지 측도들 중 하나인 Joint Reliability Importance(JRI)는 Hong & Lie(1993)에 의해 소개되었으며, 네 가지 파생된 서브그래프의 신뢰성을 구하여 JRI를 계산하는 방법이 제시되었다. 본 연구에서는 minimal path set을 이용하여 파생되는 서브 그래프 신뢰성 계산에서의 중복되는 계산과정을 줄임으로써 JRI를 보다 효율적으로 구하는 방법을 제시하고자 한다.

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CHARACTERIZATION OF SOME CONTINUOUS DISTRIBUTIONS BY PROPERTIES OF PARTIAL MOMENTS

  • Abraham, B.;Nair, N. Unnikrishnan;Sankaran, P.G.
    • Journal of the Korean Statistical Society
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    • v.36 no.3
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    • pp.357-365
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    • 2007
  • In this paper we present characterizations of the Pareto, Lomax, exponential and beta models by some properties of their $r^{th}$ partial moment defined as ${\alpha}_r(t)=E[(X-t)^+]^r$, where $(X-t)^+ = max(X-t,0)$. Given the partial moments at a few truncation points, these results enable us to calculate the moments at many other points.