Bacteria were cultivated on Trypto-Casein-Soy (TCS) agar for 24 h at 35–37 °C. Bacterial identification was performed at the NRC-CCD as described previously [42] by multiplex polymerase chain reaction (PCR) combining a dtxR gene fragment specific for C. diphtheriae and a multiplex PC...
We've just completed our national mid-term elections and regardless of your political leanings, we all know that change will occur in the not-too-distant future. How the upcoming changes will impact us and our businesses is the biggest question on my mind. One of the main reasons for the...
Hydroxycinnamoyl CoA: shikimate hydroxycinnamoyl transferase (HCT) is a central enzyme of the so-called “esters” pathway to monolignols. As originally envisioned, HCT functions twice in this pathway, to form coumaroyl shikimate and then, in the “reverse” direction, to convert caffeoyl shikimate...
Taking into account efficiency gains from balance billing, this raises the question on how these gains are shared between patients and physicians. In this paper, we take the analysis of Glazer and McGuire further and focus on the welfare of patients. We analyze the optimal Medicare fee both ...
We pre-treated protein A/G magnetic beads (MCE, NJ) with apoptosis-associated speck-like protein containing a caspase recruitment domain (ASC) antibody (Santa Cruz Biotechnology, Dallas, TX) or mouse IgG (CST, Danvers, MA) to form bead–antibody complexes. The vulvar tissues were homogenized ...
Scrub typhus, caused by Orientia tsutsugamushi, is an important and neglected vector-borne zoonotic disease with an expanding known distribution. The ecology of the disease is complex and poorly understood, impairing discussion of public health intervent
placing it thereafter on the child’s genital [137]. Dried specimens, pulverized and used as a medicinal powder in the form of a tea or a paste are the most common methods of application, but external uses of lard made by frying large centipedes in vegetable oil, are also known [70]....
Evolution has equipped cells with exquisite signaling systems which allow them to sense their environment, receive and process signals in a hierarchically organized manner and to react accordingly [1]. The complexity of the corresponding molecular machineries, in accordance with the complicated tasks they...
Such a reduced network is minimal for the cumomer node in question, since it contains only cumomer nodes that are essential for the computation of the selected cumomer's labeling state. In essence, this dimension reduction results in a more efficient solution of LBEs, since only a minimal ...
The fuzzy comprehensive evaluation results for a full-time water conservancy emergency rescue team are presented in Section 3. 2.1. Delphi Method The Delphi method is a collective, anonymous exchange of ideas in the form of a correspondence consultation [39]. Based on the life-cycle approach and...