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Open AccessDalbavancin reduces biofilms of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus epidermidis (MRSE)
Activity of dalbavancin against methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus epidermidis (MRSE) in biofilm was investigated and the microbicidal biofilm concentratio...
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The RIG-I-like helicase receptor MDA5 (IFIH1) is involved in the host defense against Candida infections
The induction of host defense against Candida species is initiated by recognition of the fungi by pattern recognition receptors and activation of downstream pathways that produce inflammatory mediators essential ...
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Chapter
A Note on Sufficiency in Coherent Models
Partly of an expository nature, this article brings together a number of notions related to sufficiency in an abstract measure theoretic setting. The notion of a coherent statistical model, as introduced by Ha...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Research and Development of Advanced Boiler Steel Tubes and Pipes Used for 600°C USC Power Plants in China
Laboratory research, pilot trials, and industrial implementation of T/P92, S30432 and S31042 boiler steel tubes/pipes used for 600°C steam parameter fossil fuel fired ultra super critical (USC) power plants in...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A Wide Current Range Readout Circuit with Potentiostat for Amperometric Chemical Sensors
This paper presents a novel readout circuit with potentiostat for amperometric chemical sensors that has wide output current range and has low power consumption, with its application towards the implantable gl...
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Factors influencing survival after relapse from acute lymphoblastic leukemia: a Children's Oncology Group study
Despite great progress in curing childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), survival after relapse remains poor. We analyzed survival after relapse among 9585 pediatric patients enrolled on Children's Oncol...
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Comparison of dynamic ultrasound and stress radiology for assessment of inferior glenohumeral laxity in asymptomatic shoulders
To determine the level of agreement between dynamic ultrasound imaging and stress radiography used for the measurement of inferior glenohumeral laxity in asymptomatic shoulders, and to determine the repeatabil...
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Electrochemical studies of gold ore processing wastewater containing cyanide, copper, and sulfur compounds
The electrochemistry of real gold ore processing wastewater solutions from copper sulfide containing gold ore has been investigated. Analysis shows that the wastewater contains a range of sulfur compounds in v...
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Diffraction Contrast Image Analysis on the Facet Defects of the Laser Diodes Caused by ECR Cleaning Process
Cross-sectional and plan-view TEM techniques were used to study the ion beam passivation of 980 nm laser pump diodes. It is found that under certain operation conditions, the ECR cleaning process produces crys...
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The Association of Bone Mineral Density with Vitamin D Receptor Gene Polymorphisms
A recent meta-analysis of 16 publications suggested that bone mineral density (BMD) is not associated with vitamin D receptor (VDR) gene polymorphism (VDRGP) at the 0.05 significance level when a study with g...
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Metal-Organic Chemical Vapor Deposition Routes to Films of Transparent Conducting Oxides
This contribution reports the in situ growth of transparent, conducting GaxIn2−xO3 and ZnkIn2Ok+3 films by MOCVD (metal-organic chemical vapor deposition) techniques using In(dpm)3, Ga(dpm)3, and Zn(dpm)2 (dpm = ...
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Purification and properties of β-amylase from Bacillus circulans S31
A thermotolerant β-amylase was purified from Bacillus circulans S31 isolated from soil in Hong Kong. The purified enzyme has an M r of 64 kDa and was stable at 50°C and pH 7.0 for 30 min. Its K ...
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Evaluation of thermophysical properties of Freon-22
Simple and accurate prediction methods of the thermodynamic and the transport properties of Freon-22 as a function of pressure and temperature are presented in this paper. The code predicts the thermodynamic a...
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Production of thermotolerant β-amylase byBacillus circulans
An isolate from a Hong Kong soil sample which produced β-amylase was identified as a thermotolerant strain ofBacillus circulans with a growth range of 35 to 55δC. The β-amylase was stable at 45°C for 30 min but l...
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Superplastic behavior of two-phase titanium aluminides
A two-phase Ti(57 at. pct)-Al(43 at. pct) alloy with an initial lamellar microstructure was thermomechanically processed to form an equiaxed fine-grained structure. The fine-grained (- L = 5 μm) material was supe...
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Chiral discrimination in the exchange of α-tocopherol stereoisomers between plasma and red blood cells
The transport of 2R,4′R, 8′R-α-tocopherol and 2S,4′R,8′R-α-tocopherol from plasma into rat red blood cell membranes occurs with essentially no chiral discrimination. The previously demonstrated (10) preference of...
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Induced enzyme release from synaptosomes by halothane
GABA-transaminase has been found to be released from rat brain synaptosomes by halothane in a dose-related manner. The releases of both GABA-transaminase and succinic semialdehyde dehydrogenase were increased ...
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Utilization of Barritt color reaction for studying synaptosomal creatine phosphokinase
The assay for creatine phosphokinase activity depending upon the color formation from creatine was reinvestigated. Its sensitivity was improved to 5 nmol of creatine. The method gave satisfactory Michaelis con...
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The study of quadrupole hyperfine interactions in pionic atoms of181Ta and165Ho
In Table 3 we have listed the Q values of165Ho and181Ta obtained by the pionic methods from this experiment and the one from Ebersoldet. al. and also the results by the muonic methods.4, 5 They are all in good ag...
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Further Support for the Subdivision of the Small Metabolic Compartment: Effect of Halothane
Originally, the concept of metabolic compartmentation was derived from the variation of the specific radioactivity ratio (SAR) of glutamine and glutamate when the brain was metabolizing various labeled substra...