Sarah Everard & Nirbhaya: Comparisions and Commonalities

Dr. L. Everard Napier

Sarah Browall

Streptococcus pneumoniae is a gram-positive bacterium that can be found in both healthy carriers as well as in people that have developed disease. One of the major virulence factors of pneumococci is their polysaccharide capsule. Based on the capsule that surrounds the bacteria, pneumococci are divided into at least 90 different serotypes. Some serotypes seem to be more related to virulence tha...

Sarah Amy Hill

When Jim Lyons-Weiler and I discussed what we might do with an Open Access journal on Cancer Informatics, we both felt that it was important to avoid loosing focus on what the end-point of both the research and its dissemination is. In all its forms cancer is inevitably an unpleasant affl iction that harms every aspect of the lives of sufferers and those who love them. Jim and I want this journ...

Adms-airport: Model Inter-comparisions and Model Validation

The functionality of ADMS-Airport and details of its use in the Model Inter-comparison Study of the Project for the Sustainable Development of Heathrow Airport (PSDH) have previously been presented, Carruthers et al (2007). A distinguishing feature is the treatment of jet engine emissions as moving jet sources rather than averaging these emissions into volume sources as is the case in some othe...

Gut and root microbiota commonalities.

Animal guts and plant roots have absorption roles for nutrient uptake and converge in harboring large, complex, and dynamic groups of microbes that participate in degradation or modification of nutrients and other substances. Gut and root bacteria regulate host gene expression, provide metabolic capabilities, essential nutrients, and protection against pathogens, and seem to share evolutionary ...