Studies on Marine Nitrifying Bacteria (Nitrite Formers and Nitrate formers)-VI

Editorial: Spores and Spore Formers

Coarse-grained microscopic model of glass formers.

We introduce a coarse-grained model for atomic glass formers. Its elements are physically motivated local microscopic dynamical rules parameterized by observables. Results of the model are established and used to interpret the measured behaviors of supercooled fluids approaching glass transitions. The model predicts the presence of a crossover from hierarchical super-Arrhenius dynamics at short...

Percutaneous renal biopsy specimens in stone formers.

A series of renal biopsy specimens taken at the time of percutaneous nephrolithotomy were investigated for the presence and location of foci of microcalcification. Calcium was found in 18 of 25 (72%) of biopsy specimens from stone formers and in only seven of 30 (23%) of control biopsy specimens. This may indicate defective intrarenal handling of calcium as plasma calcium concentration was norm...

Corresponding states of structural glass formers.

The variation with respect to temperature T of transport properties of 58 fragile structural glass-forming liquids (67 data sets in total) are analyzed and shown to exhibit a remarkable degree of universality. In particular, super-Arrhenius behaviors of all supercooled liquids appear to collapse to one parabola for which there is no singular behavior at any finite temperature. This behavior is ...

Chronic kidney disease in kidney stone formers.

Recent population studies have found symptomatic kidney stone formers to be at increased risk for chronic kidney disease (CKD). Although kidney stones are not commonly identified as the primary cause of ESRD, they still may be important contributing factors. Paradoxically, CKD can be protective against forming kidney stones because of the substantial reduction in urine calcium excretion. Among ...