The Bulletin—October 18, 2012

2012-05-17-066 Paratuberculosis databases updated (2012-05-18)

Equids are considered highly resistant to mycobacterial infections and clinical cases have been described in domestic horses only. Mycobacterium bovis is the most common species reported, although a single report exists of disease due to definitively diagnosed infection with Mycobacterium avium subsp. hominissuis in two domestic horses. This is the first report of a mycobacterial infection in a...

18.S997 Fall 2012 The Polynomial Method: Degree Reduction

(should we prove it?...) If deg(S) is significantly smaller than |S|, then it means that S has more algebraic structure than a generic set. We are going to explore the connection between combinatorial properties of a set S and its algebraic structure. We will see that interesting examples in the kind of incidence geometry questions we have been studying need to have algebraic structure. Once we...

5 - 18 - 2012 α Width of 18 Ne ( 6 . 15 MeV , 1 – )

Data for the 14C(6Li,d)18O(6.20) reaction, at 20 MeV, provides an α spectroscopic factor of 0.23 for this 1– state. Assuming equal spectroscopic factors for mirror states, the computed α width for 18Ne(6.15) is 3.9(1.0) eV. Disciplines Physical Sciences and Mathematics | Physics Comments Fortune, H. T. (2012). α Width of 18Ne(6.15 MeV, 1–). Physical Review C, 85(5), 052801. doi: 10.1103/ PhysRe...

6 . 851 : Advanced Data Structures Spring 2012 Lecture 18 — April 26 , 2012

Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Consumption Among Adults — 18 States, 2012

Reducing consumption of calories from added sugars is a recommendation of the 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans and an objective of Healthy People 2020. Sugar-sweetened beverages (SSB) are major sources of added sugars in the diets of U.S. residents. Daily SSB consumption is associated with obesity and other chronic health conditions, including diabetes and cardiovascular disease. U.S. adul...