The effect of 10% carbon dioxide on the sensitivity to four antibiotics of 10 strains of Bacteroides fragilis was studied. The minimum inhibitory concentrations of erythromycin and lincomycin hydrochloride for these strains were four to 32 times higher, when grown in hydrogen plus 10% carbon dioxide, than the values obtained when the strains were grown in pure hydrogen. A similar effect was obt...

BACKGROUND The cardiopulmonary effects of the combination of abdominal and thoracic pressures in humans have not been well delineated. OBJECTIVE To study the cardiopulmonary effects of 15 mm Hg of intra-abdominal pressure in the presence and absence of 10 cm H20 of positive end-expiratory pressure (PEEP). DESIGN Prospective. SETTING University hospital. METHODS Nine patients undergoing ...

The title non-stoichiometric penta-lanthanum zinc diplumbide, La5Zn1-x Pb2+x (x ≃ 0.6), was prepared from the elements in an evacuated silica ampoule. It adopts the Nb5Sn2Si-type structure (space group I4/mcm, Pearson symbol tI32), a ternary ordered superstructure of the W5Si3 type. Among the four independent crystallographic positions, three are fully occupied by La (Wyckoff 16k), La (4b), and...

Fletcher, R. D. (University of Connecticut, Storrs), and W. N. Plastridge. Gaseous environment and growth of microaerophilic vibrios. J. Bacteriol. 87:352-355. 1964.-Strains of microaerophilic vibrios from cattle, chickens, man, and sheep were placed in four groups on the basis of catalase and H(2)S production and glycine tolerance. By these tests group I was + - -, group II was + - +, group II...

We report on the activation of CO2 by the well-defined alkylzinc hydroxide (tBuZnOH)6 in the absence and presence of tBu2Zn as an external proton acceptor. The slight modifications in reaction systems involving organozinc precursors enable control of the reaction products with high selectivity leading to the isolation of the mesoporous solid based on ZnCO3 nanoparticles or an unprecedented disc...

Mesoporous zinc germanium oxynitride was synthesized by a template-free method at high temperature. Through optimizing redox potentials as well as improving crystallinity, this material showed enhanced activity in CO(2) photoreduction.

A model-based approach is here developed and applied to predict the long-term trends of indirect photochemical processes in the surface layer (5m water depth) of Lake Maggiore, NW Italy. For this lake, time series of the main parameters of photochemical importance that cover almost two decades are available. As a way to assess the relevant photochemical reactions, the modelled steady-state conc...

The application of pressure, internal or external, transforms molecular solids into non-molecular extended network solids with diverse crystal structures and electronic properties. These transformations can be understood in terms of pressure-induced electron delocalization; however, the governing mechanisms are complex because of strong lattice strains, phase metastability and path dependent ph...

Synthesis and reactivity of monomeric magnesium and zinc silyl compounds To(M)M-Si(SiHMe2)3 and To(M)M-Si(SiMe3)3 are described (To(M) = tris(4,4-dimethyl-2-oxazolinyl)phenylborate). The magnesium compounds react slowly with water and air, while the zinc compounds are inert. With CO2, To(M)Mg-Si(SiHMe2)3 provides To(M)MgO2CSi(SiHMe2)3 through CO2 insertion, whereas To(M)Zn-Si(SiHMe2)3 affords T...