INTRODUCTION Group B streptococci (GBS) are transmitted from the mother to the newborn. Prevention of neonatal infection is achieved by intrapartum prophylaxis given to mothers colonized with GBS at 35 to 37 weeks of pregnancy. MATERIALS AND METHODS Liquid biphasic Granada medium (LB) and instant liquid biphasic Granada medium (ILB) were evaluated for GBS detection. Vaginal swabs obtained fro...

The observational and theoretical state of Galactic and extragalactic bubbles are reviewed. Observations of superbubbles are discussed, with some emphasis on nearby bubbles such as the Local Bubble (LB) and the Loop I superbubble (LI). Analytical bubble theory is revisited, and similarity solutions, including the time-dependent energy input by supernova explosions according to a Galactic initia...

The UV radiation from a quasar leaves a characteristic pattern in the distribution of ionized hydrogenthroughout the surrounding space. This pattern or light echo propagates through the intergalacticmedium at the speed of light, and can be observed by its imprint on the Lyα forest spectra of background sources. As the echo persists after the quasar has switched off, it offers the possib...

For a half-century, engineers know how to describe and predict thepropagation of a crack in a model elastic homogeneous medium. The case of real ma-terials is much more complex. Indeed, we do not know how to relate their lifetime ortheir resistance to their microstructure. To achieve such a prediction, understandingthe role of the microstructural disorder on the behavior of a cr...

Buchnericin LB produced by Lactobacillus buchneri LB was purified to homogeneity by a rapid and simple three-step purification procedure including freeze drying, silicic acid adsorption/desorption and cation-exchange chromatography. After the silicic acid and cation-exchange chromatography steps, the activity of buchnericin LB was recovered by 85 and 25%, and its purity increased about 111 and ...

Afifi, T.o., Enns, M.W., Cox, B.J., Asmundson, G.J.G., Stein,M.B., & Sareen, J. (2008). Population attributable fractionsof psychiatric disorders and suicide ideation and attemptsassociated with adverse childhood experiences. AmericanJournal of Public Health, 98, 946-952. We sought to determinethe fractions of psychiatric disorders and suicide ideation andattempts in a g...

We have investigated the first events that occur when exponentially grown cells are transferred from a liquid medium (Luria-Bertani [LB]) to a solid medium (LB agar [LBA]). We observed an initial lag phase of 180 min for the wild type MG1655 without any apparent growth. This lack of growth was independent of the bacterial physiological state (either the stationary or the exponential phase), the...

The paper wasp Polistes dominulus is unique among the social insects in that nearly one-third of co-foundresses arecompletely unrelated to the dominant individual whose offspring they help to rear and yet reproductive skew is high. Theseunrelated subordinates stand to gain direct fitness through nest inheritance, raising the question of whether their behaviouris adaptively tailo...

ionComponentUI-Component ConnectionComponent ControlComponent DescriptionComponent Figure 4: Correspondence with PAC and DPACagents.also be employed when de-signing GUIs. Photon is anexample of an object-basedtool for creating GUIs forcontrol systems [7]. Themicro kernel and the wid-get library of the tool pro-vide the core of a user i...

Recently, Cangelosi and Brabant used oligonucleotide probes targeting the precursor 16S rRNA of Escherichia coli to demonstrate that the levels of precursor rRNA were more sensitive to changes in growth phase than the levels of total rRNA (G. A. Cangelosi and W. H. Brabant, J. Bacteriol. 179:4457-4463, 1997). In order to measure changes in the levels of precursor rRNA in activated sludge system...