The Seeplex RV Detection kit was used to identify specific respiratory viruses from specimens collected during respiratory outbreaks in the Greater Toronto Area from 1 September 2007 to 1 February 2008. Two hundred-thirty-one patient samples (nasopharyngeal swabs) were collected from 63 respiratory outbreaks. The distribution of outbreaks characterized by molecular means was: 30% (n=19) no iden...

Introduction Many widely used file organizations can be logically partitioned into two components; the index (also called directory) component and the data leaves component. The file records are maintained in data leaves where each data leaf (leaf for short) is one logical unit which is stored in contiguous disk pages. The index component is a search structure, usually a tree or a hash table, w...

Phenols as a class of molecules have been reported to exhibit higher log maximum fluxes through human stratum corneum, SC, from water, log JMHAQ, than other classes of molecules. This suggests that their corresponding log maximum fluxes through silicone from water, log JMPAQ, may be useful to extend the existing n = 63 log JMPAQ database to include more log JMPAQ values greater than 0.0. The lo...

The first step in steroidogenesis is the movement of cholesterol from the outer to inner mitochondrial membrane; this movement is facilitated by the steroidogenic acute regulatory protein (StAR). StAR has molten-globule properties at low pH and a protease-resistant N-terminal domain at pH 4 and pH 8 comprising residues 63-193. To explore the mechanism of action of StAR we investigated the struc...

This study aimed to identify histamine-forming bacteria (HFB) and the sources of introduction such recommend control measures mitigate histamine formation in yellowfin tuna (YFT). Field samples were collected from multi-day boats that landed at Dikkowita, Negombo, Trincomalee Dondra fishery harbours. Ice fish holds (n=63) chill transport vehicles (n=63), swabs boat decks skin YFT collected. Fis...

To function in the cell, nonmuscle myosin II molecules assemble into filaments through their C-terminal tails. Because myosin II isoforms most likely assemble into homo-filaments in vivo, it seems that some self-recognition mechanisms of individual myosin II isoforms should exist. Exogenous expression of myosin IIB rod fragment is thus expected to prevent the function of myosin IIB specifically...