Before an enteropathogen binds to the small bowel, it must interact with the small-bowel mucus (SBM) layer. To determine whether this interaction involves specific binding of diarrheagenic Escherichia coli, we used a quantitative assay with labeled, purified rabbit SBM. Binding of SBM from an adult rabbit was significantly greater to strain 162, an agglutinating E. coli strain, than it was to R...

Large Scale Shocks are responsible for the heating of the ICM and can be important sources of Cosmic Rays (CR) in the Universe. However the occurrence and properties of these shocks are still poorly constrained from both a theoretical and an observational side. In this work we analyze the properties of Large Scale Shocks in a (103Mpc/h) cosmological volume simulated with the public 1.0.1 releas...

in this paper, nonlinear behavior of composite steel plate shear wall systems, in which steel infill plate is strengthened by fiber reinforced polymer (frp) layers, are experimentally investigated. tests are designed to evaluate the effect of glass-frp layers, layers number of gfrp and orientation of gfrp layers on the stiffness, shear strength, cumulative dissipated energy and other seismic pa...

As the temperature of electronic devices increases, their failure rate increases. That is why electrical devices should be cooled. One of the promising cooling techniques is using Phase Change Materials (PCMs). A new passive temperature management technique, that involves the direct placement of PCMs on the chip, has been explored and developed. PCMs are potential temperature regulators that ca...

Two assays were developed to quantitate the adherence of an Escherichia coli strain (RDEC-1) known to colonize the mucosal surface of the small intestine of rabbits to brush borders isolated from rabbit intestinal epithelial cells. In the first assay, the mean adherence per rabbit brush border was determined by counting the number of organisms adhering to each of 40 brush borders under phase mi...