BACKGROUND Severe liver injuries were attributed to the rifampin and pyrazinamide (RZ) regimen after it was recommended for treating latent tuberculosis infection. Implicating RZ as the likeliest cause required excluding alternative causes. METHODS US health departments reported data on patients who died or were hospitalized for liver disease within 1 month after taking RZ for latent tubercul...

Previous work has suggested that peach scion cultivar exerts a significant influence on incidence of peach tree short life (PTSL) in trees budded onto Nemaguard and Flordaguard seedling peach rootstocks. If this influence is consistent across a range of rootstocks then the influence of scion cultivar might offer a new tool for the management of PTSL. Growers could minimize losses on those sites...

Optically injection-locked single-wavelength gain-switching VCSEL based all-optical converter is demonstrated to generate RZ data at 2.5 Gbit/s with bit-error-rate of 10(-9) under receiving power of -29.3 dBm. A modified rate equation model is established to elucidate the optical injection induced gain-switching and NRZ-to-RZ data conversion in the VCSEL. The peak-to-peak frequency chirp of the...

This paper proposes a scheme for format conversion from a distorted non-return-to-zero (NRZ) signal to a high-quality return-to-zero (RZ) signal, using the nonlinearity in a coupled ring-resonator optical waveguide (CROW) on a silicon chip. In this method, a distorted NRZ signal is amplified and fed into the CROW together with an RZ pulse train. The CROW performs as a nonlinear step gate for th...

The effects of cationic porphyrins on the catalytic activities of four group I ribozymes were investigated. A cationic porphyrin possessing four pyridinium moieties (pPyP) inhibited two group IC3 ribozymes (Syn Rz and Azo Rz) and a group IC1 ribozyme (Tet Rz). In the case of a group IA2 ribozyme (Td Rz), however, pPyP served not only as an inhibitor but also as an activator, and the effects of ...

This paper demonstrates the comparison of 40 Gbps DWDM system using hybrid optical amplifier configurations (EDFA-EDFA and EDFA-SOA ) are implemented with RZ and NRZ encoding techniques at various distance along with DCF having dispersion 80 ps/nm/Km . DWDM systems with 4 channels each having a bit rate of 10 Gbps and 0.8 nm equal channel spacing. The performance of EDFA-EDFA and EDFA-SOA hybri...

Two selective stability-indicating HPLC methods are described for determination of rabeprazole sodium (RZ)-mosapride citrate (MR) and RZ-itopride hydrochloride (IO) mixtures in the presence of their ICH-stress formed degradation products. Separations were achieved on X-Bridge C18 column using two mobile phases: the first for RZ-MR mixture consisted of acetonitrile: 0.025 M KH2PO4 solution: TEA ...

Forms of aluminum (Al) present in the solution tropical and subtropical soils can cause toxicity rootstocks peach cultivars, impairing growth productivity. This be minimized by growing Al-tolerant cultivars. However, this is not sufficiently known, especially because plant breeding programs do always consider tolerance as a selection variable for genetic materials. The study aimed to (a) select...

In this letter, we have studied the spin torque based magnetization oscillations and switching in presence of Rashba - Zeeman (RZ), Ruderman Kittel Kasuya Yoside (RKKY) Dzyaloshinskii Moriya (DM) interactions a double barrier RZ$|$Heavy Metal (HM)$|$RZ magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ). The system has stable can work as an oscillator or switcher for significant difference strength RKKY DM interact...