escherichia coli o157:H7 is a foodborne pathogenic bacterium that resides in the intestinal tract of cattle and has been associated with a variety of foodstuffs including raw beef products (arthur et al. 2013, 2010, 2009; ebel et al. 2004; Macdonald et al. 2000; Vogt and dippold 2005; Wachtel et al. 2003). While most E. coli are harmless to humans, a handful of E. coli types can cause disease. ...

Under a variety of natural and experimental conditions, speakers and listeners distinguish among different types of non-native phonetic/phonological structure. For example, when asked to judge the acceptability of nonce words, speakers exhibit gradient preferences for certain non-native sound sequences over others (e.g., Greenberg and Jenkins 1964, Scholes 1966, Coleman and Pierrehumbert 1997, ...

Throughout the world, drug and alcohol use has a clear adolescent onset (Degenhardt et al., 2008). Alcohol continues to be the most popular drug among teens and emerging adults, with almost a third of 12th graders and 40% of college students reporting recent binge drinking (Johnston et al., 2009, 2010), and marijuana (MJ) is the second most popular drug in teens (Johnston et al., 2010). The ini...

Autosomal recessive spastic ataxia of Charlevoix-Saguenay (ARSACS) (OMIM #270550) was originally found among inhabitants of the Charlevoix-Saguenay region of Quebec (Bouchard et al., 1978). ARSACS patients in Quebec show uniform phenotypes characterized by early-onset spastic ataxia, peripheral neuropathy, retinal hypermyelination, hand or foot deformities, and normal mentality. In 2000, the SA...

Soybean is an important industrial crop in Croatia and in the last ten years (2000-2009) mean soybean harvested area was 45888 ha (from 35789 to 62810 ha) with average seed yield 2.0 t ha-1 (Central Croatian Bureau of Statistic, 2010). Seed yields of soybean varied in close connection with amount and distribution of precipitation during the vegetation period (Vučić and Bošnjak, 1980; Bošnjak, 2...

Picoa species are hypogeous desert truffles, which can be found in semi-arid ranges of North Africa, West Asian, South of Europe and Middle East, including Iran (Moreno et al. 2000, Jamali & Banihashemi 2012, 2013). Picoa species form symbiosis mainly on roots of annual and perennial herbaceous plants of the Helianthemum, including H. ledifolium and H. salicifolium var. salicifolium (Jamali & B...

Recently, Schmidt and colleagues reported that immunoglobulin Kappa C (IGKC) predicts a favourable response to chemotherapy and better metastasis-free survival in breast cancer patients (Schmidt et al., 2012). The authors validated the prognostic and predictive role of IGKC in 1,810 breast cancer, 1,056 non-small cell lung cancer and 513 colorectal cancer patient samples. The identification of ...

The success of assisted reproduction, although gradually increasing over the years, is still less than satisfactory. Many couples have benefited from this treatment; many have also been left frustrated following multiple failed attempts (Bulent Urman et al. 2005). Repeated implantation failure (RIF), defined as three or more failed IVF attempts or failure of IVF after cumula- Abstracts of the 5...

Renal cell carcinoma (RCC) is a term that includes a variety of cancers arising in the kidney and comprises several histologically, biologically, and clinically distinct entities (Linehan et al, 2007, 2009). An estimated 58,240 new cases of cancer arising in the kidney or renal pelvis were diagnosed in 2010 in the United States (Jemal et al, 2010). Approximately one third of all newly diagnosed...