1 Remote Sensing Lab., Dept. Signal Theory and Communications, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) Campus Nord, Bldg D3, Tel.: +34-934-017-362, E-08034 Barcelona, Spain; E-Mails: xavier.bosch@tsc.upc.edu (X.B.-L.); camps@tsc.upc.edu (A.C.); nereida@tsc.upc.edu (N.R.A.); jfmarchan@tsc.upc.edu (J.F.M.H.); valenzia@tsc.upc.edu (E.V.D.) 2 DAS Photonics, Ciudad Politécnica de la Innovación, C...

Genetic manipulation in enterohemorrhagic O157:H7 is currently E. coli restricted to recombineering, a method that utilizes the recombination system of bacteriophage lambda, to introduce gene replacements and base changes into the genome. Bacteriophage 933W is a prophage in inter alia E. coli O157:H7 strain EDL933, which encodes the genes ( ) for the production stx2AB of Shiga toxin which is th...

Background Under the guideline of Circular Letter LCCE/153, TTA has formed evaluation group (TTA EG) to test, said, IP-OFDMA for the 6th radio interface of IMT-2000. TTA would like to share the progress of evaluation to other groups and proponents and to clarify the questions in the relevant ITU-R Documents and comments provided by the Proponents in the contributions, 8F/1065 and 1079r1. We hav...

The single-phase intermetallic compounds GdFe12?xCrx (x ?= ?2, 2.5 and 3), elaborated by arc-melting method annealed at 1073 ?K, crystallize in the ThMn12-type structure with I4/mmm space group. structural, magnetic magnetocaloric properties of these were studied extensively means X-ray powder diffraction (XRD), Mössbauer spectrometry measurements. Rietveld analysis patterns reveals that lattic...

Methods Twenty-four critically ill patients (16M:8F, age 54 ± 16y, BMI 29 ± 6kg/m, APACHE II 17 ± 5, SOFA score 7.5 ± 4, day of admission 5 ± 4) with no history of biliary pathology were compared to 12 healthy volunteers (8M:4F, age 55 ± 19, BMI 24 ± 4). All participants were fasted for 8 hours and had a feeding catheter inserted into the duodenum. At T = -30min 3D images of the gallbladder wer...

OBJECTIVES/HYPOTHESIS The objective of this study was to investigate the effect of systemic heparin on tracheal and wound healing. STUDY DESIGN An animal experiment using a tracheal stent model. METHODS Twenty Wistar albino rats were divided into two groups; a heparin group (n = 10) that received 210 U/kg/d heparin sodium, and a saline group (n = 10) that received 0.1 mL of 9% NaCl. Stents ...

In this study, the effect of different DNA extraction procedures and primer sets on pyrosequencing results regarding the composition of bacterial communities in the ileum of piglets was investigated. Ileal chyme from piglets fed a diet containing different amounts of zinc oxide was used to evaluate a pyrosequencing study with barcoded 16S rRNA PCR products. Two DNA extraction methods (bead beat...

Abstract Feeding Saccharomyces cerevisiae fermentation product (SCFP) has previously altered fecal microbiota, metabolites, and immune cell function of adult dogs. The objective this study was to further measure circulating numbers activity, antioxidant status, oxidative stress marker concentrations dogs fed SCFP in an extruded diet. Sixteen pointer (8M, 8F; mean age = 8.35 y; BW 27.13 kg) were...

We propose that the recently discovered Θ(1540) baryon is a bound state of four quarks and an antiquark, containing two highly correlated ud-pairs. If so, the Θ(1540) has positive parity, and it lies in an near-ideally mixed SU(3)f 10f ⊕8f . The Roper resonance and the P11(1710) fit naturally into this classification. We predict an isospin 3/2 multiplet of Ξ’s (S = −2) with J = 1 2 + around 175...