We measured the 229 nm absolute ultraviolet (UV) Raman cross-sections of the explosives trinitrotoluene (TNT), pentaerythritol tetranitrate (PETN), cyclotrimethylene-trinitramine (RDX), the chemically related nitroamine explosive HMX, and ammonium nitrate in solution. The 229 nm Raman cross-sections are 1000-fold greater than those excited in the near-infrared and visible spectral regions. Deep...

HAYABUSA. T. Okada, K. Shirai, Y. Yamamoto, T. Arai, K. Ogawa, K. Hosono, and M. Kato, Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, 3-1-1 Yoshinodai, Sagamihara, Kanagawa 229-8510, Japan. [email protected], University of Tokyo, Hongo, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan., Graduate University for Advanced Studies, Sagamihara, Kanagawa 229-8510, Japan, 4 Tokyo ...

OBJECTIVE To estimate clinical and social benchmarks for interpretation of score differences on the Short-Form 36 Health Survey, and apply these benchmarks to populations with diabetes mellitus (DM). METHODS Using survival and logistic regression models, we reanalyzed data from three US cohorts: the Medical Outcomes Study (N = 3,445; 541 patients with DM), the Medicare Health Outcomes Survey ...

The purpose was to compare and comment on use of the SF-36 and MOS-HIV instruments in studies of persons with HIV disease. Three medical information databases were searched to identify examples of HIV studies that included the MOS-HIV or SF-36. Thirty-nine and 14 published articles were identified for illustration in comparing the use of the MOS-HIV and SF-36 in HIV disease, respectively. Suppo...

This study explored the usefulness of a generic health assessment tool SF-36 in measuring perceived health outcomes in a developing-country setting. The adapted Bangla version was administered in 10 villages of Matlab sub-district in Bangladesh during second half of 1999. Respondents included currently-married males and females selected randomly from households stratified according to their ass...

Chapter Outline 1. How Do New Viral Diseases Emerge? 215 1.1 Discovery of the Etiology of an Existing Disease 215 1.2 Increase in Disease Caused by an Existing Virus 216 1.3 Accumulation of Susceptible Hosts and Viral Reemergence 217 1.4 Virus New to a Specific Population 217 2. Zoonotic Infections as a Source of Emerging Viral Diseases 217 2.1 Dead-end Hosts 217 2.2 Limited Spread among Humans...

This article is a Commentary on Puy et al. (2021), 229: 3497–3507.

Acinetobacter bereziniae (formerly Acinetobacter genomospecies 10) isolate Nec was recovered from a skin sample of a patient hospitalized in Paris, France. It was resistant to penicillins, penicillin-inhibitor combinations, and carbapenems. Cloning and expression in Escherichia coli identified the carbapenem-hydrolyzing class D β-lactamase OXA-229, which is weakly related to other oxacillinases...