Bandpass filter characteristics is numerically computed for semiconductor heterostructure based onedimensional photonic crystal at different optical wavelengths by varying the structural parameters taking GaAs/AlxGa1-xAs as a suitable composition subject to normal incidence of electromagnetic wave. Transfer matrix technique is used for numerical analysis. Results are compared with conventionall...

System setup. All vesicles were obtained by spontaneous aggregation of randomly placed lipids. This method is described in detail elsewhere [1]. An additional long equilibration run of 20 μs was performed for the mixed lipid systems (two artificial pores were present) [2]. In all cases, equilibrium of the vesicle was defined by the flux convergence of the lipid components. The pure POPC vesicle...

Brucellosis is a prevalent zoonotic disease and is endemic in the Middle East, South America, and other areas of the world. In this study, complete inventories of putative functional ABC systems of five Brucella species have been compiled and compared. ABC systems of Brucella melitensis 16M, Brucella abortus 9-941, Brucella canis RM6/66, Brucella suis 1330, and Brucella ovis 63/290 were identif...

There are important advantages to including reversed items in questionnaires (e.g., control of acquiescence, disruption of nonsubstantive responding, better coverage of the domain of content of a construct), but reversed items can also lead to measurement problems (e.g., low measure reliability, complex factor structures). The authors advocate the continued use of reversed items in measurement ...

CC This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons. org/licenses/by-nc/3.0) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. *Correspondence: Seon-Young Park, MD Department of Internal Medicine, Chonnam National U...

Multi-agent systems (MAS) are subject to performance bottlenecks in cases where agents cannot perform tasks by themselves due to insu cient resources. Solutions to such problems include passing tasks to others or agent migration to remote hosts. We propose agent cloning as a more comprehensive approach to the problem of local agent overloads. Agent cloning subsumes task transfer and agent mobil...

We have reported the study of methanol/AOT/n-heptane reverse micellar aggregates using Fourier Transform Infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy. We have divided our whole work into two parts. In the first part we have studied the structural properties of Aerosol OT (AOT) reverse micelles by monitoring the changes in the symmetrical sulfonate stretching region (1000-1100 cm(-1)), asymmetrical sulfonate st...

lungs in sudden infant death syndrome. Arch Dis Child 1985;60:471-3. 2 Talbert DG, Southall DP. A bimodal form of alveolar behaviour induced by a defect in lung surfactant-a possible mechanism for sudden infant death syndrome. Lancet 1985;i:1330. Southall DP, Talbert DG, Johnson P, et al. Prolonged expiratory apnoea: a disorder resulting in episodes of severe arterial hypoxaemia in infants and ...

We estimated the prevalence of HIV, HBV and HCV infections among injecting and noninjecting drug users treated within public drug-treatment centres in Italy to determine the correlates of infection. In the sample of 1330 drug users, the prevalence of HIV was 14.4% among drug injectors and 1.6% among non-injectors; the prevalence of HBV was 70.4% among injecting drug users and 22.8% among non-in...

OBJECTIVE To retrospectively review forensic autopsy cases of a Thai population to show the relationship between the normal internal organ weight and body weight and body length. MATERIAL AND METHOD The present study included 561 autopsies from Ramathibodi Hospital from August 2003 to June 2007. The subjects were from sudden unnatural death following criteria. The weighed organs included brai...