We report a metastable bcc phase that intervenes between a disordered micellar suspension and an fcc crystal in a block copolymer solution. Upon heating, the metastable bcc phase nucleates first, and then transforms over the course of hours to the stable fcc phase. At still higher temperatures, the fcc phase transforms to an equilibrium bcc phase. These results constitute an interesting experim...

In this paper, the notions of left-right (resp. right-left) t-derivations of BCC-algebras are studied and some properties on t-derivations of BCC-algebras are investigated. This paper also considers t-regular t -derivations and the dt-invariant on ideals of BCC-algebras. Mathematics Subject Classification: 06F35

We describe weak BCC-algebras (also called BZ-algebras) in which the condition (xy)z = (xz)y is satisfied only in the case when elements x, y belong to the same branch. We also characterize branchwise commutative and branchwise implicative weak BCC-algebras satisfying this condition. We also describe connections between various types of implicative weak BCC-algebras.

Bacterial communities are immensely diverse and drive many fundamental ecosystem processes. However, the role of bacterial community composition (BCC) for functioning is still unclear. Here we evaluate the relative importance of BCC (from 454-sequencing), functional traits (from Biolog Ecoplates) and environmental conditions for per cell biomass production (BPC; 3H-leucine incorporation) in six...

Basal cell carcinoma (BCC) is the most common skin cancer in North Queensland, Australia. The role of telomerase in BCC has not been investigated in this region. The objective of the study was to investigate the expression levels of human telomerase reverse transcriptase (hTERT) and telomerase activity in nodular BCCs and superficial BCCs from patients living in North Queensland. Matched tumor ...

The permeance of Pd–Cu alloys containing 40, 53, 60, and 80 wt.% Pd has been determined over the 623–1173 K temperature range for H2 partial pressure differences as great as 2.6 MPa. Pure palladium and copper membranes were also evaluated. The Pd–Cu alloys exhibited predictable permeances that reflected the crystalline phase structures as shown in the binary phase diagram. Under conditions of f...

© 2014 Harborside Press® Skin cancer is the most common cancer type in the United States, affecting more than 3 million people nationally (Cirrone & Harris, 2012). Basal cell carcinoma (BCC) and squamous cell carcinoma are the two main types of nonmelanoma skin cancer, while the more serious form, melanoma, is in its own category. An estimated 80% of nonmelanoma skin cancers are BCCs (Sekulic e...

It is bewildering, in the face of so much evidence for the potential for cross-infection between patients – cross-infection that may have devastating consequences – that we continue to debate the advantages (numerous and important) and disadvantages (few and largely irrelevant) of keeping patients separated. Amazingly, to my mind, there has been no resolution of the conflicting points of view s...