Two commercial agar media for the cultivation of anaerobes were compared with four other media for their ability to support the growth of a wide range of anaerobes from clinical specimens of subgingival plaque. Fastidious anaerobe agar (FAA, Lab M) and anaerobe agar (GAA, Gibco) allowed better growth of the pure cultures than the other media. FAA recovered the highest numbers of bacteria from s...

Computer-Aided Design data and Solid Models are of immense importance across the full spectrum of engineering disciplines. Current industrial estimates point to the existence of over 30 billion CAD models in the world, with increasing numbers of them including 3D solid models. While the database and data mining communities have made great strides in management of image, audio and video media, l...

Using a freezing-thawing method for extracting colicine from solid media it has been shown that the choice of media for production and diffusion is important. Digest nutrient agar yielded the most colicine and peptone water agar the least. A factor in bacteriological peptone, but absent in a proteose peptone (Difco) and Neopeptone, was responsible for inhibiting production on peptone water agar...

The present investigation is concerned with the reflection and transmission coefficients of plane waves at the interface of generalized thermoelastic solid half space and heat conducting micropolar fluid half- space. The amplitude ratios of various reflected and transmitted waves with various angle of incidence have been computed numerically and depicted graphically. Micropolarity and thermal r...

In this paper, the nonlinear optical response of thermo-optic origin exhibited by series of Fuchsin dyes at low continous wave laser powers is studied in liquid and solid media and optical limiter action based on nonlinear refraction isdemonstrated.

A method for assessing the incidence of R factor transfer on solid media is described. The method gives values similar to those obtained with conventional techniques but allows the derepressed cells from a predominantly repressed population to be isolated.

Motivated by Rivlin's ideas on the thermomechanics of continuous media, we state the second law of thermodynamics in two parts and apply it to study the behavior of a mixture of an elastic solid and a viscous fluid.

We report a patient who presented to the ENT service complaining of nasal obstruction, exophthalmos, edema and ipsilateral facial congestion. Imaging studies revealed an aggressive noncalcified solid mass centered in the left nasoethmoidal region and heterogeneous avid enhancement following contrast media injection. Subsequently, a biopsy confirmed the presence of solid alveolar rhabdomyosarcom...

We develop models for the propagation of intense pulses in solid state media which can have either saturated absorption or reverse absorption. We model subluminal propagation in ruby and superluminal propagation in alexandrite as three and four level systems, respectively, coupled to Maxwell's equations. We present results well beyond the traditional pump-probe approach and explain the experime...

This article includes a series of methods for culturing the moss Physcomitrella patens at all stages of its life cycle. Gametophytes are axenically cultured on solid agar-based media and in shaken liquid cultures. For long-term storage of gametophytes, cultures are maintained on solid medium at 10°C in a very short day. Cryopreservation may also be used. Finally, sporophytes are generated by se...