The Black Death, originating in Asia, arrived in the Mediterranean harbors of Europe in 1347 CE, via the land and sea trade routes of the ancient Silk Road system. This epidemic marked the start of the second plague pandemic, which lasted in Europe until the early 19th century. This pandemic is generally understood as the consequence of a singular introduction of Yersinia pestis, after which th...

Silman and colleagues [J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 76, 1347-1362 (1984)] have reported an apparent effect of late auditory deprivation; this presents as loss of discrimination over time in the unaided ear of individuals using a single hearing aid fitted in middle age. In a replication of the basic effect, the influence of presentation level was examined in 24 monaurally aided subjects. The effect was r...

This study demonstrates the application of FT-IR spectroscopy for investigating the remediation of pink water with the low cost adsorbent pine bark. The removal of 2,4,6-trinitrotoluene (TNT) from pink water by adsorption to pine bark was accompanied by a reduction in intensities of peaks at 1544 and 1347 cm in the spectra of acetonitrile extracts of the pine bark. Hierarchial cluster analysis ...

SUMMARY Although in silico drug discovery approaches are crucial for the development of pharmaceuticals, their potential advantages in agrochemical industry have not been realized. The challenge for computer-aided methods in agrochemical arena is a lack of sufficient information for both pesticides and their targets. Therefore, it is important to establish such knowledge repertoire that contain...

GINN, H. EARL, AND LINDA L. SHANBOUR. Phosphaturia in magnesium-dejcient rats. Am. J. Physiol. 2 12(6) : 1347-1350. rg67.-The effect of magnesium deficiency on urinary phosphate excretion was studied in rats rendered magnesium deficient by diet. Increased urinary phosphate excretion was observed. Tubular maximum reabsorption (Tm) of inorganic phosphate was lower in magnesium-deficient (0.9 =t 0...

1Department of Parasitology, National Institute of Hygiene, Rabat, Morocco. ABSTRACT The malaria transmission level of Plasmodium vivax was monitored in four high-risk provinces in Morocco. Intensive mosquito collection by light traps and manual catches resulted in the capture of four species: Anopheles labranchiae, An. sergenti, An. cinereus, and An. claviger. All An. sergenti and An. labranch...

The stability of consumer-resource systems can depend on the form of feeding interactions (i.e. functional responses). Size-based models predict interactions - and thus stability - based on consumer-resource size ratios. However, little is known about how interaction contexts (e.g. simple or complex habitats) might alter scaling relationships. Addressing this, we experimentally measured interac...

Visualization systems allow the visualization of n-dimensional data. In order to do so, the systems read the data, then convert the data into a phase space, and finally visualize the phase space. This paper discusses a visualization framework, which allows the creation of visualization systems ranging from visualizing the behavior of atoms under the influence of temperature to colliding galaxie...