The thymus dependency of immunity to erythrocytic Plasmodium berghei (NYU-2) infection generated in response to injections of Formalin-killed mixed blood parasites was shown by the demonstration that the vaccine protected immunologically intact nu/+ mice, but not their athymic nu/nu littermates.

The purpose of this report was to study the role of T lymphocytes following injection of Porphyromonas gingivalis in a mouse abscess model. Three invasive P. gingivalis isolates (ATCC 53977, W83, and AJW4) were injected into athymic BALB/c mice and their heterozygous (nu/+) littermates. The athymic BALB/c (nu/nu) mice were able to localize the invasive P. gingivalis isolates at the injection si...

We developed a novel technique for frequency measurement and synthesis, based on the operation of a femtosecond comb generator as transfer oscillator. The technique can be used to measure frequency ratios of any optical signals throughout the visible and near-infrared part of the spectrum. Relative uncertainties of 10(-18) for averaging times of 100 s are possible. Using a Nd:YAG laser in combi...

We constrain f(nu) identical with Omega(nu)/Omega(m), the fractional contribution of neutrinos to the total mass density in the Universe, by comparing the power spectrum of fluctuations derived from the 2 Degree Field Galaxy Redshift Survey with power spectra for models with four components: baryons, cold dark matter, massive neutrinos, and a cosmological constant. Adding constraints from indep...

This paper introduces a new form for the Recursive Input Estimation problem. The proposed algorithm needs the inversion at each sample time of one ny×ny and one nu×nu matrices, whereas the classical formulation requires the inversion of two ny× ny matrices. Consequently, a reduction of computation time occurs in the case where ny > nu, ny being the number of measurements and nu the number of in...

The time scales and mechanisms of mode-specific vibrational energy relaxation in imidazole ligated ferrous iron porphine were studied using a non-Markovian time-dependent perturbation theory and density functional theory calculation. Seven normal modes, including nu(4), nu(7), and five Fe out-of-plane modes (Fe-oop), were treated as the relaxing system mode coupled to all other modes forming th...

Codeposition of thermally generated atomic germanium vapor and nitrous oxide (N(2)O) in Ar onto a substrate at 11 K produced infrared absorption lines in several sets. The most prominent comprises intense lines at 1443.7, 1102.4, and 784.0 cm(-1) that become diminished upon irradiation with UV or visible light. These lines are attributed to nu(1) (NO stretching), nu(2) (NN+GeN stretching), and ...

A gamma-ray burst fireball is likely to contain an admixture of neutrons. Inelastic collisions between differentially streaming protons and neutrons in the fireball produce nu(&mgr;) (nu;(&mgr;)) of approximately 10 GeV as well as nu(e) (nu;(e)) of approximately 5 GeV, which could produce approximately 7 events/year in km(3) detectors, if the neutron abundance is comparable to that of protons. ...

A bstract The NA62 experiment reports the branching ratio measurement $$ \mathrm{BR}\left({K}^{+}\to {\pi}^{+}\nu \overline{\nu}\right)=\left({10.6}_{-3.4}^{+4.0}\left|{}_{\mathrm{stat}}\right.\pm {0.9}_{\mathrm{syst}}\right)\times {10}^{-11} BR K + </...