In a previous communication, Sheets et al. (1954) have shown that three phenol-resistant organisms, a sporeforming rod, a coccus and a short rod, belonging to the genera Bacillus, Micrococcus and Pseudomonas respectively, were isolated from a trickling filter, operated continuously at 54 C for the treatment of phenolic wastes. The Pseudomonas-like rod predominated over the other two types. A pu...

Jorge A. Alvarez, MD, PhD; E. John Orav, PhD; James D. Wilkinson, MD, MPH; Lora E. Fleming, MD, PhD, MPH; David J. Lee, PhD; Lynn A. Sleeper, ScD; Paolo G. Rusconi, MD; Steven D. Colan, MD; Daphne T. Hsu, MD; Charles E. Canter, MD; Steven A. Webber, MBChB; Gerald F. Cox, MD, PhD; John L. Jefferies, MD, MPH; Jeffrey A. Towbin, MD; Steven E. Lipshultz, MD; for the Pediatric Cardiomyopathy Registr...

The efficacy of a photostable formulation of methoprene and two photostable juvenoids, fenoxycarb and pyriproxyfen, and their residual activity in inhibiting the emergence of adult cat fleas, Ctenocephalides felis (Bouché), was studied in topsoil. Nursery pots composed of clay, peat, and plastic, and wooden flats were used to hold soil samples. Treated soil samples were exposed to sunlight duri...

Structural damage inspection after an earthquake is essential for safety assessment of the affected wood-frame buildings and for making knowledgeable decision regarding their repair, renovation, or replacement. We present a polarimetric radar system for sensing the concealed wood-frames damaged by earthquakes. This system employs an antenna array consisting of four linearly polarized Vivaldi an...

This study was conducted to characterize metabolic features of the breast muscle (pectoralis major) in chickens affected with the Wooden Breast myopathy. Live birds from two purebred chicken lines and one crossbred commercial broiler population were clinically examined by manual palpation of the breast muscle (pectoralis major) at 47-48 days of age. Metabolite abundance was determined by gas ch...

Aranbaltza is an archaeological complex formed by at least three open-air sites. Between 2014 and 2015 a test excavation carried out in Aranbaltza III revealed the presence of a sand and clay sedimentary sequence formed in floodplain environments, within which six sedimentary units have been identified. This sequence was formed between 137-50 ka, and includes several archaeological horizons, at...

Daphne T. Hsu, MD; Victor Zak, PhD; Lynn Mahony, MD; Lynn A. Sleeper, ScD; Andrew M. Atz, MD; Jami C. Levine, MD; Piers C. Barker, MD; Chitra Ravishankar, MD; Brian W. McCrindle, MD; Richard V. Williams, MD; Karen Altmann, MD; Nancy S. Ghanayem, MD; Renee Margossian, MD; Wendy K. Chung, MD; William L. Border, MBChB, MPH; Gail D. Pearson, MD, ScD; Mario P. Stylianou, PhD; Seema Mital, MD; for th...

OBJECTIVES To compare the injury risk in pivoting indoor sports between two different surfaces: artificial floors and wooden floors. METHODS Female players (n = 331) from 26 top-level Finnish floorball teams were followed for one competitive season (6 months). All traumatic game related time-loss injuries were recorded. Injury incidences were calculated as the number of injuries per 1000 game...

Herein, we use genetic data from 277 sleeper sharks to perform coalescent-based modeling to test the hypothesis of early Quaternary emergence of the Greenland shark (Somniosus microcephalus) from ancestral sleeper sharks in the Canadian Arctic-Subarctic region. Our results show that morphologically cryptic somniosids S. microcephalus and Somniosus pacificus can be genetically distinguished usin...

ONE OF THE GREAT PUZZLES OF SLEEP IS THE EXTENT TO WHICH THE SLEEPER IS AWARE OF EVENTS IN THEIR EXTERNAL ENVIRONMENT. Information processing capabilities at sleep onset and across various depths of sleep are of interest to a general audience, including psychologists, philosophers, and those in the medical field (particularly anesthesiologists). Awareness during sleep is relevant for studies of...