The threat of mass-casualty disasters raises concern about the adequacy of hospitals' surge capacity. This paper measures surge capacity as the number of empty staffed beds per capita at the county level and compares it to a disaster-planning benchmark released by the federal government. The percentage of the U.S. population living in counties falling below the benchmark increased from 19 perce...

Typo-squatting refers to the practice of registering domain names that are typo variations of popular websites. We propose a new approach, called Strider Typo-Patrol, to discover large-scale, systematic typosquatters. We show that a large number of typosquatting domains are active and a large percentage of them are parked with a handful of major domain parking services, which serve syndicated a...

Nearly two million more young Americans under the age of 30 voted in the 2008 presidential elections as compared to the 2004 elections, according to new Census data analyzed and released by CIRCLE. The increase is a continuation of the trend observed in the 2004 and 2006 elections. Youth turnout was 11 percentage points higher than in 1996, which was the low point after decades of decline. Whil...

Most statistics from animal control agencies in the Caribbean on the number of stray dogs rescued annually will show that initially there is a significant decline in numbers followed within a few years by a levelling off, after which, the numbers remain relatively constant. While this may be interpreted in many ways, I believe that a reason for this is because a very high percentage of “stray” ...

1. As in man, the plasma iron concentration in rats exhibits a circadian variation, with an early morning peak and an evening trough. 2. The release into the plasma of iron liberated from haemoglobin within the reticuloendothelial cells of the liver and spleen was studied by injecting heat-damaged erythrocytes containing 59Fe-labelled haemoglobin. 3. The percentage of 59Fe released was lower in...

The aim of this study was to investigate the combined influence of 3 independent variables in the compression coated tablet of mesalamine for ulcerative colitis. A 3-factor, 3-level Box-Behnken design was used to derive a second order polynomial equation and construct contour plots to predict responses. The independent variables selected were: percentage of polymers (pectin and compritol ATO 88...

Companion viruses have not received as much attention as their non-companion counterparts. To some extent this is due to the fact that only a small percentage of the computer viruses released into the computing world have been companion viruses. However, this may change in the near future. Companion viruses do not have size restrictions that noncompanion viruses have. Thus, these viruses can be...

Chlorella cell envelopes were isolated by a mechanical procedure. The obtained morphological structure shown in an EM-picture has a mean density of rho=1.42. A characteristic chemical property of the envelope is the percentage of mono- and di-unsaturated C18-fatty acids which is considerably higher than that of intact cells. With 14C labelled sugars a selectivity of the hexose uptake could be s...

Germination of Microsporum gypseum macroconidia was accompanied by the release of alkaline protease, calcium ions, and inorganic phosphate into the germination fluid. The rate of germination was greatest during the first 2 hr, decreasing thereafter. This decrease in rate was accompanied by a decrease in protease activity, which was caused by an interaction of the enzyme with the inorganic phosp...

When Escherichia coli Olll:B4 is exposed briefly to ethylenediaminetetraacetate (EDTA) it releases 30 to 50% of its lipopolysaccharide, determined not only by measuring percentage release of colitose, a sugar unique to this polymer, but also by measuring the amount of phenol-extractable lipopolysaccharide remaining with the cell. The fraction released cannot be significantly increased above 50%...