An investigation was conducted to evaluate the hypothesis that a bearded man subjects his family and friends to risk of infection if his beard is contaminated by infectious microorganisms while he is working in a microbiological laboratory. Bearded and unbearded men were tested with Serratia marcescens and Bacillus subtilis var. niger. Contact aerosol transmission from a contaminated beard on a...

Circumstantial evidence has suggested that the primary cilium might function as a gravity sensor. Direct evidence of its gravity-sensing function has recently been provided by studies of rohon beard neurons. These neurons showed changes in the variability of gene expression levels that are linked to the cyclic changes in the Earth's gravitational field due to the Sun and Moon. These cyclic chan...

This paper presents a small-scale acoustic investigation into postvocalic /r/ in both middle class and working class varieties of the Glaswegian accent. Tokens of /CVC/ and /CVrC/ minimal pairs (e.g. hut/hurt, bead/beard) were elicited from two middleclass and two working-class speakers, and the formant frequencies throughout the V(r) portion were analysed. The results show significant differen...

Viral folliculitis is a rare disease usually caused by herpes simplex, herpes zoster and molluscum contagiosum in immune-compromised patients. An otherwise healthy 30 year old patient without history of herpes simplex contracted a folliculitis in the beard region after a flu-like illness. He had no oral or labial lesions but instead showed a crusty erythematous folliculitis confined to the bear...

1. Beard CB, Fox MR, Lawrence GG, et al. Differences in Pneumocystis isolates recovered fromimmunocompetent infants and from adults with AIDS: epidemiological implications. J Infect Dis 2005; 192:1815–8. 2. Montes-Cano MA, de la Horra C, Martı́n-Juan J, et al. Pneumocystis jiroveci genotypes in the Spanish population. Clin Infect Dis 2004; 39: 123–8. 3. Beard CB, Carter JL, Keely SP, et al. Gene...

The male head-shaped glass pendant discussed in this study was found together with a terracotta statuette, head (or protome), and some knucklebones (astragali) pithos burial during rescue excavations 1993 the Tenedos necropolis. rod-formed has beard, big eyes, long nose, full lips, slightly protruding chin. Trails of opaque yellow, white, turquoise were applied to translucent dark blue body pen...

This paper studies the problem of imposing a known hierarchical structure onto an unstructured spoken document, aiming to help browse such archives. We formulate our solutions within a dynamic-programming-based alignment framework and use minimum errorrate training to combine a number of global and hierarchical constraints. This pragmatic approach is computationally efficient. Results show that...

Writers: John Swarbrooke, Colin Beard, Suzanne Leckie & Gill PomfretPublisher: Butterworth-HeinemannAn imprint of Elsevier Science Linacre House, Jordan Hill, Oxford OX2 8DP 200 Wheeler Road, Burlington MA 01803First published 2003, Copyright © Ltd. All rights reserved