Sapoviruses (SaVs) are enteric caliciviruses that have been detected in multiple mammalian species, including humans, pigs, mink, dogs, sea lions, chimpanzees, and rats. They show a high level of diversity. A SaV genome commonly encodes seven nonstructural proteins (NSs), including the RNA polymerase protein NS7, and two structural proteins (VP1 and VP2). We classified human and animal SaVs int...

Information on the forms of P present in animal manure may improve our ability to manage manure P. In most investigations of manure P composition, only inorganic and total P are determined, and the difference between them is assigned as organic P. In this study, we explored the possibility of identifying and quantifying more specific organic P forms in animal manure with orthophosphate-releasin...

Dense populations containing 129 x 10(6) Jensen sarcoma, 134 x 10(6) DON Chinese hamster, 28.9 x 10(6) WI-38 human diploid, 61.8 x 10(6) HEp-2 human carcinoma, and 67.4 x 10(6) WISH human amnion cells were produced from dilute inocula, 0.85 to 5.33 x 10(6), in 7 to 8 days in a perfusion system using replicate T-60 flasks. Perfusion rates as high as 560 ml medium/day/T-60 were required to mainta...

More than one hundred volatile organic substances were identified by gas chromatography and mass spectrometry (GC/MS) in the indoor and outdoor air, stable and farm road dust and farm soil samples from two pig and cattle farms in the South Moravian Region. Volatile fatty acids (acetic, propanoic, butanoic and pentanoic acids) and their esters dominated along with aldehydes (butanal, pentanal an...

1 of Metabolic Changes by Hyperpolarized C MR Spectroscopy 2 3 Running Title: 60 characters including spaces: 4 Reperfusion metabolism in a novel intact small animal model 5 6 Hikari A.I. Yoshihara; 1,4,5 Jessica A.M. Bastiaansen; 3,4 Corinne Berthonneche; 7 Arnaud Comment; Juerg Schwitter 1,5 8 9 1. Division of Cardiology, Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV), Lausanne, Switzerland 10 2. Cardio...

An equitable coloring of a graph G is a proper coloring of the vertices of G such that color classes differ in size by at most one. In this note, we verify the equitable coloring conjecture [W. Meyer, Amer. Math. Monthly 80 (1973), 920–922] for some classes of graphs which are defined by forbidden induced subgraphs using known results.

A graph G on n vertices is pancyclic if G contains cycles of all lengths`for 3 ` n and G is cycle extendable if for every nonhamiltonian cycle C G there is a cycle C 0 G such that V (C) V (C 0) and jV (C 0) n V (C)j = 1. We prove that (i) every 2-connected K 1;3-free graph is pancyclic, if G is P 5-free and n 6, if G is P 6-free and n 10, or if G is P 7-free, deer-free and n 14, and (ii) every ...

A set A of vertices of a graph G is called d-scattered in G if no two d-neighborhoods of (distinct) vertices of A intersect. In other words, A is d-scattered if no two distinct vertices of A have distance at most 2d. This notion was isolated in the context of finite model theory by Gurevich and recently it played a prominent role in the study of homomorphism preservation theorems for special cl...

In this paper we propose a structural characterization for a class of bipartite graphs defined by two forbidden induced subgraphs. We show that the obtained characterization leads to polynomial-time algorithms for several problems that are NP-hard in general bipartite graphs.

An antimatroid is an accessible union-closed family of subsets of a 0nite set. A number of classes of antimatroids are closed under taking minors such as point-search antimatroids of rooted (di)graphs, line-search antimatroids of rooted (di)graphs, shelling antimatroids of rooted trees, shelling antimatroids of posets, etc. The forbidden minor characterizations are known for point-search antima...