Staphylococcal alpha-toxin was purified from Staphylococcus aureus growth medium using adsorption chromatography on controlled pore glass beads. Elution of alpha-toxin from the unmodified glass surface of the beads with various anions generally followed the chaotropic series. Alpha-toxin, purified by glass bead chromatography, is composed of a single electrophoretic form, containing less than 2...

This study focuses on stereotypes about Germany, its culture and people, held by learners of German in a big public university in Malaysia. It examines not only the stereotypical representations of the target language country but also assesses its favourability and salience, which has not been done previously. The findings revealed that the students’ stereotypes about Germany were varied and di...

In order to improve the stability of cost control marine fishery culture, a method controlling culture based on big data analysis algorithm was proposed. We establish model fishery, use correlation conduct distributed mining characteristics deeply grasp relevance characteristics, information fusion build constraint parameter aquaculture operation, limit amount calculation, and adaptive neural n...

objective hyperextension of the big toe is described here as a simple and reliable sign to predict undercorrection of cavus deformity of clubfoot in the ponseti method. materials & methods this retrospective study was conducted on children with clubfoot who were treated successfully by ponseti method in the king fahad hospital, saudi arabia, and emam reza hospital, mashad, iran, from 2003 throu...

Dead leaves of Dasylirion were collected in Texas in Guadalupe Mountains National Park and Big Bend National Park, and in the Valley of Fires, New Mexico. The fungi present were identified and grown in culture to identify teleomorph-anamorph connections. Four new ascomycete species are described-Graphyllium dasylirionis, Splanchnonema dasylirionis, Chaetoplea dasylirionis, and Chaetoplea sotoli...

We investigate in detail the parameter space of active-sterile neutrino oscillations that amplifies neutrino chemical potentials at the epoch of Big Bang Nucleosynthesis. We calculate the magnitude of the amplification and show evidences of chaos in the amplification process. We also discuss the implications of the neutrino chemical potential amplification in the Big Bang Nucleosynthesis. It is...

This paper outlines research and development of a new Hadoop-based architecture for distributed processing and analysis of electron microscopy of brains. We show development of a new C++ library for implementation of 3D image analysis techniques, and deployment in a distributed map/reduce framework. We demonstrate our new framework on a subset of the Kasthuri11 dataset from the Open Connectome ...

Let ${\mathcal A}$ be a generalized $q$-Weyl algebra, it is generated by $u$, $v$, $Z$, $Z^{-1}$ with relations $ZuZ^{-1}=q^2u$, $ZvZ^{-1}=q^{-2}v$, $uv=P\big(q^{-1}Z\big)$, $vu=P(qZ)$, where $P$ Laurent polynomial. A Hermitian form $(\cdot,\cdot)$ on called invariant if $(Za,b)=\big(a,bZ^{-1}\big)$, $(ua,b)=(a,sbv)$, $(va,b)=\big(a,s^{-1}bu\big)$ for some $s\in {\mathbb C}$ $|s|=1$ and all $a,...

Big Data and Big Data Analytics (BD and BDA, respectively) have burst onto the scene in the popular culture in recent years, perhaps most notably in the form of Nate Silver’s high profile predictions in the political and professional sports arenas. According to futurist Tyler Cowen, modern society will soon be reordered, with creators and tenders of incredibly complex datasets and the artificia...

Blue Brain has pushed high-performance visualization (HPV) to complement its HPC strategy since its inception in 2007. In 2011, this strategy has been accelerated to develop innovative visualization solutions through increased funding and strategic partnerships with other research institutions. We present the key elements of this HPV ecosystem, which integrates C++ visualization applications wi...