45 microbial cultures have been isolated from a chemically polluted region, using dimethylterephthalate (DMT) as a sole carbon and energy source. They have been subjected to adaptive selection in order to increase their biodegradative potential. The gradual increase of the xenobiotic substrate concentration from 2.5 to 25 mM induced adaptive changes in the tested strains. 20% of the studied str...

Essential roles for both the 23-O-mycinosyl and 4''-O-acyl moieties of 4''-O-acyltylosin derivatives in the expression of antimicrobial activity against multiple macrolide-resistant strains of Staphylococci and mycoplasmas were demonstrated by in vitro comparison of the MICs of erythromycin, josamycin, tylosin and its 3- and 4''-O-acyl derivatives, demycinosyltylosin (DMT) and its 3- and 4''-O-...

This paper presents the development of the physical layer for a Power Line Communications (PLC) system based on Discrete Multi-Tone (DMT) modulation. Simulation is migrated towards a real system by means of emulation. An introduction is given, followed by an overview of the proposed system. The methodology adopted is then discussed and a more detailed explanation of DMT is presented. Some simul...

We present a case of a 41-year-old woman who carried the misdiagnosis of multiple sclerosis for 13 years while on disease modifying therapy [DMT]. Her neurologic work-up showed an extremely rare type of bilateral middle cerebral arteryocclusive disease, a basilar apex aneurysm and paroxysmal atrial fibrillation. A thorough search for alternative neurologic diagnosis is recommended before patien...

The Douglas Mawson Telescope (DMT) is a proposed 2 m telescope to be situated on the Antarctic plateau. The proposal comes from Australia, and invites participation by other nations, especially those already active in Antarctic astronomy; such as Italy, France and the United States. The DMT will be equipped with instrumentation to perform wide-field imaging from the near to far infrared. Result...

Objective To assess clinical characteristics, distribution of disease-modifying treatments (DMTs), and neuropsychological symptoms in a large cohort of patients with early-stage MS. Methods The German National MS Cohort is a multicenter prospective longitudinal cohort study that has recruited DMT-naive patients with clinically isolated syndrome (CIS) and relapsing-remitting MS (RRMS) since 20...

Separate pathways for transport of nontransferrin ferric and ferrous iron into tissue cultured cells were demonstrated. Neither the ferric nor ferrous pathway was shared with either zinc or copper. Manganese shared the ferrous pathway but had no effect on cellular uptake of ferric iron. We postulate that ferric iron was transported into cells via beta(3)-integrin and mobilferrin (IMP), whereas ...

To evaluate the influence of dance movement therapy (DMT) on the perception of well-being and functional capacity inwomenwith chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS). Previous studies have analysed the effects of DMT in fibromyalgia but not specifically in CFS. Sevenwomen diagnosedwith CFS attended a 4-month DMTprogram.All of themperformedamaximal physical test before and after theDMT intervention. Thei...

A complexity analysis of discrete multitone (DMT) and single-carrier modulation (SCM) in the context of a very high-speed digital subscriber line (VDSL) is presented in this paper. In addition to the traditional arithmetic complexity measures such as the number of multiply-and-accumulate (MAC) operations, we also compute the memory requirements. Furthermore, we normalize these metrics with resp...

In recent history there has been an enormous development in the subject area of Power Line Communications (PLC), since it has become possible due to advanced digital communications and digital signal processing techniques to use power lines for data transmission. PLC allows the use of the dynamic and far-reaching power cables to support high speed communication capabilities. Discrete Multi-tone...