a Department of Sociology and Social Science Research Center, Mississippi State University, PO Box C, Mississippi State, MS 39762, USA b Social Science Research Center, Mississippi State University, PO Box 5287, Mississippi State, MS 39762, USA c Department of Civil and Building Engineering, Loughborough University, Leicestershire LE11 3TU, United Kingdom d Department of Sociology, Mississippi ...

Spin is the only internal degree of freedom of an electron, and that raises two interesting, closely related questions. First, what kind of new physics emerges when the processes traditionally attributed separately to electron charge and electron spin become closely interconnected? And second, to what sort of new electronic devices might this physics lead us? Success in applications has the pot...

Superinfection immunity is found in the conjugal transfer of R factors between two fi(+) R factors and between two fi(-) R factors (fi = fertility inhibition), as we reported previously. In contrast, no reduction in the frequencies of transduction of an fi(+) R factor 222 was caused by the presence of fi(+) R factors in the recipients in transduction systems with phage P1kc in Escherichia coli ...

BACKGROUND Uncomplicated frailty instruments are desirable for use in a busy clinical setting. The aim of this study was to operationalize a frailty index (FI) from routine blood and urine tests, and to evaluate the properties of this FI compared to other frailty instruments. MATERIALS AND METHODS We conducted a secondary analysis of a prospective cohort study on 306 patients aged ≥65 years h...

background: apical leakage assessment is a way to compare the effi ciency of a fi lling material to seal the apical region of the tooth. many microleakage testing techniques have been introduced through the years, but there has been no agreement as to which technique gives the most accurate results. the aim of this study was to compare the accuracy of fl uid fi ltration and bacterial leakage te...

Deforestation in Myanmar has recently attracted much attention worldwide. This study examined spatio-temporal patterns of deforestation and forest carbon flux in Myanmar from 2001 to 2010 and environmental impacts at the regional scale using land products of the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS). The results suggest that the total deforestation area in Myanmar was 21,178.8 k...