Light-scattering intensities in the I11 and I+ mode were obtained on thin sections of three human lenses. Random density and orientation fluctuation theory, without cross correlation, was employed to evaluate light-scattering parameters. Both the density correlation distances, as well as the orientation correlation distances, were related to structural elements in the lens fiber cell that have ...

Two corynefonn organisms (A 1082 and A 1062) isolated from the skin mucus of Arctic cod, are described in detail. Strain A1032 may be a new species; strain A 1062 is a strain of Corynebacterium erythrogenes. Three carotenoid pigments, all with very similar absorption spectra, were found in both strains. Two of these pigments were identified as neoxanthin and sarcinaxanthin. "he third pigment ha...

A new synchrotron X-ray powder diffraction instrument has been built and commissioned for long-duration experiments on beamline I11 at Diamond Light Source. The concept is unique, with design features to house multiple experiments running in parallel, in particular with specific stages for sample environments to study slow kinetic systems or processes. The instrument benefits from a high-bright...

We study the impact of regulation on competition between brand-names and generics and pharmaceutical expenditures using a unique policy experiment in Norway, where reference pricing (RP) replaced price cap regulation in 2003 for a sub-sample of off-patent products. First, we construct a vertical differentiation model to analyze the impact of regulation on prices and market shares of brand-names...

In this report, a control system called CICC has be presented for vehicle-followig and collision-avoidance. This system contains several sub-systems, such as cruise control and distancing control, each of which has also been described. While each sub-system is designed to maintain the system stability, CICC achieves good comfort as well as sufficient capacity of avoiding collisions. The perform...


 OBJECTIVES: The iobjective iof ithe istudy iwas ito iestimate iprevalence postpartum idepression iand iits iassociated irisk ifactors iamong imothers.
 METHODOLOGY: This icross-sectional icarried iout iin iDepartment of iObstetrics i& iGynecology,iand iPsychiatry, iKhyber Teaching Hospital iPeshawar 1st April 2018 till 31st March 2019. iA itotal i750 ipost-natal imothers iwere i...

The secure mlllti-party compnt.ation (ShIC) illode1 provitles ineails for l~alailciilg the use and confidentiality of distribut.ed data. Iilcreasiilg security coilcerils 11al.e led to a surge in work oil practical secure 1nult.i-party coinputatioil protocols. However. inost are only proveil secure under the semi-hoilest model, and security under this adversary illode1 is iils~~fici~iit for illo...

The enzyme acetohydroxy acid synthase (AHS), which catalyses the first common step in the biosynthesis of isoleucine, leucine and valine, has been demonstrated to be present in Spirufinupfutensis in two isoenzymic forms. The complete nucleotide sequences of the genes ifuX and ifu W encoding these two enzymes have been determined. Sequence analysis revealed the presence of two open reading frame...