0022-1694/$ see front matter Published by Elsevier doi:10.1016/j.jhydrol.2009.12.041 * Corresponding author. Present address: Ecosys Environmental Protection Agency, 960 College Station United States. Tel.: +1 706 355 8338; fax: +1 706 355 E-mail addresses: [email protected] (K. Price (C.R. Jackson), [email protected] (A.J. Parker). A full understanding of hydrologic response to human impact r...

Session Information for Program Number 450C Print Close window Abstract Content Program Nr: Mutations that Cause Food-Deprived Behavior in Well-Fed Animals. , Bob Horvitz. HHMI, Dept. Biology, MIT, Cambridge, MA. Acute food deprivation causes N2 animals to modulate their locomotion differently than well-fed animals upon entering a bacterial lawn . Acutely food-deprived animals exhibit a seroton...

Whilst numerous investigations have explored the physical demands placed upon competitive sportspeople from a wide array of sports little is known about the physical demands placed on lawn bowlers. The purpose of this study was to ascertain the movement activities of Australian representative singles and pairs players and to determine the frequency and duration of these activities. One match ea...

A combinatorial library of 15,536 cyclic decapeptide analogues of tyrocidine A and gramicidin S was prepared on photocleavable TentaGel beads. The beads were photolyzed without solvent, and spread onto an agar plate inoculated with bacterial lawn. Clear zones were formed around beads carrying antimicrobially active peptides such as E18 c(kVOrnLfThiYOrnLq), which inhibited growth of B. subtilis ...

Current surgical robotic systems in orthopaedics lack realistic pre-operative simulations and utilize invasive methods to register bone intra-operatively. A multidisciplinary group of researchers is addressing these de ciencies in the context of robotic cementless hip replacement surgery. In this paper we outline our current research progress and a road-map for the short-term future of our rese...

A key challenge in designing robot teams is determining how to allocate team members to specific roles according to their abilities and the demands of the environment. In this paper we explore this issue in the context of multi-robot foraging, and we show that optimal foraging theory can be used to evaluate our work in learned multi-robot foraging tasks. We present a means by which members of a...

Genetic analysis of host-pathogen interactions has been hampered by the lack of genetically tractable models of such interactions. We showed previously that the human opportunistic pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa kills Caenorhabditis elegans, that P. aeruginosa and C. elegans genes can be identified that affect this killing, and that most of these P. aeruginosa genes are also important for mamm...

BACKGROUND In the summer of 2000, an outbreak of primary pneumonic tularemia occurred on Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts. The only previously reported outbreak of pneumonic tularemia in the United States also occurred on the island in 1978. METHODS We conducted a case-control study of adults with pneumonic tularemia and investigated the environment to identify risk factors for primary pneumo...