Persistence of tissue spirochetes of Borrelia burgdorferi as helices and round bodies (RBs) explains many erythema-Lyme disease symptoms. Spirochete RBs (reproductive propagules also called coccoid bodies, globular bodies, spherical bodies, granules, cysts, L-forms, sphaeroplasts, or vesicles) are induced by environmental conditions unfavorable for growth. Viable, they grow, move and reversibly...

The first step in programming and controlling cell behavior is to establish a library of well-defined components, a.k.a. "biobricks", that serve as the building blocks of artificial gene networks. The main challenge in genetic circuit design lies in selecting well-matched genetic components that when coupled, reliably and consistently act in a desired behavior. Although the parameter values are...

Thin solid lubricating coatings of Pb-Mo-S were deposited on steel substrates via ion-beam deposition. Coating endurance and friction coefficients under dry air sliding conditions were monitored with ball-on-disk tests; additional tribological testing was performed using a ball-on-flat reciprocating test rig to investigate intermediate sliding distances (100-32000 cycles). Rutherford backscatte...

In this paper, utilization of clustering algorithms for data fusion in decision level is proposed. The results of automatic isolated word recognition, which are derived from speech spectrograph and Linear Predictive Coding (LPC) analysis, are combined with each other by using fuzzy clustering algorithms, especially fuzzy k-means and fuzzy vector quantization. Experimental results show that the ...

Cohesion between sister chromatids is essential for faithful chromosome segregation. In budding yeast, the acetyltransferase Eco1/Ctf7 establishes cohesion during DNA replication in S phase and in response to DNA double strand breaks in G2/M phase. In humans two Eco1 orthologs exist: ESCO1 and ESCO2. Both proteins are required for proper sister chromatid cohesion, but their exact function is un...

The ZnO semiconductor is probably among the most mentioned compounds in scientific literature during last decade, which mainly due to its wide spectrum of applications. Compounds based on (in doped or composite form) are great relevance for development high-tech devices. In this work, we present growth and characterization samples deposited by DC Magnetron co-sputtering from two pure Zn Ag targ...

W-doped monoclinic vanadium dioxide VO2(M) thin films with various W contents were successfully deposited by magnetron sputtering method. As-deposited consisted of multilayers composed VO2/W bilayers. Further annealing at 500 °C under Argon for 1 h led to crystallized and homogeneous V1-xWxO2±δ films. 200 nm characterized room temperature Rutherford backscattering spectrometry (RBS), X-ray diff...