Graduate students and post-docs often ask “What do I need to do to succeed?” One popular answer is to boost your career by networking feverishly, finding powerful mentors, learning to pinpoint hot areas, and publishing in sexy journals. This approach has two problems: it makes succeeding in biology sound like learning to sell used cars, and it relies heavily on prognostication, a skill that eve...

Objective The aim of this investigation was to evaluate defence mechanisms and attachment styles in paranoid ideation through a cross-sectional design with sequential recruitment of subjects. Methods Five hundred and fifty non-clinical subjects were recruited from university students. A psychometric protocol comprising paranoid ideation scale of Symptoms Check List (SCL-90-R-Par) to identify ...

Streptococcus suis, an important zoonotic pathogen, is known to have an open pan-genome and to develop a competent state. In S. suis, limited genetic lineages are suggested to be associated with zoonosis. However, little is known about the evolution of diversified lineages and their respective phenotypic or ecological characteristics. In this study, we performed comparative genome analyses of S...

Motivated by the recent investigations on instabilities caused by Schwoebel barriers during growth and their effects on growth or sublimation by step flows, we have investigated, using the Stillinger-Weber potential, how this step edge barrier arises for the two high symmetry steps on 1×1 reconstructed Si(111). Relative to a barrier of 0.97 ± 0.07 eV on the surface, we find additional (Schwoebe...

Twenty years ago two different polymorphs of carbonic acid, α- and β-H2CO3, were isolated as thin, crystalline films. They were characterized by infrared and, of late, by Raman spectroscopy. Determination of the crystal structure of these two polymorphs, using cryopowder and thin film X-ray diffraction techniques, has failed so far. Recently, we succeeded in sublimating α-H2CO3 and trapping the...

Snow sublimation is an important hydrological process and one of the main causes of the temporal and spatial variation of snow distribution. Compared with surface sublimation, drifting snow sublimation is more effective due to the greater surface exposure area of snow particles in the air. Previous studies of drifting snow sublimation have focused on suspended snow, and few have considered salt...