Synthetic enterobactin and enantioenterobactin (D-seryl enterobactin) have been examined for the ability to transport iron in Escherichia coli. Failure of the unnatural, D-serine-derived material to support growth of E. coli mutants indicates outer membrane receptor specificity for the naturally occurring complex having an L-seryl backbone and the delta-cis configuration of the Fe(III).catechol...

Abstract. The Community Radiative Transfer Model (CRTM), a sensor-based radiative transfer model, has been used within the Gridpoint Statistical Interpolation (GSI) system for directly assimilating radiances from infrared and microwave sensors. We conducted numerical experiments to illustrate how including aerosol effects in CRTM calculations changes GSI analysis. Compared default aerosol-blind...

Bioretention areas are a common form of green stormwater infrastructure (GSI). There is significant research on the performance individual bioretention cells, but watershed-scale benefits GSI still unclear. Furthermore, differences in design and rainfall patterns make it difficult to compare results between studies. We used Storm Water Management Model (SWMM) assess effects size, soil infiltrat...

We present the results of a large-scale experimental campaign performed on prototype structure EuroProteas in Thessaloniki, Greece, to assess effectiveness gravel-rubber mixture (GRM) layers underneath shallow foundations as means geotechnical seismic isolation (GSI). found that GSI structures is optimized by increasing rubber content soil-rubber up 30% per weight. The systems has been investig...

AliEn [1] is a lightweight GRID framework based on Perl, started by the ALICE offline Project at CERN. It constitutes the production environment for simulation, reconstruction and analysis of physics data of the ALICE Experiment. This middleware has been deployed by the experiments PANDA and CBM. As part of the facility, they will run their central services at GSI-FAIR. AliEn was originally dev...

At GSI, Darmstadt, an extended series of measurements on nuclear-reaction products has been performed. The work is based on an innovative experimental approach, which exploits the unique installations of GSI: The accelerator complex provides heavy-ion beams at relativistic energies, while a high-resolution magnetic spectrometer is used to identify the reaction products in-flight and to determin...

Gunshot injuries (GSI) of the cranial area have an extremely high mortality rate. Herein, we present a girl who has been living with a bullet in the posterior sellar region. A 6-year-old girl was admitted with complaints of headache, polyuria and polydypsia, which started after a GSI. At the time of admission the patient's anthropometric, physical and neurological examinations were normal. Urin...

Neutrino signals in electron-capture decays of hydrogen-like parent ions P in storage-ring experiments at GSI are reconsidered, with special emphasis placed on the storage-ring quasi-circular motion of the daughter ions D in two-body decays P → D + νe. It is argued that, to the extent that daughter ions are detected, these detection rates might exhibit modulations with periods of order seconds,...

In the GSI therapy pilot project from 1997 until 2008 about 440 cancer patients were successfully treated with carbon ions. Due to the promising healing rates the clinical radiotherapy facility HIT was launched and opened in 2009. Nevertheless, research and improvements of heavyion therapy are still in progress at GSI. For patient treatment planning the software TRiP [1, 2] is used. An essentia...

The software TRiP98 [1] is successfully used at GSI for treatment planning of stationary tumors. It is capable to calculate the absorbed dose and the biologically effective dose resulting from the superposition of usually several thousand C-12 pencil beams. Treatment is delivered with the raster scanner system [2]. If the target is subject to respiratory motion, treatment is not yet possible be...