Dental caries is a biofilm-dependent disease that largely relies on the ability of Streptococcus mutans to synthesize exopolysaccharides. Although the rnc gene is suggested to be involved in virulence mechanisms in many other bacteria, the information regarding it in S. mutans is very limited. Here, using deletion or overexpression mutant assay, we demonstrated that rnc in S. mutans significant...

We present a re-conceptualization and re-engineering of the non-SWSL portion of the Derivation Rules subfamily of RuleML in the Relax NG Compact (RNC) schema syntax. The benefits arising from RNC schemas include decreased positional sensitivity and greater flexibility in modularization (from fine-grained modular to monolithic), as well as unification of human-readable (“Content Models”) and mac...

The red nucleus (RN) is involved in motor control and it is known to have potential to compensate for injury of the corticospinal tract (CST). We investigated the change of connectivity of the RN (RNc) and its relation to motor function in patients with striatocapsular hemorrhage. Thirty-five chronic patients with striatocapsular hemorrhage were recruited. Motricity Index (MI), Modified Brunnst...

Using insertional mutagenesis, we have disrupted the RNase III gene, rnc, of the actinomycin-producing streptomycete, Streptomyces antibioticus. Disruption was verified by Southern blotting. The resulting strain grows more vigorously than its parent on actinomycin production medium but produces significantly lower levels of actinomycin. Complementation of the rnc disruption with the wild-type r...

A seismic isolated structure is usually a long-period structural system, which may encounter a lowfrequency resonance problem when subjected to a near-fault earthquake that usually has a long-period pulse-like waveform. This long-period wave component may result in an enlargement of the base displacement and a decrease of the isolation efficiency. To overcome this problem, a rolling-based seism...

'Wando ' pea is susceptible to Ditylenchus dipsaci f rom Raleigh, N. C. (RNC) but resistant to the same species from Waynesville, N. C. (WNC) . Homogenates of RNC and WNC were analyzed for pectolytic and cellulolytic enzyme activity; both had high Cx activity with W N C two to three times more active than RNC. Polymethylglacturonase activity was three to five times higher in RNC, but polygalact...

STUDY OBJECTIVE To determine whether a reservoir nasal cannula (RNC) (Oxymizer) provides an arterial hemoglobin oxygen saturation as measured by pulse oximetry (SpO2) equivalent to that provided by the standard nasal cannula (SNC) during sleep in hypoxemic patients with COPD while reducing oxygen flow requirement and cost. DESIGN The study took place in a sleep laboratory for three nights, wi...

The metabolism of mRNA from the lactose (lac) operon of Escherichia coli has been studied in ribonuclease (RNase) III-deficient strains (rnc-105). The induction lag for beta-galactosidase from the first gene was twice as long, and enzyme synthesis was reduced 10-fold in one such mutant compared with its isogenic rnc+ sister; in the original mutant strain AB301-105, synthesis of beta-galactosida...

This paper reports a new approach applied to convolutional neural networks (CNNs), which uses spatial transformer networks (STNs). It consists in training an architecture which combines a localization CNN and a classification CNN, for which most of the weights are tied, which from here on we will name Tied Spatial Transformer Networks (TSTNs). The localization CNN is used for predicting the bes...