We investigate the mass of the 1−+ exotic meson, created with hybrid interpolating fields. Access to light quark masses approaching 25 MeV is facilitated by the use of the Fat-Link Irrelevant Clover (FLIC) fermion action, and large (203 × 40) lattices. Our results indicate that the 1−+ exotic exhibits significant curvature close to the chiral limit, and yield a 1−+ mass in agreement with the π1...

This study was conducted to determine the effects of acute swim stress on the pain behavior response and c-Fos expression in the rat spinal cord. Male Sprague-Dawley rats weighing 250-300g were divided into four groups consisting of rats subjected to acute swim stress (S), formalin injection (F), acute swim stress with formalin injection (S+F) and control rat (C) (n=6 per groups). Rats were acu...

This study evaluates the reliability of two differently constructed screening instruments for language delay. Only few studies have addressed the question of early identification at population level. Data for this article were drawn from a Finnish cohort study, entitled the Steps to the Healthy Development and Well-Being of Children (the STEPS study, N = 9.936). The MacArthur Communicative Deve...

1 2 Expanded co-circulation of stable subtypes, emerging lineages and new sporadic 3 reassortants of porcine influenza viruses in swine populations in Northwest 4 Germany 5 6 7 8 Running title: Emerging porcine influenza viruses in Germany 9 10 11 12 Timm C. Harder, Elisabeth grosse Beilage, Elke Lange, Carolin Meiners, Stefanie Döhring, 13 Stefan Pesch, Thomas Noé, Christian Grund , Martin Bee...

Benefiting from its high efficiency and simplicity, Simple Linear Iterative Clustering (SLIC) remains one of the most popular over-segmentation tools. However, due to explicit enforcement of spatial similarity for region continuity, the boundary adaptation of SLIC is sub-optimal. It also has drawbacks on convergence rate as a result of both the fixed search region and separately doing the assig...

In this paper, we present an approach for learning a visual representation from the raw spatiotemporal signals in videos. Our representation is learned without supervision from semantic labels. We formulate our method as an unsupervised sequential verification task, i.e., we determine whether a sequence of frames from a video is in the correct temporal order. With this simple task and no semant...

In a network attack investigation, the mountain of information collected from varying sources can be daunting. Investigators face significant challenges in being able to correlate findings from these sources, given difficulties with time synchronization. In addition, it is difficult to obtain summary or overview information for one set of data, much less the entire case. This, in turn, makes it...

Flagellin's potential as a vaccine adjuvant has been increasingly explored over the last three decades. Monomeric flagellin proteins are the only known agonists of Toll-like receptor 5 (TLR5). This interaction evokes a pro-inflammatory state that impacts upon both innate and adaptive immunity. While pathogen associated molecular patterns (PAMPs) like flagellin have been used as stand-alone adju...

Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) include O157:H7 and non-O157 serotypes. The public health impact of STEC infections is high because of their ability to cause severe infections. We characterized our STEC strains isolated from diarrheal and asymptomatic persons in northern and southwest Iran. The 29 STEC strains were examined for the presence of virulence genes by polymerase chain r...

We isolated and characterized spontaneous mutants with defects in the 147-amino-acid Salmonella protein FliJ, which is a cytoplasmic component of the type III flagellar export apparatus. These mutants, including ones with null mutations, have the ability to form swarms on motility agar plates after prolonged incubation at 30 degrees C; i.e., they display a leaky motile phenotype. One mutant, SJ...