An exfoliative toxin produced by Staphylococcus aureus is the causative agent of staphylococcal scalded-skin syndrome (SSSS) in young children. Recently, we reported that only few isolates of S. aureus from bovine mastitis contained the eta gene encoding exfoliative toxin A (ETA) and produced ETA in vitro. In this study, we isolated temperate phages from two ETA-positive bovine isolates of S. a...

suppose $g$ is a finite group, $a$ and $b$ are conjugacy classes of $g$ and $eta(ab)$ denotes the number of conjugacy classes contained in $ab$. the set of all $eta(ab)$ such that $a, b$ run over conjugacy classes of $g$ is denoted by $eta(g)$.the aim of this paper is to compute $eta(g)$, $g in { d_{2n}, t_{4n}, u_{6n}, v_{8n}, sd_{8n}}$ or $g$ is a decomposable group of order $2pq$, a group of...

Monometallic complexes of the tetrakis(pyrazolyl)borate ligand [ML(2){B(pz)(4)}] {M = Rh, Ir; L(2) = eta-cod, eta-nbd, (CO)(2), (CO)(PPh(3))} have two free pyrazolyl rings which can be coordinated to a second ML(2) unit to give the dimeric compounds [L(2)M{mu-B(pz)(4)}ML(2)](+), and to a metal halide to give heterobimetallic species [L(2)M{mu-B(pz)(4)}M'Cl(2)]. (1)H NMR spectroscopy shows that ...

A bipartite monoid is a commutative monoid Q together with an identified subset P ⊂ Q. In this paper we study a class of bipartite monoids, known as misère quotients, that are naturally associated to impartial combinatorial games. We introduce a structure theory for misère quotients with |P| = 2, and give a complete classification of all such quotients up to isomorphism. One consequence is that...

We consider various ways to represent irrational numbers by subrecursive functions: via Cauchy sequences, Dedekind cuts, trace functions, several variants of sum approximations and continued fractions. Let S be a class of subrecursive functions. The set of irrational numbers that can be obtained with functions from S depends on the representation. We compare the sets obtained by the different r...

We use the calculus of adiabatic pseudo-differential operators to study the adiabatic limit behavior of the eta and zeta functions of a differential operator δ constructed from an elliptic family of operators with base S. We show that the regularized values η(δt, 0) and tζ(δt, 0) have smooth limits as t → 0, and we identify the limits with the holonomy of the determinant bundle, respectively wi...

We announce misère-play solutions to several previously-unsolved combinatorial games. The solutions are described in terms of misère quotients—commutative monoids that encode the additive structure of specific misère-play games. We also introduce several advances in the structure theory of misère quotients, including a connection between the combinatorial structure of normal and misère play.