Recent results strongly challenge the canonical picture of massive star winds: various evidence indicates that currently accepted mass-loss rates, Ṁ, may need to be revised downwards, by factors extending to one magnitude or even more. This is because the most commonly used mass-loss diagnostics are affected by “clumping” (small-scale density inhomogeneities), influencing our interpretation of ...

We report a case of a patient who experienced a catheter-related bloodstream infection caused by Staphylococcus condimenti, which was first isolated from soy sauce mash. This is the first reported case of human infection. Although blood culture isolates and the catheter tip tube did not reveal coagulase or clumping factor, false-positive results were obtained from latex agglutination tests for ...

ABSTRACT Small-scale density fluctuations can significantly affect reionization, but are typically modelled quite crudely. Unresolved in numerical simulations and analytical calculations included using a gas clumping factor, assumed to be independent of the local environment. In Paper I, we presented an improved, density-dependent model for sub-grid clumping. Here, extend this empirical stochas...

spatial patterns are useful descriptors of the horizontal structure in a plant population and may change over time as the individual components of the population grow or die out. but, whether this is the case for desert woody annuals is largely unknown. in the present investigation, the variations in spatial patterns of tribulus terrestris during different pulse events in semi-arid area of the ...

The staphylococcal adhesin clumping factor A (ClfA) has a variant amino acid sequence, generating the potential for alterations in epitope structure and immunogenicity of this vaccine candidate. We demonstrated for two recombinant ClfA(40-531) (a slightly truncated version of the fibrinogen-binding domain of ClfA containing amino acids 40 to 531) genetic variants that strain-specific epitopes a...