Oblique subduction at a high rate of convergence along much of the Middle America Trench results in northwest-directed trench-parallel block motion. Accommodation of this motion along northwest-striking dextral strike-slip faults has been postulated; however, in Nicaragua such faults are not well developed. We suggest instead that this motion is accommodated by bookshelf faulting that includes ...

Hydraulic fracturing, natural fracture reactivation and resulting induced microseismicity are interconnected phenomena involved in shale gas exploitation. Due to their multi-physics and their complexity, deep understanding of these phenomena as well as their mutual interaction require the adoption of coupled mechanical and fluid flow approaches. Modeling these systems is a challenging procedure...

glucose 6-phosphate dehydrogenase (g6pd) from streptomyces aureofaciens was purified and denatured in 6 m urea. denaturation led to complete dissociation of the enzyme into its inactive monomers, 98% loss of the enzyme activity, about 30% decrease in the protein fluorescence and a 10 nm red shift in the emission maximum. dilution of urea-denatured enzyme resulted in regaining of the enzyme acti...

In many countries with low to moderate tuberculosis (TB) incidence, cases have shifted to elderly persons. It is unclear, however, whether these cases are associated with recent Mycobacterium tuberculosis transmission or represent reactivation of past disease. During 2009-2015, we performed a population-based TB investigation in Yamagata Prefecture, Japan, using in-depth contact tracing and 24-...

Memory reactivation, the activation of a latent memory trace when we are reminded of a past experience, strengthens memory but can also contribute to distortions if new information present during reactivation is integrated with existing memory. In a previous study in young adults we found that the quality of memory reactivation, manipulated using the principle of encoding specificity and indexe...

So far, studies that investigated interference effects of post-learning processes on episodic memory consolidation in humans have used tasks involving only complex and meaningful information. Such tasks require reallocation of general or encoding-specific resources away from consolidation-relevant activities. The possibility that interference can be elicited using a task that heavily taxes our ...

results it was found that the positive hepatitis b surface antigen (hbsag), the high baseline hbv dna level, the positive hepatitis b virus e antigen (hbeag), and an absent or low hepatitis b surface antibody (hbsab) titer prior to starting treatment are the most important viral risk factors. furthermore, rituximab, anthracycline, and different types of tnf-α inhibitors were identified as the h...

Optical televiewer borehole logging within a crevassed region of fast-moving Store Glacier, Greenland, revealed the presence 35 high-angle planes that cut across background primary stratification. These were composed bubble-free layer refrozen ice, most which hosted thin laminae bubble-rich “last frozen” consistent with being traces former open crevasses. Several such last-frozen observed in fo...

Bell’s palsy is an idiopathic peripheral nerve palsy involving the facial nerve. It accounts for 60 to 75% of all cases of unilateral facial paralysis. The main mechanisms to induce BP remain unclear, but infection, ischemic condition and immunodeficiency may contribute to the development of Bell’s palsy. Accumulating evidence has shown several factors can trigger the reactivation of latent...