1 Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, 2 Department of Microbiology & Immunology, University of Texas Medical Branch, 301 University Boulevard, Galveston, TX 77555-1079, USA, 3 Institute of Biochemistry, Faculty of Biology and Chemistry, Justus-LiebigUniversity, Heinrich-Buff-Ring 58, 35392 Giessen, Germany, 4 Department of Pharmacology and Chemical Biology, University of Pittsburgh ...

This study evaluates atmospheric concentrations of soil and Pb aerosols, and blood lead levels (BLLs) in 367839 children (ages 0-10) in Detroit, Michigan from 2001 to 2009 to test a hypothesized soil → air dust → child pathway of contemporary Pb risk. Atmospheric soil and Pb show near-identical seasonal properties that match seasonal variation in children's BLLs. Resuspended soil appears to be ...

Even though birds are some of the most common road-killed animals, it remains to be determined whether avian roadkills related breeding numbers and success, mainly due a lack study areas that monitor populations roadkills. We studied barn owl success monitored yearly (2174 attempts 1682 adults ringed) (9380 nestlings 95 km roads weekly for from 2009 2017 in Beit Shean Emek Yizreel Valleys, Isra...

It is shown that assembling molecules in the ATOMIX game can be used to simulate 0nite automata. In particular, an instance of ATOMIX is constructed that has a solution if and only if the non-emptiness intersection problem for 0nite automata is solvable. This shows that the game under consideration is PSPACE-complete, improving a recent result of H5 u6ner et al. (Lecture Notes in Computer Scien...

Staphylococcus hominis is a predominant member of the human skin microbiome. We here report on the genomic analysis of Staphylococcus hominis strain Hudgins that was isolated from the wrist area of human skin. The partial genome assembly of S. hominis Hudgins consists of 2,211,863 bp of DNA with 2174 protein-coding genes and 90 RNA genes. Based on the genomic analysis of KEGG pathways, the orga...

High performance rechargeable batteries are urgently demanded for future energy storage systems. Here, we adopted a lithium-carbon battery configuration. Instead of using carbon materials as the surface provider for lithium-ion adsorption and desorption, we realized induced fluorination of carbon nanotube array (CNTA) paper cathodes, with the source of fluoride ions from electrolytes, by an in-...