Point Mutation in the Group B Streptococcal pbp2x Gene Conferring Decreased Susceptibility to -Lactam Antibiotics Samira Dahesh,† Mary E. Hensler,† Nina M. Van Sorge, Robert E. Gertz, Jr., Stephanie Schrag, Victor Nizet, and Bernard W. Beall* Division of Pharmacology and Drug Discovery, Department of Pediatrics, and Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of California...

[1] The tropical Pacific sea surface temperature (SST) anomalies such as La Nina have been an important predictor for wildfires in the southeastern and southwestern U.S. This study seeks seasonal predictors for wildfires in the northwestern U.S., a region with the most intense wildfires among various continental U.S. regions. Singular value decomposition and regression techniques are applied to...

∗ Lee Epstein (http://epstein.law.northwestern.edu) is the Beatrice Kuhn Professor of Law and Professor of Political Science at Northwestern University; Andrew D. Martin is Professor of Law and Chair of the Department of Political Science at Washington University; Kevin M. Quinn is Associate Professor of Government at Harvard University; Jeffrey A. Segal is SUNY Distinguished Professor and Chai...

Tatsuhiko SATO, Akira ENDO, Maria ZANKL, Nina PETOUSSI-HENSS, Hiroshi YASUDA and Koji NIITA Japan Atomic Energy Agency, 2-4, Shirakata-Shirane, Tokai, Ibaraki 319-1195, Japan Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health (GmbH), Institute of Radiation Protection, Ingolstaedter Landstraße 1, 85764 Neuherberg, Germany National Institute of Radiological Sciences, 4-9-1...

In the summer of 1946, the international community of cancer researchers was inspired by the announcement that two Soviet scientists, Nina Kliueva and Grigorii Roskin, had discovered anticancer properties in culture extracts made from the South American protozoan, Trypanosoma cruzi, and had produced a preparation – named after its discoverers KR – which showed clear therapeutic effects on cance...

Mary C. Mandni, MD Si M. Pham, MD Richard Norris Pierson Robert S. Poston, Jr., Monica RobotinAndrew J. Sherman, Louisiana State University of III, MD MD Johnson, MD MD University Pittsburgh Vanderbik University Stanford University Hospital Marie Northwestern Medical Center TSFRE Research Medical Center Medical Center Lannelongue University Medical Nina Braun~ald Grant John Alexander TSFRE Rese...

Nina Shulumba, 2 Olle Hellman, 1 Zamaan Raza, Björn Alling, 4 Jenifer Barrirero, 1 Frank Mücklich, Igor A. Abrikosov, 5 and Magnus Odén Department of Physics, Chemistry, and Biology (IFM), Linköping University, SE-581 83, Linköping, Sweden. Functional Materials, Saarland University, Campus D3 3, D-66123 Saarbrücken, Germany. Division of Engineering and Applied Science, California Institute of T...

Since the late 1990s, land surface temperatures over Japan have increased during the summer and autumn, while global mean temperatures have not risen in this duration (i.e., the global warming hiatus). In contrast, winter and spring temperatures in Japan have decreased. To assess the impact of both global warming and global-scale decadal variability on this enhanced seasonal temperature contras...

[1] The probability distribution function (PDF) of the upper (0–50 m) tropical Pacific current speeds (w), constructed from hourly ADCP data (1990–2007) at six stations for the Tropical Atmosphere Ocean project, satisfies the twoparameter Weibull distribution reasonably well with different characteristics between El Nino and La Nina events: In the western Pacific, the PDF of w has a larger peak...

[1] We used the approach of conditional nonlinear optimal perturbation (CNOP) to investigate optimal precursors for El Nino–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) events with a theoretical coupled ocean-atmosphere model. The CNOPs of the annual cycle of the coupled system were computed for different time periods, and the derived CNOPs were compared with the linear singular vectors (LSVs). The results show...