Silicibacter sp. strain TM1040, a member of the Roseobacter clade, forms a symbiosis with unicellular phytoplankton, which is inextricably linked to the biphasic "swim or stick" lifestyle of the bacteria. Mutations in flaC bias the population toward the motile phase. Renewed examination of the FlaC(-) strain (HG1016) uncovered that it is composed of two different cells: a pigmented type, PS01, ...

Shallow foundations in granular soils are designed such that the settlements are within tolerable limits. Schmertmann’s (1970) method is one of the most rational methods for computing settlements of footings in granular soils, and is commonly used world-wide. The method relies on a strain influence factor that varies with depth. Schmertmann et al. (1978) proposed separate strain influence facto...

Flagella-driven motility enables bacteria to reach their favorable niche within the host. The human foodborne pathogen Campylobacter jejuni produces two heavily glycosylated structural flagellins (FlaA and FlaB) that form the flagellar filament. It also encodes the non-structural FlaC flagellin which is secreted through the flagellum and has been implicated in host cell invasion. The mechanisms...

Underground energy storage is an important function of all supply systems, and especially concerning the seemingly eternal imbalance between production demand. Salt rock underground storage, for one, widely applied in both traditional renewable fields; this particular technique can be used to store natural gas, hydrogen, compressed air. However, resource diversification structural complexity ma...

A low-clearance tunnel portal in the shallow-buried, joint-developed, broken, and loose surrounding rock slope deposit may cause safety issues during construction. In this study, Guanyin Mountain Tunnel of Chong-Ai expressway was taken as a case characteristics broken rocks, their low clearance, shallow buried bias were comprehensively studied. The three-dimensional numerical model section cons...

Cumulative thrombocytopenia is a dose-limiting toxicity of dose-intensive chemotherapy for advanced breast cancer. In this phase I study, we have studied the hematologic toxicity associated with sequential interleukin-3 (IL-3) and granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF; molgramostim) administration after multiple cycles of FLAC (5-fluorouracil, leucovorin, doxorubicin, cycloph...

Audio compression is used everywhere – largely due to the rise of the internet, computers, and embedded systems. Since original, uncompressed digital recordings are very large in size, efficient ways are needed to compress large audio signals into small, high-quality, convenient formats. While lossy audio formats, like MP3, are widely popular in many everyday applications, lossless formats are ...

In this study, we investigate the effects of CO2 laser polishing on microscopic structures fabricated by femtosecond laser assisted carving (FLAC). FLAC is the peripheral laser irradiation of 2.5D structures suitable for low repetition rate lasers and is first used to define the microwell structures in fused silica followed by chemical etching. Subsequently, the bottom surface of patterned micr...