1Laboratory of Microbial Ecology and Technology (LabMET), University of Ghent, 9000 Ghent, Belgium 2Department of Civil, Chemical, Environmental and Materials Engineering (DICAM), University of Bologna, 40131 Bologna, Italy 3Department of Chemistry, UCBIO-Requimte, Faculty of Science&Technology, NewUniversity of Lisbon, 2829-516 Caparica, Portugal 4Laboratory of Biochemical Engineering and Envi...

Introduction Previous research has suggested that stalkers who are ex-partners are more likely to be violent towards their victims than acquaintance or stranger stalkers. A survey was conducted in Britain of 95 individuals who had contacted the Suzy Lamplugh Trust because they were being stalked. Method Eighty-seven of the victims were female and seven were male. They were put into three catego...

As well highlighted and stressed by the two editors (Ludwig Eichinger, Center for Biochemistry, Medical Faculty, University of Cologne, Köln, Germany and Francisco Rivero, Center for Cardiovascular and Metabolic research, the Hull York Medical School, University of Hull, UK), Dictyostelium discoideum is an acclaimed member of the socalled model organisms (especially for cell and developmental b...

Background and Purpose. The recovery of walking after a stroke is a key functional goal for many patients. Reports vary, but approximately 50–80% of patients will regain some degree of walking ability following stroke (Skilbeck et al., 1983). There are few data available to show whether different subclassifications of stroke have distinct patterns of gait recovery. The present paper describes t...

Among the historical collection gathered by the 'Comisión Científica del Pacífico' during 1862-1865, type material was found of one of the species described on the basis of the material collected shortly afterwards. Inspection of the types revealed that only one specimen may be considered as type material of Bulimusaristaceus Crosse, 1869; this specimen is now designated as the lectotype. The o...

Although Mycoplasma haemofelis and "Candidatus Mycoplasma haemominutum" infections have been reported in wild cats from United States, their presence among native and captive wild cats in Brazil is still unknown. A 12 year old healthy male lion (Panthera leo) from the Zoological Garden of Curitiba, Brazil was anesthetized for transportation and dental evaluation. A blood sample was obtained for...

BACKGROUND & AIMS Hereditary diffuse gastric cancer (HDGC) families carry CDH1 heterozygous germline mutations; their tumors acquire complete CDH1 inactivation through "2nd-hit" mechanisms. Most frequently, this occurs via promoter hypermethylation (epigenetic modification), and less frequently via CDH1 mutations and loss of heterozygosity (LOH). We quantified the different 2nd hits in CDH1 occ...

PURPOSE Speech-language pathologists (SLPs) use phonological awareness assessments in many ways. This study examines the usefulness of these assessments in kindergarten and 2nd grade. METHOD Measures of phonological awareness and letter identification were administered in kindergarten, and measures of phonological awareness, phonetic decoding (i.e., nonword reading), and word reading were adm...

The detectability of a Gabor patch is improved by the presence of collinear flanking Gabors, this phenomenon is termed collinear facilitation. In experiment 1, we investigate the effects of adding 2D spatial luminance noise as a means of investigating different transects through the suprathreshold contrast space to see whether facilitation is ubiquitous throughout the contrast domain or whether...

Using a con guration-space approach, this paper develops a novel 2nd order mobility theory for bodies in contact. A major contribution of this paper is the development of a coordinate invariant 2nd order mobility index for a body, B, in frictionless contact with nger bodies A1; : : : ;Ak. The index is an integer that captures the inherent mobility of B in an equilibrium grasp due to 2nd order, ...