Scientific interest in the interaction of nonionizing electromagnetic fields with biological systems is longstanding, but often still controversial. Theories, models and computer simulations have usually emphasized physical interactions with subsystems (e.g. cell membranes) of a biological system. By extending this first necessary physical step to a second step of explicitly and quantitatively ...

The June 28, 1992, Mw 7.3 Landers earthquake occurred in the southeastern Mojave Desert, California. Over 10,000 aftershocks of the earthquake were recorded by the Caltech-USGS Southern California Seismic Network (SCSN) in 1992. To investigate the relationship between complexities in the crustal structure and variations in seismicity, we have used a tomographic method to invert 145,098 P wave a...

OBJECTIVES This study aims to identify the cost-effectiveness of two brain metastatic treatment modalities, stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) versus surgical resection (SR), from the perspective of Germany's Statutory Health Insurance (SHI) System. METHODS Retrospectively reviewing 373 patients with brain metastases (BMs) who underwent SR (n=113) and SRS (n=260). Propensity score matching was u...

A procedure for the extraction and isolation of the peroxidase in pig thyroid glands has been described. The enzyme has been purified by gel filtration and diethylaminoethyl chromatography, and its spectral properties suggest that the enzyme is a typical hemoprotein peroxidase, while gel filtration experiments have shown it to have a molecular weight of 104,000. The specific activity of the pre...

The anticoagulant and anti-inflammatory enzyme, activated protein C (APC), naturally controls thrombosis without affecting hemostasis. We therefore evaluated whether the integrity of primary hemostasis was preserved during limited pharmacological antithrombotic protein C activator (PCA) treatment in baboons. The double-mutant thrombin (Trp215Ala/ Glu217Ala) with less than 1% procoagulant activi...

Dpr is an iron-binding protein required for oxygen tolerance in Streptococcus mutans. We previously proposed that Dpr could confer oxygen tolerance to the bacterium by sequestering intracellular free iron ions that catalyze generation of highly toxic radicals (Y. Yamamoto, M. Higuchi, L. B. Poole, and Y. Kamio, J. Bacteriol. 182:3740-3747, 2000; Y. Yamamoto, L. B. Poole, R. R. Hantgan, and Y. K...

Understanding the evolution and maintenance of sexual reproduction is one of the central challenges of evolutionary biology, yet we know very little about how sex influences molecular evolution. The New Zealand freshwater snail Potamopyrgus antipodarum is ideally suited to address this knowledge gap because obligately sexual individuals often coexist with multiple independently derived obligate...

Non-suicidal and suicidal self-injury are very destructive, yet surprisingly common behaviours. Depressed mood is a major risk factor for non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI), suicidal ideation and suicide attempts. We conducted a genetic risk prediction study to examine the polygenic overlap of depressive symptoms with lifetime NSSI, suicidal ideation, and suicide attempts in a sample of 6237 Austr...

We present 97 new high-quality strong lensing candidates found in the final $\sim 350\,\rm deg^2$, that completed full 1350\,\rm deg^2$ area of Kilo-Degree Survey (KiDS). Together with our previous findings, list from KiDS sums up to 268 systems. The sample is assembled using a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) classifier applied $r$-band (best seeing) and $g,~r,~i$ color-composited images sep...

The diversity and distribution of macrofaunal communities in the deep-sea bottoms Gulf Mexico (GoM) Mexican waters are poorly known compared to northern GoM. This study was designed contribute knowledge macrofauna through (i) evaluate taxonomic composition at major taxa level, (ii) analyze spatial patterns deep sea southwestern Benthic analyzed a large geographical area (92.67°–96.70° W 18.74°–...