Mitochondrial hypervariable region I genetic data from ancient populations at two sites from Asia, Linzi in Shandong (northern China) and Egyin Gol in Mongolia, were reanalyzed to detect population affinities. Data from a total of 51 modern populations were used to generate distance measures (Fst’s) to the two ancient populations. The tests first analyzed relationships at the regional level, an...

We present ALMA 870-μm (345GHz) observations of two sub-millimetre galaxies (SMGs) drawn from an ALMA study of the 126 sub-millimeter sources from the LABOCA Extended Chandra Deep Field South Survey (LESS). The ALMA data identify the counterparts to these previously unidentified sub-millimeter sources and serendipitously detect bright emission lines in their spectra which we show are most likel...

The advent of online social network and mobile multimedia communication has made content sharing in social network easier and more efficient. It is very important to combine fingerprinting and encryption for social multimedia content protection. In this paper, a parallel JFE (joint fingerprinting and encryption) framework is proposed. Firstly, the multi-level social fingerprint code is produced...

Electronic health records (EHRs) facilitates the healthcare process. However, it can also cause serious security and privacy problems. While various conventional encryption mechanisms can solve some aspects of these problems, they cannot address the illegal distribution of decrypted medical images. To protect decrypted medical images from being illegally distributed by an authorized staff membe...

Predictive models for the exponential growth rate (EGR) and germination, outgrowth, and lag times (GOL) of Bacillus stearothermophilus previously developed in our laboratory were expanded to include higher salt (1.5%) formulations. The expanded models were validated in 7 military meals-ready-to-eat incubated at temperatures from 45 °C to 60 °C, and tryptic soy broth incubated from 37.5 °C to 70...

Several bacteria use glycerol dehydrogenase to transform glycerol into dihydroxyacetone (Dha). Dha is subsequently converted into Dha phosphate (Dha-P) by an ATP- or phosphoenolpyruvate (PEP)-dependent Dha kinase. Listeria innocua possesses two potential PEP-dependent Dha kinases. One is encoded by 3 of the 11 genes forming the glycerol (gol) operon. This operon also contains golD (lin0362), wh...

Application layer multicasting has emerged as an appealing alternative to network layer multicasting in wireline networks. Here, we examine the suitability of application layer multicast in ad hoc networks. To this effect, we propose a flexible receiver-driven overlay multicast protocol which we call Application Layer Multicast Algorithm (ALMA). ALMA constructs an overlay multicast tree in a dy...

events were considered, reflecting the year 2015. All outcomes were discounted at 3.5% annually. Results: Regarding the AS subpopulation, the total treatment cost for IFX, ADA, CZP, ETA, GOL and CC was: € 67,736, € 38,914, € 38,721, € 38,290, € 35,338 and € 4,110; and the quality-adjusted life years (QALYs) were: 10.031, 9.882, 9.949, 9.933, 9.903 and 9.360, respectively. CZP dominated ADA and ...

The objective of this study was to develop a model to predict the growth of C. perfringens from spores at temperatures applicable to the cooling of cooked cured meat products. C. perfringens growth from spores was not observed at a temperature of Ž . 12 C for up to 3 weeks. The two parameters: germination, outgrowth, and lag GOL time and exponential growth rate, EGR, were determined using a fun...