The strain of Bacillus sp. CMAA 1363 was isolated from the Brazilian Caatinga biome and showed plant growth-promoting traits and ability to promote maize growth under drought stress. Sequencing revealed genes involved in stress response and plant growth promotion. These genomic features might aid in the protection of plants against the negative effects imposed by drought.

clinical care without having to demonstrate that they are achieving acceptable standards. Several factors are contributing to a dilution of this implicit trust and to increasing demands for explicit evidence about the performance of the medical profession. Some of these factors represent social trends; for example, the de-professionalization of society, demands for greater accountability of pub...

The respectively construction in English is exempliied by sentence (1): (1) English and Dutch are used in Guyana and Suriname, respectively. Gr] Example (1) establishes two relations: one between English and Guyana, and one between Dutch and Suriname. Such examples have often been taken to show that respectively induces an intrasentential syntactic dependency among corresponding members of two ...

The interplay between mechanical strains and battery electrochemistry, or the tunable mechanochemistry of batteries, remains an emerging research area with limited experimental progress. In this report, we demonstrate how elastic strains applied to vanadium pentoxide (V2O5), a widely studied cathode material for Li-ion batteries, can modulate the kinetics and energetics of lithium-ion intercala...

The relative impact of 23 mutations on biofilm formation was evaluated in the USA300, methicillin-resistant strain LAC. Mutation of sarA, atl, codY, rsbU, and sigB limited biofilm formation in comparison to the parent strain, but the limitation imposed by mutation of sarA was greater than that imposed by mutation of any of these other genes. The reduced biofilm formation of all mutants other th...

Shear zones geometry in the Paraíba do Sul belt, southeastern Brazil, delineates a NE-trending fan-like structure. Shear zones dip towards SE in the northern limb, and towards NW in the southern one. This geometry has been interpreted either due to transpression or to late folding of flat-lying thrust surfaces. Stretching lineation plunges to ENE-ESE in the northern limb and towards NNE-NE in t...

Numerical homogenization is a tool to determine effective macroscopic material properties for microstructured materials. This tool is tailored and applied to ensembles of young and elder human and of porcine and bovine vertebral bone specimens. On the microscale of the spongiosa a linearized Lamé–Navier type elasticity model is assumed and the computed macroscopic material properties are repres...

Protoplast fusion was applied to obtain intraspecific fusion in yeast strains in order to overcome restrictions imposed by the natural mating system. Acriflavine was used to construct petite mutants from non-flocculent industrial Saccharomyces cerevisiae saké strain. UV radiation was used to construct ura- mutants from a respiratory competent and highly flocculent S. cerevisiae NCYC869 strain. ...

Stress relaxation in strained-Si MOSFETs can be significant in the presence of compressive stress imposed by trench isolation, especially for highly scaled active regions. Stress of the strained region is reduced by ∼2/3 when the active region is scaled from Lactive=0.4 μm to 0.1 μm. Mobility can be lower by 50 % for narrow active widths resulting from the strain relaxation. The strain relaxati...