Abstract Streptococcus pyogenesis a significant cause of infectious morbidity and mortality globally. Antibiotics remain the essential treatment for S. pyogenesinfection however, as resistance against long-used antibiotics grows amongst bacterial pathogens antibiotic failure becomes increasingly common in pyogenestreatment, necessity alternative methods escalates. Here, we have selected conserv...

Communicating with vessels at sea is a necessity, but it is difficult and expensive. The first satellite communications networks were conceived with one primary consideration – improving the safety of seafarers and their vessels. As technology has advanced and the requirements for sending data between ship and shore have increased, the pay-per-megabyte nature of L-band demand assigned services ...

The Federal Reserve Financial Services Strategic Plan for 2012–2016 specifies five main policy goals for the next few years. The second of its goals is to “Maintain public confidence in the end-to-end safety and security of clearing and settlement systems.” Indeed, in each annual Survey of Consumer Payment Choice (SCPC), respondents consistently rank security as the most important characteristi...

This report presents a brief overview of the GMSK modulation scheme. 1 What is GMSK ? GMSK stands for Gaussian Minimum Shift Keying. This is a modulation scheme in which the phase of the carrier is instantaneously varied by the \modulating" signal (i.e. the information to transmit). GMSK diiers from MSK (Minimum Shift Keying) in that a Gaussian Filter of an appropriate bandwidth (deened by the ...

Central MessageThe interstage attrition between superior cavopulmonary connection to Fontan remains significant for patients with hypoplastic left heart syndrome.See Article page 385. The syndrome. See When Marc de Leval introduced the total in 1988, it was, like all other previous versions of operation, meant be performed as a single-stage procedure. initial concept preceding an interval (SCPC...

Acute hemorrhagic pneumonia caused by Streptococcus zooepidemicus has emerged as a major disease of shelter dogs and greyhounds. S. zooepidemicus strains differing in multilocus sequence typing (MLST), protective protein (SzP), and M-like protein (SzM) sequences were identified from 9 outbreaks in Texas, Kansas, Florida, Nevada, New Mexico, and Pennsylvania. Clonality based on 2 or more isolate...

Photosystem II (PSII) mutants are useful experimental tools to trap potential intermediates involved in the assembly of the oxygen-evolving PSII complex. Here, we focus on the subunit composition of the RC47 assembly complex that accumulates in a psbC null mutant of the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 unable to make the CP43 apopolypeptide. By using native gel electrophoresis, we show...