Two brief midwater trawl surveys were conducted at depths of 250–1000 m in the Gulf of Alaska in April 2007 and March 2008, during which several species were recorded for the 1st time from this region. In this report we note the 1st records of Maulisia argipalla, Pachystomias microdon, Lestidiops ringens, and Scopelengys tristis from the Gulf of Alaska, the 1st records of Argyropelecus lychnus ...

We describe a first-and-second-diffractive-order intraocular lens ((1st,2nd)DIOL) within the class of hybrid refractive-diffractive designs for intraocular lenses (IOLs) and analyse its properties of focus extension and compensation of longitudinal chromatic aberration (LCA), particularly for lenses with low addition. Power, energy efficiency and their wavelength dependence are extended from mo...

Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (KSHV) is tightly linked to at least two lymphoproliferative disorders, primary effusion lymphoma (PEL) and multicentric Castleman's disease (MCD). However, the development of KSHV-mediated lymphoproliferative disease is not fully understood. Here, we generated two recombinant KSHV viruses deleted for the first RBP-Jκ binding site (RTA(1st)) and all three...

Review timeline: TPC2016-00890-RA Submission received: Nov. 28, 2016 1st Decision: January 3, 2017 manuscript declined TPC2017-00207-RA Submission received: March 14, 2017 1st Decision April 17, 2017 manuscript declined Appeal requested: April 20, 2017 Appeal decision: April 28, 2017 TPC2017-00349-RA Submission received: May 3, 2017 1st Decision: May 9, 2017 accept with minor revision TPC2017-0...

Este trabalho é um tutorial sobre lógica nebulosa, trazendo conceitos básicos desta área de pesquisa bem como sua ligação com algumas outras áreas importantes como controle, algoritmos genéticos e redes neurais.

We study the rigorous design and analysis of stacked rotated gratings (SRGs) for novel photonic devices. A concept of sampling frequency is proposed to systematically design SRGs. With the help of a rectangular sampling lattice, we extend the standard 3D rigorous coupled-wave analysis (RCWA) algorithm to the analysis of SRGs. The resultant SRG-RCWA algorithm can be used to exactly analyze SRGs ...

Corynebacterium diphtheriae and Corynebacterium ulcerans are rarely isolated from clinical samples in Belgium. A case of toxigenic C. ulcerans in a woman is described, which confirms that this pathogen is still present. During investigation of the patient's cats, only a non-toxigenic toxin-bearing C. diphtheriae strain was detected.

There are currently more than 40 species of Legionella and the identification of most of these by standard methods is technically difficult. The aim of this study was to assess the suitability of a previously published PCR-based method of identifying Legionella spp. Intergenic 16S-23S rDNA spacer regions were amplified with primers complementary to conserved regions of the rRNA genes. Following...

Post-translational modifications (PTMs) are widely used by eukaryotes to control the enzymatic activity, localization or stability of their proteins. Traditionally, it was believed that the broad biochemical diversity of the PTMs is restricted to eukaryotic cells, which exploit it in extensive networks to fine-tune various and complex cellular functions. During the last decade, the advanced det...

BACKGROUND The aim of this retrospective study was to evaluate the course of dry eye syndrome after phacoemulsification surgery. METHODS One hundred and ninety-two eyes of 96 patients (30 males, 66 females) with chronic dry eye syndrome and cataract, who had undergone phacoemulsification surgery were enrolled in this study. RESULTS Their mean age was 68.46 ± 8.14 standard deviation (SD) (ra...