Although the importance of a correct abundance assumption in the determination of effective temperature and surface gravity of a star has been demonstrated in the literature, this determination is often still extremely simplified, neglecting the effects of non-solar chemical abundances. In this paper we show how the modeling of the profiles of Hδ and Hγ, commonly used as Teff and log g indicato...

BACKGROUND The staphylococcal protein A (spa) locus of Staphylococcus aureus contains a complex repeat structure and is commonly used for single-locus sequence-based genotyping. The real-time PCR platform supports genotyping methods that are single step and closed tube and potentially can be carried out simultaneously with diagnosis. We describe here a method for genotyping S. aureus using high...

Exoplanets can be detected from a time series of stellar spectra by looking for small, periodic shifts in the absorption features that are consistent with Doppler shifts caused by the presence of an exoplanet, or multiple exoplanets, in the system. While hundreds of large exoplanets have already been discovered with the Doppler technique (also called radial velocity), our goal is to improve the...

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G. D. Dickenson,1 E. J. Salumbides,1,2 M. Niu,1 Ch. Jungen,3 S. C. Ross,4,5 and W. Ubachs1,* 1Department of Physics and Astronomy, LaserLaB, VU University, de Boelelaan 1081, 1081HV, Amsterdam, The Netherlands 2Department of Physics, University of San Carlos, Cebu City 6000, The Philippines 3Laboratoire Aimé Cotton du CNRS, Université de Paris-Sud, 91405 Orsay, France 4Department of Physics and...

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Forensic studies of past hydraulic structure failures are rare despite their critical relevance to modern hydraulic design, and the writers (Dai et al., 2005) must be congratulated for their outstanding study. Herein the discussion is focused on two aspects of the conclusion. It is believed that dam overtopping was the primary cause of the Dadu river landslide dam failure, although aftershocks ...

Methods From March 2009 through January 2011, we enrolled 15,460 children in two age categories — 6 to 12 weeks of age and 5 to 17 months of age — for vaccination with either RTS,S/AS01 or a non-malaria comparator vaccine. The primary end point of the analysis was vaccine efficacy against clinical malaria during the 12 months after vaccination in the first 6000 children 5 to 17 months of age at...

AIM To evaluate PT derived fibrinogen determinations with reference to the Clauss fibrinogen assay using a Sysmex CA-6000 random access coagulation analyser. METHODS Samples were analysed from normal subjects (n = 20), patients with renal or liver dysfunction (n = 25), critically ill patients (n = 25), patients receiving oral anticoagulant treatment (n = 50), and patients with a haemoglobinop...