Gyrodactylus molweni sp. n. is described from the body surface and fins of South African mullet, Chelon richardsonii (Smith, 1846) collected Table Bay Harbour, Cape Town compared to five other species grey mullets globally namely G. zhukovi Ling, 1963 mugili Zhukov, 1970 Planiliza haematocheila (Temminck Schlegel, 1845); mugelus Rawson, 1973 Mugil cephalus L.; curemae Conroy Conroy, 1985 curema...

Under 5 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 931 6.4 5 to 9 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,043 7.2 10 to 14 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,033 7.1 15 to 19 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,040 7.2 20 to 24 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....

Taxonogenomics coupled with culturomics promotes the isolation and characterization of bacteria. Kallipyga gabonensis sp. nov. strain GM4 is a strictly anaerobic, Gram-positive, and non motile coccus isolated from the stool of a Gabonese male teenager. The genome is 1,621,211 bp long with 50.01% G+C content and two scaffolds. Of the 1,536 predicted genes, 1,475 were protein-coding genes and 61 ...

To assess the predictive value for perinatal brain damage of acidosis at birth, alone or in combination with the Apgar score at 5 minutes, a cohort of 982 liveborn infants delivered over two months was studied prospectively. The umbilical cord was double clamped, and arterial acid-base values were successfully determined in 964 infants and lactate concentration in 931. Reference values defining...

Mitochondrial morphology is regulated by the balance between two counteracting mitochondrial processes of fusion and fission. There is significant evidence suggesting a stringent association between morphology and bioenergetics of mitochondria. Morphological alterations in mitochondria are linked to several pathological disorders, including cardiovascular diseases. The consequences of stress-in...

In this paper we present results from measurements of WWW-traffic, the analysis of the data measured, and derive two simple models that could be used to describe WWW-traffic for performance assessment purposes. We analyze client WWW-sessions that are characterized by the size of the response and inter-response intervals. The samples of both categories are found to exhibit heavy-tailed propertie...

Analytical comparison of in vitro spiked human serum and plasma for the PCR-based 1 detection of Aspergillus fumigatus DNA – a study by the European Aspergillus PCR 2 Initiative 3 4 Juergen Loeffler*, Carlo Mengoli, Jan Springer, Stephane Bretagne, Manuel Cuenca 5 Estrella, Lena Klingspor, Katrien Lagrou, Willem JG Melchers, C. Oliver Morton, 6 Rosemary A. Barnes, J. Peter Donnelly, and P. Lewi...

Born-Oppenheimer approximation Hylleraas variational calculations with up to 7034 expansion terms are reported for the 1sigma(g)+ ground state of neutral hydrogen at various internuclear distances. The nonrelativistic energy is calculated to be -1.174 475 714 220(1) hartree at R = 1.4 bohr, which is four orders of magnitude better than the best previous Hylleraas calculation, that of Wolniewicz...