In this study, four clinical isolates and over 100 colony morphology mutants, previously derived spontaneously from strain 3153A during growth on glucose medium, were examined for their utilization of 21 carbon and 3 nitrogen sources at various growth temperatures. The results demonstrated extensive variability in the pattern of assimilation among the mutants and strains, including both the gai...

We are developing simulation and analysis tools in order to develop a solid Earth Science framework for understanding and studying active tectonic and earthquake processes. The goal of QuakeSim and its extension, the Solid Earth Research Virtual Observatory (SERVO), is to study the physics of earthquakes using state-of-the-art modeling, data manipulation, and pattern recognition technologies. W...

The assimilation model describes therapeutic change as an integration of experiences that had previously been problematic, distressing, avoided, or warded off. This study assessed whether assimilation was associated with treatment outcome in a sample of psychotherapeutic treatments for depression. Further, it assessed the direction of the association-whether increasing assimilation predicted de...

1 Introduction The distribution of schwa is similar across most Northern Berber languages. The general pattern in all cases can be seen as the result of two restrictions on the surface forms of the language: one demanding that all consonants be adjacent to a vowel (or, more or less equivalently, that all consonants belong to a maximally CVC syllable), the other demanding that schwa not occur in...

The assimilation of enterprise systems has extensive influence on power interactions within organizations. Previous assimilation research has typically focused on organizational-level assimilation processes, and the impact of individual characteristics, including personal power, has been overlooked. Social network analysis provides a useful way to empirically examine the changes to personal pow...

This article shows that the prevalence of four common child health conditions increases across generations (from first-generation immigrant children to second-generation U.S.born children of immigrants to third-and-higher-generation children) within each of four major U.S. racial/ethnic groups. In the third-plus generation, black and Hispanic children have higher rates of nearly all conditions....

The present study examined the neural basis of phonological processing in Chinese later acquired as a second language (L2). The regularity effect of Chinese was selected to elucidate the addressed phonological processing. We recruited a group of alphabetic language speakers who had been learning Chinese as L2 for at least one year, and a control group of native Chinese speakers. Participants fr...

In the study of 4D Var data assimilation of atmospheric models, an important issue to address is the case of incomplete observations in either the space or time dimension. In an ideal setting 4-D Var data assimilation assumes the observation data field to be complete, and if there are gaps in the data, these are being taken into account in the process of data assimilation. To assess the impact ...

Monsoon depressions form over the sea, which is a typical data-sparse region for conventional observations. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) provides for very high-horizontal resolution temperature and humidity soundings. Such high-resolution satellite data can improve the poorly analyzed depressions. The objective of this study is to investigate the impact of ingesting...

STUDY DESIGN This is a cross-sectional analysis of resonance magnetic images of 111 patients with craniocervical malformations and those of normal subjects. OBJECTIVE To test the hypothesis that atlas assimilation is associated with basilar invagination (BI) and atlas's anterior arch assimilation is associated with craniocervical instability and type I BI. SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA Atlas a...