Staphylococcus capitis EPK1 produces a glycylglycine endopeptidase, ALE-1 (M. Sugai, T. Fujiwara, T. Akiyama, M. Ohara, H. Komatsuzawa, S. Inoue, and H. Suginaka, J. Bacteriol. 179:1193-1202, 1997), which hydrolyzes interpeptide pentaglycine chains of cell wall peptidoglycan of S. aureus. Characterizations of the enzyme activity and cloning of ale-1 revealed that ALE-1 is very similar to prolys...

INTRODUCTION Hurricane Katrina, a Category 3 hurricane, made landfall in August 2005. Approximately 1,500 deaths have been directly attributed to the hurricane, primarily in Louisiana and Mississippi. In New Orleans, Louisiana, most of the healthcare infrastructure was destroyed by flooding, and > 200,000 residents became homeless. Many of these internally displaced persons received transitiona...

The addition of a rocking structural system will soften the connection between foundation and superstructure help beam-column connections to become softer than typical ones. These structures, with systems, follow elastic gap opening mechanism seismic response. Post-tensioned prestressed tendons dampers are used in systems enable structure return its initial position (self-centering) dissipate e...

This paper presents a new approach to the project of steel buildings, mainly focused on architectural, structural, and seismic design stairs. The objective is structural stair system capable controlling damage contributing bracing building. article begins with review standard (ATC, FEMA, EC8) which current criteria for buildings stairs are based. research based two spatial building models (A–B)...

هدف اصلی این پژوهش ارائه چارچوبی برای ارزیابی عملکرد شرکت بهره‌­برداری قطار شهری مشهد بر مبنای کارت امتیازی متوازن و تکنیک تصمیم‌­گیری چندمعیاره (بهترین ـ بدترین فازی) است. حاضر از نظر هدف، کاربردی روش، کمّی اسنادی جمع‌­آوری داده‌های کیفی اساس 15 خبره در طی مقطع زمانی بین سال­‌های 1396 تا 1398 صورت پذیرفت. 9 معیار منظر مالی، 16 مشتریان، 8 فرایند داخلی 14 رشد توسعه یادگیری طریق اسناد پژوهش­‌های پ...

The 1993 flooding of the Midwestern United States was of long duration, spatially extensive, and economically damaging. Estimated property losses exceeded $12 billion, and millions more were suffered in indirect losses (IFMRC 1994; Myers and White 1993). Fifty people were killed. At least 26,000 people were evacuated from their homes, and approximately 100,000 buildings were affected. The flood...

The study examined the challenges of emergency management and response in Nigeria; a case FCT Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), Nigeria. assesses nature trend disasters situations prevalent Federal Capital Territory (FCT), effectiveness FEMA’s to FCT, highlights Environmental FCT. Both primary secondary methods data collection were used. Descriptive statistics used analyze data. findings reve...