A medium for the isolation and enumeration of Malassezia furfur is described. Incubation at 34 degrees C yielded geometric mean counts (in CFU per square centimeter) of 2.6 X 10(3) on the forehead, 8.5 X 10(2) on the cheek, and 9.6 X 10(3) on the back. These counts compared favorably with microscopic counts and greatly exceeded those obtained with previously described media.

Organ transplantation is an expensive, life-saving technology. Previous studies have found that few transplant recipients in the United States lack health insurance (in part because patients may become eligible for special coverage because of their disability and transplant teams vigorously advocate for their patients). Few data are available on the insurance status of U.S. organ donors. The au...

Tumor spheroids are increasingly recognized as an important in vitro model for the behavior of tumor cells in three dimensions. More physiologically relevant than conventional adherent-sheet cultures, they more accurately recapitulate the complexity and interactions present in real tumors. In order to harness this model to better assess tumor biology, or the efficacy of novel therapeutic agents...

We describe monocrystalline graphitic films, which are a few atoms thick but are nonetheless stable under ambient conditions, metallic, and of remarkably high quality. The films are found to be a two-dimensional semimetal with a tiny overlap between valence and conductance bands, and they exhibit a strong ambipolar electric field effect such that electrons and holes in concentrations up to 10(1...

IMPORTANCE No consensus exists regarding the definition of high-risk surgery in older adults. An inclusive and precise definition of high-risk surgery may be useful for surgeons, patients, researchers, and hospitals. OBJECTIVE To develop a list of high-risk operations. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS Retrospective cohort study and modified Delphi procedure. The setting included all Pennsy...

The overall goal of MENELAS is to provide better access to the information contained in natural language patient discharge summaries, through the design and implementation of a pilot system able to access medical reports through natural languages. A first, experimental version of the MENELAS indexing prototype for French has been assembled. Its function is to encode free text PDSs into both an ...

We obtain a polynomial type upper bound for the size of the integral solutions of Thue equations F (X,Y ) = b defined over a totally real number field K, assuming that F (X, 1) has a root α such that K(α) is a CM-field. Furthermore, we give an algorithm for the computation of the integral solutions of such an equation.

We compare observations of the eclipsing binary system CM Draconis (hereafter CM Dra) with synthetic spectra computed using the stellar atmosphere code PHOENIX. High-resolution infrared spectroscopic observations of six 0.05-mm-wide regions between 1.51 and 2.45mm, combined with previous work, particularly CM Dra’s accurately known surface gravity, enable us to estimate its metallicity using de...

2 CM points on quaternion algebras 4 2.1 CM points, special points and reduction maps . . . . . . . . . 4 2.1.1 Quaternion algebras. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 2.1.2 Algebraic groups. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 2.1.3 Adelic groups. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 2.1.4 Main objects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 2.1.5 Galois action...