By Dean Chang EDITORIAL ASSISTANT To attain the lofty status of All-American would require a combination o f talent, hard work and determination. Going into Ihc Nationals held at Emory University in Atlanta, none of Ihc five women nor their coach of Albany Slate's women's swim team expected thni much from themselves. The Nationals would be a solid learning experience for Ihc groups, and would i...

— Reflectivity, fluorescence and photoelectron spectra from CaF2 single crystals hâve been measured using synchrotron radiation in the 10 to 100 eV range. The spectra contain features ascribed to excitons and to the band structure. Peaks due to conduction-band states derived from the 3d atomic levels are prominent in ail three

Tonsils of 829 fattening pigs originating from Belgium (n = 201), Italy (n = 428), and Spain (n = 200) were collected between 2005 and 2007 to study the prevalence of enteropathogenic Yersinia in slaughter pigs. Isolation of Yersinia enterocolitica and Yersinia pseudotuberculosis was done by selective enrichment and by cold enrichment for 7 and 14 days. Pathogenic Y. enterocolitica and Y. pseud...

Yersinia enterocolitica is considered an important food-borne pathogen impacting the pork production and processing industry in the United States. Since this bacterium is a commensal of swine, the primary goal of this study was to determine the prevalence of pathogenic Y. enterocolitica in pigs in the United States using feces as the sample source. A total of 2,793 fecal samples were tested for...