BACKGROUND Prospective typing of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium (STM) by multiple-locus variable-number tandem-repeat analysis (MLVA) can assist in identifying clusters of STM cases that might otherwise have gone unrecognised, as well as sources of sporadic and outbreak cases. This paper describes the dynamics of human STM infection in a prospective study of STM MLVA typing for public ...

Scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) and density-functional theory are used to reexamine the structure of the renowned p(4 x 4)-O/Ag(111) surface oxide. The accepted structural model [C. I. Carlisle, Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 3899 (2000)10.1103/PhysRevLett.84.3899] is incompatible with the enhanced resolution of the current STM measurements. An "Ag6 model" is proposed that is more stable than its pre...

Interactions between the neural correlates of short-term memory (STM) and attention have been actively studied in the visual STM domain but much less in the verbal STM domain. Here we show that the same attention mechanisms that have been shown to shape the neural networks of visual STM also shape those of verbal STM. Based on previous research in visual STM, we contrasted the involvement of a ...

Software Transactional Memory (STM) has made great advances towards acceptance into mainstream programming by promising a programming model that greatly reduces the complexity of writing concurrent programs. Unfortunately, the mechanisms in current STM implementations that enforce the fundamental properties of transactions — atomicity, consistency, and isolation — also introduce considerable pe...

Strut-and-Tie Models (STM) for the design of concrete beams, comprising of struts, ties, nodes as the basic tools, is conceptually simple, but its realization for complex concrete structure is not straightforward and depends on flow of internal forces in the structure. STM technique has won wide acceptance for deep member and shear design. STM technique is a unified approach that considers all ...

In this letter, atomically resolved scanning tunneling microscopic (STM) images obtained from monolayer SiO2/Mo(112) are presented. The results are consistent with a previously proposed structural model of isolated [SiO4] units based on vibrational features observed by high-resolution electron energy loss spectroscopy (HREELS) and infrared reflection–absorption spectroscopy (IRAS), and oxygen s...

Distributed software transactional memory (STM) promises to alleviate difficulties with lockbased (distributed) synchronization and object performance bottlenecks in distributed systems. The existing distributed STM model based on globally-consistent contention management policies may abort many transactions that could potentially commit without violating correctness. To reduce unnecessary abor...

To develop new functional materials and nanoscale electronics, researchers would like to accurately describe and precisely control the quantum state of a single molecule on a surface. Scanning tunneling microscopy (STM), combined with first-principles simulations, provides a powerful technique for acquiring this level of understanding. Traditionally, metal phthalocyanine (MPc) molecules, compos...

The adsorption of CO on an oxygen precovered Pds111d surface was investigated between 60 and 300 K. Applied methods were variable temperature scanning tunneling microscopy sSTMd and video STM to analyze the coadsorption structures. The STM data are compared with simulated STM images for the various surface phases in order to identify the appropiate structural model for each case. Low-energy ele...

Santamarine (STM), a sesquiterpene lactone component of Magnolia grandiflora and Ambrosia confertiflora, has been shown to possess antimicrobial, antifungal, antibacterial, anti-inflammatory, and anticancer activities. However, no study has yet been conducted to investigate the molecular mechanism of STM-mediated anticancer activity. In the present study, we found that STM inhibits growth and i...