Burkholderia cepacia, a major pathogen amongst individuals with cystic fibrosis (CF), is intrinsically resistant to most clinically available antibiotics. We report the identification of an immunodominant antigen in CF patients infected with B. cepacia, a multidrug-resistance efflux pump called BcrA. The bcrA gene encodes a 46 kDa peptide with 14 potential alpha-helices that belongs to the majo...

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To assess three breast cancer risk assessment tools in obese rural Korean women. DESIGN Cross-sectional survey design. SETTING Community settings in the rural region of northeastern South Korea. SAMPLE A nested cohort sample of 64 severely obese women aged 40-60 years from the Korean Genomic Regional Cohort registry. METHODS The Breast Cancer Risk Assessment Tool of t...

The debate surrounding the impact of the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002 (BCRA) has focused largely on congressional campaigns, and the role of soft money and issue advocacy in them. It has largely (and to some extent deliberately) ignored presidential campaigns. Ironically, BCRA’s most immediate impact may be on presidential politics, beginning with the 2004 election cycle. Four aspects...

Agreement between different models of spectrophotometers is increasingly being recognized as an issue in the industry. Brand owners are requesting color tolerances that are in some cases too tight to be met when using different make and model spectrophotometers along the supply chain. This often means that printers are being required to purchase a different model of spectrophotometer for each p...

This paper starts by surveying papers that have quantified the level of agreement between instruments. The results are consistent in that there is not as much agreement as we would like. “Standardization” has been suggested as a means for improving intra-model agreement. In standardization, measurements of a set of samples are taken with two instruments. The measurements are compared, and this ...

IntRoduCtIon This past decade has brought important change to the delivery of healthcare in the United States. In 2010, President Barack Obama signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA, also referred to as ACA or Obamacare) into law. The ACA sought to provide insurance for millions of additional Americans while simultaneously bending the cost curve down. Beyond that, the far-...

در آشکار‌ساز CMS نسبت‌های انشعاب بوزون هیگز مدل استاندارد به جفت‌‌های J/ψ(1S) و cc ترتیب برابر 2-10×1/8 2-10×2/89 اندازه‌گیری شده است. لحاظ نظری یکی از سناریوهای ممکن برای تولید مستقیم این است که آغاز جفت واپاشی نماید سپس مرحله‌ی بعد هر یک کوارک‌های c طور مزون ترکش کنند. بر اساس سناریو مقاله بطریق کوارک‎های با استفاده نظریه اختلال مکانیک کوانتومی رنگ (pQCD) نظر گرفتن حالت‌های قطبش طولی عرضی محا...