A marine bacterium M44 was separated from 30 m deep seawater in the East China Sea (26° 28.3' N 122° 29.0' E) in 2006. 16S rDNA gene sequence comparison showed that the strain M44 was a member of the genus Sulfitobacter and highly similar to KMM 3554(T). A series of experiments demonstrated that this strain M44 had many distinctive characteristics: its cells were gram-negative and mesophilic; i...

Digital Access to a Sky Century @ Harvard (DASCH) is a project to digitize the collection of ∼500,000 glass photographic plates held at Harvard College Observatory. The collection spans the time period from 1880 to 1985, during which time every point on the sky has been observed approximately 500 to 1000 times. In this paper we describe the results of the DASCH commissioning run, during which w...

We compared results of disk diffusion antifungal susceptibility testing from Candida sp. strains passaged on CHROMagar and on potato dextrose agar. The overall categorical agreements for fluconazole and voriconazole disk testing were 95% and 98% with 0% and 0.5% very major errors, respectively. Disk diffusion testing by the CLSI (formerly NCCLS) M44-A method can be performed accurately by takin...

Several human monoclonal antibodies (hmAbs) including b12, 2G12, and 2F5 exhibit relatively potent and broad HIV-1-neutralizing activity. However, their elicitation in vivo by vaccine immunogens based on the HIV-1 envelope glycoprotein (Env) has not been successful. We have hypothesized that HIV-1 has evolved a strategy to reduce or eliminate the immunogenicity of the highly conserved epitopes ...

Arrestins constitute a family of small cytoplasmic proteins that mediate deactivation of G-protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) and are known to be essential for cascade inactivation and receptor desensitization. Alternative splicing produces an array of arrestin gene products that have widely different specificities for their cognate receptors in vitro, but the differential functions of these spl...

Doc # Title Note N2666 Principles on Encoding Phags-pa Script initial comments on N2622, prior to WG2 M44 SC2/N3730 Summary of Voting (PDAM1) China comments on Phags-pa accepted for PDAM1 (≡ N2622), prior to WG2 M45 N2706 Summary of Voting (Amd. 1 subdivision) China comments on N2622 (same comments provided in SC2/N3730) N2745 HPhags-pa script encoding alternate proposal from China and Mongolia...

The in vitro activities of fluconazole and voriconazole against 1,024 clinical isolates of Candida spp. were determined by the agar disk diffusion test using the Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute (CLSI) M44-A guidelines. The results of this investigation demonstrated the broad-spectrum in vitro activity of voriconazole, relative to that of fluconazole, against yeasts tested, in partic...

Work commenced in the first half of 2019 on newest section M 44, connecting Nagykőrös to Békéscsaba, between Lakitelek and Tiszakürt. A new 556-metre-long Tisza bridge was built here by A-Híd Zrt., based plans Uvaterv Co. (professional designer), with a maximum span 152 metres. The project is implemented National Infrastructure Development Ltd., main contractor Duna Aszfalt Ltd. traffic started...