The DMS Staph-Trac system was evaluated as a means for identifying the species of bovine strains of staphylococci routinely isolated from quarter-milk samples. The species identity of 83 of 91 (91.2%) isolates of staphylococci was correctly determined by this method. One isolate could not be identified by this system. The Staph-Trac system was able to distinguish between Staphylococcus hyicus a...

Corrigendum to “Tuning down the emotional brain: An fMRI study of the effects of cognitive load on the processing of affective images” [NeuroImage 45/4(May 1, 2009) 1212–1219] Lotte F. Van Dillen⁎, Dirk J. Heslenfeld, Sander L. Koole a Department of Social Psychology, VU University, Van der Boechorststraat 1, 1081 BT, Amsterdam, The Netherlands b Department of Cognitive and Clinical Neuropsycho...

Converging evidence from numerous laboratories has revealed that malignant brain cancers are complex ecological systems composed of distinct cellular and acellular elements that collectively dictate glioblastoma biology. Our understanding of the individual contributions of each of these components is vital to the design of effective therapies against these cancers. In this issue of Genes & Deve...

Let sn be the number of words consisting of the ternary alphabet consisting of the digits 0, 1, and 2 such that no subword (or factor) is a square (a word concatenated with itself, e.g., 11, 1212, or 102102). From computational evidence, sn grows exponentially at a rate of about 1.317277n . While known upper bounds are already relatively close to the conjectured rate, effective lower bounds are...

It is unclear whether the survey regions, namely 6 of 1212 Villages and 4 peri-urban areas of 70 municipal wards, were chosen through an unbiased randomization process accounting at least for the socio-economic status. Apparently, the data primarily pertains to the marginalized and lower socio-economic population. The survey was largely conducted during the non winter period, when VAD estimates...

Oxidative stress has been recognized to be associated with melanoma. We have previously shown that ankyrin repeat-rich membrane spanning (ARMS), a tetra-spanning transmembrane protein, was overexpressed in melanoma cells and conferred resistance hydrogen peroxide (H2O2)-induced cell death. To explore the molecular mechanism of ARMS under oxidative stress, we established ARMS-knockdown (siARMS) ...