"Slime" played a brief and spectacular role in the 19th century founded by the theory of primordial slime by Ernst Haeckel. However, that substance was never found and eventually abandoned. Further scientific attention slowly began in the 1930s referring to slime as a microbial product and then was inspired by "How bacteria stick" by Costerton et al. in 1978, and the matrix material was conside...

Nitric-oxide synthases (NOSs) are flavo-heme enzymes whose electron transfer reactions are controlled by calmodulin (CaM). The NOS flavoprotein domain includes a ferredoxin-NADP(+) reductase (FNR)-like module that contains NADPH- and FAD-binding sites. FNR-like modules in related flavoproteins have three conserved residues that regulate electron transfer between bound NAD(P)H and FAD. To invest...

This study examines the effects of particle sizes between 3 and 121 μm on the fundamental vibrations of the [CO3(2-)] anion in calcite [CaCO3] as analyzed by total attenuated reflectance infrared spectroscopy (ATR-IR) and Raman spectroscopy (RS). The ATR-IR absorbance intensity ratios of the [ν4/ν3] [712 cm(-1)/1393 cm(-1)], [ν4/ν2] [712 cm(-1)/871 cm(-1)], and [ν2/ν3] [871 cm(-1)/1393 cm(-1)] ...

In a recent paper, Klein and Western (2004) provide evidence on the political affiliations of faculty at UC Berkeley and Stanford, finding that Democrats far outnumber Republicans. This is an important contribution to debates about political beliefs in academia due to the effort to systematically these authors make to quantify these beliefs via party registration. In this comment, we make two a...

Fire season precipitation trends were investigated using daily rainfall data obtained from seventy-six Remote Automated Weather Stations (RAWS) across Idaho and Montana for the period 1982 to 2006. Missing and erroneous values from each station were corrected with gridded data from the North American Regional Reanalysis (NARR), creating temporally consistent, comparable records. Monthly precipi...

The movement of information between people and systems describes the idea flow. Efficient secure flows are a central factor in performance any logistics system or process. Sources targets an flow designate sets objects that can send receive conveyed item. Key words: Logistics Performance, Customer satisfaction, Information flow, Systems Security CITATION: Apaa, M. A. (2022). practices NGOs Kisu...

Fluoroquinolones were discovered in the 1960s as a derivative of the antimalarial drug chloroquine. Over the past 40 years, many fluoroquinolones have been developed for use in human and veterinary medicine. As with all classes of antibiotics, resistance to fluoroquinolones is a serious concern, and multiple avenues for resistance are being investigated. Resistance-associated point mutations in...

The themes presented in this Presidential address are introduced through masterpieces of medicine in art from the very earliest depictions to the modern day. The representations of medicine in art provide a commentary on the place of medicine in society and how it was viewed by society. Some artists used their work both to highlight important health issues of the time and as a " propaganda " to...