Running title: Rao et al.; Mitral valve surgery during the golden years 505 P A B 0124

1 From raw reads to trees: Whole genome SNP phylogenetics across the tree of 1 life 2 3 Sanaa A. Ahmed, Chien-Chi Lo, Po-E Li, Karen W. Davenport, and Patrick S. G. Chain 4 5 Biome Sciences, Bioscience Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, MS-M888, Los 6 Alamos, NM 87545 7 Corresponding author: 8 Patrick S.G. Chain 9 Scientist IV 10 Los Alamos National Laboratory 11 MS-M888 12 Los Alamos, N...

The effect of Yb ions on the blue upconversion (UPC) emission of Yb–Tm co-doped ZrO2 nanocrystals is reported. The blue (490 nm) UPC emission is due to G4– H6 transition of Tm 3+ and the pump power dependence of this UPC emission band are cubic indicating that three excitation photons are involved in the UPC process. An additional UPC emission band at 505 nm is observed when the Yb concentratio...

To determine the prevalence of asymptomatic bacteriuria in pregnancy, midstream urine samples from 505 pregnant women in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, were screened using urine culture and urinalysis. Urine cultures showed heavy growth (> or = 10(5) colony forming units/mL) in 4.8% (24/505) of the samples; 16/24 (66.7%) of these isolates were Escherichia coli. Microscopic examination had the h...