Objective(s): The enteroaggregative Escherichia coli (EAEC) has been one of the most intriguing emerging bacterial pathogens in children that occur both in developing countries and the industrial world. Although various phenotypic and genotypic based protocols have been suggested for diagnosis of EAEC, they are not conclusive or practical to be used in most clinical la...

Jose J. Plata, Demet Usanmaz, Pinku Nath, Cormac Toher, Jesus Carrete, Mark Asta, Maarten de Jong, Marco Buongiorno Nardelli, Marco Fornari, and Stefano Curtarolo Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27708, USA CEA-Grenoble, 17 Rue des Martyrs, Grenoble 38000, France Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Cal...

The sensitivity of cultured L1210 and P388 cells sensitive (L1210/0, P388/0) and resistant (L1210/OAP, P388/CLA) to oxazaphosphorines, to 4-hydroperoxycyclophosphamide, ASTA Z-7557, phosphoramide mustard, and acrolein was determined in the absence and presence of known (disulfiram, diethyldithiocarbamate, cyanamide) or suspected [ethylphenyl(2-formylethyl)phosphinate] inhibitors of aldehyde deh...

Christopher Woodward, Mark Asta, Dallas R. Trinkle, James Lill, and Stefano Angioletti-Uberti Materials and Manufacturing Directorate, Air Force Research Laboratory, Wright Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton, Ohio 45433-7817, USA Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA and Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, ...

Following re-commissioning of the dual-sweep streak camera with a Gig-E readout CCD camera, a comprehensive set of measurements has been performed on the ASTA drive laser beam components with respect to bunch length, phase stability, and multiplicity of peaks. The multi-pass amplifier was identified as the primary source of the longer UV component bunch length at 4 ps and peak multiplicity. Thi...

One of us (J. C.) wishes to thank the Ciba Foundation for a grant which enabled him to pursue this study in England. Dr Bolgert kindly referred some of the patients to J. C. for biochemical study. A generous grant to C.R. from the Nuffield Foundation has made possible the establishment of a Unit for the Investigation of Pyrrole Pigment Metabolism. Our thanks are due to Miss A. Benson for skille...

Let Jk(*) = nrtr + • ■ • + asta, r > s, be the Jones polynomial of a knot if in S3. For an alternating knot, it is proved that r — s is bounded by the number of double points in any alternating projection of K. This upper bound is attained by many alternating knots, including 2-bridge knots, and therefore, for these knots, r — s gives the minimum number of double points among all alternating pr...