The Mobile Agents model-based, distributed architecture, which integrates diverse components in a system for lunar and planetary surface operations, was extensively tested in a two-week field “technology retreat” at the Mars Society’s Desert Research Station (MDRS) during April 2003. More than twenty scientists and engineers from three NASA centers and two universities refined and tested the sy...

Plants produce an enormous array of biologically active metabolites, often with stereochemical variations on the same molecular scaffold. These changes in stereochemistry dramatically impact biological activity. Notably, the stereoisomers of the heteroyohimbine alkaloids show diverse pharmacological activities. We reported a medium chain dehydrogenase/reductase (MDR) from Catharanthus roseus th...

A collection of 94 Gram-negative bacteria isolates, showing different antimicrobial resistance phenotypes including to the carbapenem classes was investigated. Strains were originated form clinical sources from a single hospital in Tripoli, Libya during 2015 and were identified based on cultural and phenotypic characteristics, and fully characterized by the VITEK automated system. Forty-eight p...

A microdroplet or a latex microsphere often acts as an optical cavity that supports Morphology Dependent Resonances (MDRs) at wavelengths where the droplet circumference is an integer multiple of the emission wavelength. Enhanced radiative energy transfer through these optical resonances can also be utilized as a transduction mechanism for chemical and biological sensing. Enhancement in radiati...

Background. TB is a global pandemic disease. All TB control programs were not successful due to the emergence of multidrug resistance in M. tuberculosis strains. Objective of the present study was to detect the rate of MDR-MTB in this part of India. Methods. One hundred and thirty clinical MTB strains isolated from patients on treatment and confirmed as MTB by MPT64 antigen detection were teste...

RESUMO: Objetivos: Determinar o fenótipo de susceptibilidade frente aos antimicrobianos bactérias isoladas antes e depois da desinfecção leitos em dois hospitais no Sudeste do Pará. Métodos: Estudo tipo descritivo, realizado Estado Pará, um baixa média complexidade- hospital A (HA) outro alta B (HB). identificação quanto ao gênero espécie seguiram as recomendações ANVISA para determinação perfi...

This paper presents the mHealth Predictive Outbreak for COVID-19 (mPOC) framework, an autonomous platform based on wearable Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) devices outbreak prediction and monitoring. It utilizes real-time physiological environmental data to assess user risk. The framework incorporates analysis psychological user-centric data, adopting a combination top-down bottom-up approach...

While there is increasing evidence for unique chemical reactions at interfaces, there are fewer data on photochemistry at liquid-vapor junctions. This paper reports a comparison of the photolysis of molybdenum hexacarbonyl, Mo(CO)(6), in 1-decene either as liquid droplets or in bulk-liquid solutions. Mo(CO)(6) photolysis is faster by at least three orders of magnitude in the aerosols than in bu...

Human long duration exploration missions (LDEMs) raise a number of technological challenges. This paper addresses the question crew autonomy: as distances increase, communication delays and constraints tend to prevent astronauts from being monitored supported by real time ground control. Eventually, future planetary will necessarily require form astronaut self-scheduling. We study usage compute...