Introduction: Diffuse pulmonary ossification was firstly described by Luschka in 1856. It has two distinct patterns with different clinical, radiological, and histological associations: nodular (NPO) dendriform (DPO). Dendriform is the presence of branching metaplastic osseous spicules usually bone marrow elements. can occur as idiopathic or association chronic lung diseases. Idiopathic DPO a r...

six-sigma has some measures which measure performance characteristics related to a process. in most of the traditional methods, exact estimation is used to assess these measures and to utilize them in practice. in this paper, to estimate some of these measures, including defects per million opportunities (dpmo), defects per opportunity (dpo), defects per unit (dpu) and yield, a new algorithm ba...

James W. Dalling*, Adam S. Davis, Brian J. Schutte and A. Elizabeth Arnold Department of Plant Biology, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, IL 61801, USA; Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Unit 0948, DPO AA 34002-0948, USA; United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Global Change and Photosynthesis Research Unit, Urbana, Illinois, IL 61801, USA; and Div...

Noelle G. Beckman*†, Claudia Neuhauser and Helene C. Muller-Landau Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, 100 Ecology, 1987 Upper Buford Circle, Saint Paul, MN 55108, USA; Biomedical Informatics and Computational Biology, University of Minnesota-Rochester, 300 University Square, 111 S Broadway, Rochester, MN 55904, USA; and Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute...

Mitochondrial (mt) genomes are intensively studied in Ascomycota and Basidiomycota, but they are poorly documented in basal fungal lineages. In this study, we sequenced the complete mtDNA of Rhizophagus sp. DAOM 213198, a close relative to Rhizophagus irregularis, a widespread, ecologically and economical relevant species belonging to Glomeromycota. Unlike all other known taxonomically close re...

Angular dioxygenation has been established as the crucial step in dibenzofuran degradation by Brevibacterium sp. strain DPO 1361 (V. Strubel, K. H. Engesser, P. Fischer, and H.-J. Knackmuss, J. Bacteriol. 173:1932-1937, 1991). The same strain utilizes biphenyl and fluorene as sole sources of carbon and energy. The fluorene degradation sequence is proposed to be initiated by oxidation of the flu...

We develop a notion of stochastic rewriting over marked graphs – i.e. directed multigraphs with degree constraints. The approach is based on double-pushout (DPO) graph rewriting. Marked graphs are expressive enough to internalize the ‘no-dangling-edge’ condition inherent in DPO rewriting. Our main result is that the linear span of marked graph occurrence-counting functions – or motif functions ...

Broad-range amplification and sequencing of the bacterial 16S rRNA gene directly from clinical specimens are offered as a diagnostic service in many laboratories. One major pitfall is primer cross-reactivity with human DNA which will result in mixed chromatograms. Mixed chromatograms will complicate subsequent sequence analysis and impede identification. In SYBR green real-time PCR assays, it c...

Traumatic spinal cord injury (SCI) results in the formation of a fibrous scar acting as a growth barrier for regenerating axons at the lesion site. We have previously shown (Klapka et al., 2005) that transient suppression of the inhibitory lesion scar in rat spinal cord leads to long distance axon regeneration, retrograde rescue of axotomized cortical motoneurons, and improvement of locomotor f...

A strongly absorbing and significantly luminescing diimine ligand, N,N -diphenyl-p-(benzyl-1,3,4-oxadiazole)-2,2 -bipyridine (DPO-bpy), incorporating -conjugated oxadiazole linkage units and remote triphenylamine groups has been synthesized and characterized, as have the corresponding mononuclear metal complexes, fac-(DPO-bpy)Re(CO)3Cl and fac-(DPObpy)Mn(CO)3Br. The rhenium complex was structur...