We report the case of a 76-year old Filipino male who presented with pain, redness, and blurring of vision of the right eye. Corneal scraping was done and sent to the St. Luke's Research and Biotechnology Group for detection and identification of the infectious agent. Morphological detection was performed by allowing the organism from the scraping to grow in 1.5% non-nutrient agar plate with he...

A numerical investigation of a scraped surface heat exchanger was undertaken using the commercial CFD code FLUENT in order to characterize the flow patterns for Newtonian and Non-Newtonian highly viscous fluids where experimental measurements are difficult to obtain. Simulation results were validated with experimental shear rates measured using electrochemical method (Mabit et al., 2003) as wel...

G. Manfredi1, S. Hirstoaga2, S. Devaux3, E. Havlíčková4, D. Tskhakaya5 1 Institut de Physique et Chimie des Matériaux, Strasbourg, France 2 INRIA and Institut de Recherche en Mathématiques Avancées, Strasbourg, France 3 Max-Planck-Institut für Plasmaphysik, Garching, Germany 4 Culham Centre for Fusion Energy, Abingdon, United Kingdom 5 Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Innsbruck,...

Many efforts have been devoted to establish in vitro cell culture systems. These systems are designed to model a vast number of in vivo processes. Cell culture systems arising from human endometrial samples are no exception. Applications range from normal cyclic physiological processes to endometrial pathologies such as gynecological cancers, infectious diseases, and reproductive deficiencies. ...

Recent IHEP Protvino experiments show efficiencies of crystal-assisted slow extraction and collimation of 85.3±2.8%, at the intensities of the chan-neled beam on the order of 10 12 proton per spill of ∼2 s duration. The obtained experimental data well follows the theory predictions. We compare the measurements against theory and outline the theoretical potential for further improvement in the e...

Between June and September 1944 there were 875 African soldiers admitted to the 37th General Hospital at Accra in the Gold Coast. Of these there were 10 who showed genital oedema in which filariasis was suspected. The oedema affected the penis in all of these patients and the scrotum also in 7 of them. On each an examination was made for microfilariae, by means of a day-and-night blood film to ...

Pfirsch-Schlüter fluxes in tokamaks are shown to drive strong poloidal and toroidal shear flows that are localized to the edge and scrape-off layer in the presence of temperature gradients and finite bootstrap current in the pedestal. Within a magnetohydrodynamic model, the effect of these flows on core rotation and their role in the magnetic configuration dependence of the power threshold for ...

Herpotrichiellaceae spp. are known to be opportunistic human pathogens. Here, we report the ~28.46-Mb draft genome of Herpotrichiellaceae sp. UM 238, isolated from human skin scraping. The UM 238 genome was found to contain many classes of protective genes that are responsible for fungal adaptation under adverse environmental conditions.