A series of 119 Mycobacterium avium complex isolates were subjected to clarithromycin susceptibility testing using microplates containing 2,3-diphenyl-5-thienyl-(2)-tetrazolium chloride (STC). Among 119 isolates, 114 (95.8%) were susceptible to clarithromycin and 5 were resistant according to the new and the standard method. STC counts the low cost and reduces the number of procedures needed fo...

Recent data indicate that plasticity protocols have not only synapse-specific but also more widespread effects. In particular, in synaptic tagging and capture (STC), tagged synapses can capture plasticity-related proteins, synthesized in response to strong stimulation of other synapses. This leads to long-lasting modification of only weakly stimulated synapses. Here we present a biophysical mod...

In this paper we examine the performance of a spacetime coded (STC) OFDM system. As an example, two emerging WLAN standards (IEEE 802.11a and ETSI Hiperlad2) are modified to accommodate the STC technique. Performance results using statistical multi-element channel models are compared with those using state-of-the-art indoor MIMO channel measurements. We conclude that the gap between the ideal s...

This paper investigates the performance of two diversity techniques for relay networks with the Amplify-Forward (AF) protocol. A distributed Interleave-Division-Multiplexing Space-Time Code (IDM-STC) is compared with Cyclic Delay Diversity (CDD) in an OFDM based system. The aim of this paper is to figure out advantages and drawbacks of these two quite different approaches for various scenarios....

We address (i) the onset of spatiotemporal chaos (STC) induced by the hyperbolic structure in a weakly perturbed nonlinear Schrijdinger equation, and (ii) its effective stochastic dynamics (ESD). We obtain the following new results: ( 1) a very small number (two for our system) of linearly unstable modes is sufficient to trigger the onset of STC as characterized by an exponential decay in space...

Abstract This paper provides an overview of BUPTTeam’s system participated in the Short Text Conversation (STC) task of Chinese at NTCIR-12. STC is a new NTCIR challenging task which is defined as an IR problem, i.e., retrieval based a repository of postcomment pairs from Sina Weibo. In this paper, we propose a novel method to retrieve post result from the repository based on the following four...

The nucleotide sequence of genome segment A cDNA of the STC strain of infectious bursal disease virus (IBDV) was determined and compared with sequences of the homologous genome segment of the 002-73 strain of IBDV and the Jasper strain of infectious pancreatic necrosis virus (IPNV). The STC-IBDV genome segment A was determined to be 3262 base pairs (bp), which is close to the estimated total le...

Bicarbonate secretion in the intestine (duodenum) of marine fish has been suggested to play a major role in regulation of calcium availability for uptake. However, while the end process may lead to carbonate precipitation, regulation of transport of calcium and/or bicarbonate may actually result in fine-tuning of calcium availability for transport. To test this hypothesis, sea bream (Sparus aur...

This study aimed (1) at determining the levels of the fungal toxin sterigmatocystin (STC) in the feed and urine of cattle and (2) at evaluating the effects of supplementing the feed with a mycotoxin adsorbent (MA) on STC concentrations in urine. Two herds of female Japanese Black cattle were used in this study. The cattle in each herd were fed a standard ration containing rice straw from differ...

Dietary protein is a major stimulant for cholecystokinin (CCK) secretion by the intestinal I cell, however, the mechanism by which protein is detected is unknown. Indirect functional evidence suggests that PepT1 may play a role in CCK-mediated changes in gastric motor function. However, it is unclear whether this oligopeptide transporter directly or indirectly activates the I cell. Using both t...