Transfer of Enterococcus faecalis to a cold temperature (8 degrees C for 4 to 30 h) led to increased expression of 11 cold shock proteins (CSPs). Furthermore, this mesophilic prokaryote synthesized 10 cold acclimation proteins, five of them distinct from CSPs, during continuous growth (4 days) at the same temperature (8 degrees C).

Abstract This study examines how a large negative economic shock impacts marriage rates for young men in the West Bank. Utilizing data from before and after sudden abrupt closure of Israeli labor market Palestinian commuters Bank 2001, our empirical design employs difference-in-difference strategy uses variations localities’ exposure to shock. The reduced employment income adult asymmetrically ...

We present general relativistic solutions for self-similar spherical perturbations in an expanding cosmological background of cold pressure-less gas. We focus on solutions having shock discontinuities propagating in the surrounding cold gas. The pressure, p, and energy-density, μ, in the shock-heated matter are assumed to obey p = wμ, where w is a positive constant. Consistent solutions are fou...

Dense Silicon nitride was investigated to determine the effect of its microstructural parameters and densification on thermo-mechanical properties and thermal stress resistance to fracture initiation during a hot or cold mechanical and thermal shock testing. The different materials and microstructures were obtained by changing the parameters such as the type of the powder, additive, forming p...

BACKGROUND The Pyrrhocoris apterus (Insecta: Heteroptera) adults attain high levels of cold tolerance during their overwintering diapause. Non-diapause reproducing adults, however, lack the capacity to express a whole array of cold-tolerance adaptations and show relatively low survival when exposed to sub-zero temperatures. We assessed the competence of non-diapause males of P. apterus for resp...

One commonly used, yet little understood method for transferring DNA into cells is the temperature shock transformation method (TST) that exposes competent bacteria to successive temperatures (4C and 42C). This study tested the effect of the gene for the heatstable nucleoid structuring protein (H-NS) on the efficiency of the TST method in an effort to find a way to improve the transformation ef...