The UK has had a commitment to loan guarantee schemes since 1981 when it introduced the Small Firms Loan Guarantee (SFLG) scheme address access debt finance issues for smaller firms. Over last 40 years, its support been unwavering, and in Covid-19 crisis, once again turned guarantees as means of supporting firms through crisis-induced slump trading activities. Of three core schemes, Bounce Back...

We argue that study of the cross section of coherent photo(electro) production of vector mesons off nuclear targets provides an effective method to probe the leading twist hard QCD regimes of color transparency and perturbative color opacity as well as the onset of black body limit (BBL) in the soft and hard QCD interactions. In the case of intermediate energies we use the Generalized Vector Do...

Zooplankton in the ocean respond to visual and hydro-mechanical cues such as small-scale shear in turbulent flow. In addition, they form strong aggregations where currents intersect sloping bottoms. Strong and predictable tidal currents over a sill in Knight Inlet, Canada, make it an ideal location to investigate biological behaviour in turbulent cross-isobath flow. We examine acoustic data (38...

Four chromogenic urine culture media were compared to culture on blood agar, MacConkey agar, and CLED (cysteine-, lactose-, and electrolyte-deficient) agar for detection of uropathogens in 1,200 urine specimens. After 2 nights of incubation, 96% of all isolates were recovered on blood agar, 96% were recovered on CLED agar, 92% were recovered on CPS ID2, 96% were recovered on CHROMagar Orientati...

Group A streptococci and enterococci were identified by two L-pyrrolidonyl-beta-naphthylamide (PYR) hydrolysis tests. One uses Minitek PYR disks (BBL Microbiology Systems, Cockeysville, Md.); the other uses a swab impregnated with PYR reagent. Both tests and Strep-A-Chek (EY Laboratories, San Mateo, Calif.), a commercially available PYR test, were compared with conventional methods. The PYR met...

Abstract The influence of a sloping bottom and stratification on the evolution an oceanic boundary layer (BBL) in presence mean flow is explored. As complement to earlier study by Ruan et al. ( https://doi.org/10.1175/JPO-D-18-0079.1 ) examining Ekman arrest downslope regime, this paper describes turbulence BBL dynamics during upslope regime. In enhanced develops response transport suppresses t...