“Bacterial infections are becoming increasingly resistant to existing antibiotics, and as the number of patients who have succumbed to these infections rises, the number of new antibiotics being developed continues to plummet.” This extract from a letter addressed to President Barack Obama by the president of Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) attests to the urgent need for new thera...

DNA Data Bank of Japan (DDBJ) (http://www.ddbj.nig.ac.jp) newly collected and released 12,927,184 entries or 13,787,688,598 bases in the period from July 2005 to June 2006. The released data contain honeybee expressed sequence tags (ESTs), re-examined and re-annotated complete genome data of Escherichia coli K-12 W3110, medaka WGS and human MGA. We also systematically evaluated and classified t...

Presently a new accelerator complex is being planned at CERN, which will replaced the ageing Proton Synchrotron (PS). A high-power160 MeV H linac (Linac 4) will replace the present 50 MeV proton linac injector [1], a 5 GeV Superconducting Proton Linac (SPL) will replace the 1.4 GeV PS Booster (PSB) [2] and a 50 GeV synchrotron (PS 2) will replace the 26 GeV PS [3]. A tentative layout of the pla...

There has been a lot of interest in the use of randomisation tests as a pedagogic alternative to hypothesis tests (Zieffler, 2012), although proposals to use randomisation tests in research are far from new (e.g. Hooton, 1991) with Good (2000) being an updated classic text in this area. This article will present a classroom activity that demonstrates the randomisation tests as a means of unders...

this study investigated the effects of short-term fasting and re-feeding on hematological and immunological parameters of mesopotamichthys sharpeyi (günther, 1874) fingerlings. after 2 weeks of adaptation, 360 fish with an average initial body weight of 6.13±0.40g were distributed in nine 300-l circular fiberglass tanks provided with aeration system following a completely randomized design. the...

conclusions the bacterial isolates exhibited strong biofilm formation potential, while the extracts of acacia arabica significantly inhibited biofilm formation among the isolates and, therefore, could be executed in the development of cost-effective biofilm inhibitor medicines. results pseudomonas aeruginosa (kc417303-05), staphylococcus hemolyticus (kc417306), and staphylococcus hominis (kc417...