A total of 300 patients undergoing various types of urological procedures was studied for incidence of bacteremia. An osmotically stabilized anaerobic broth with sodium polyanethol sulfonate (Liquoid) yielded more positive blood cultures than any other culture system and was also the best system by far for recovery of anaerobes. The membrane filter showed faster growth and, therefore, facilitat...

Proof. Clearly (A ∩ B)[G] ⊆ A[G] ∩ B[G]. Let us show the opposite inclusion. It is enough to deal with ordinals. Note that B[G]∩ V = B, since Q ⊆ B. Let δ ∈ A[G]∩B[G]∩On = A[G]∩B ∩On. Pick a canonical name δ ∼ ∈ A such that δ ∼ = δ. It is of the form ⟨⟨qi, τ̌i⟩ | i < ρ ≤ |Q|⟩, where τi’s are in B and ⟨qi | i < ρ⟩ is a maximal antichain. Now, δ ∼ ∈ B, since |Q|B ⊆ B. So, δ ∼ ∈ A∩B. Hence, δ = δ ∼...

Itay Neeman found in [7] a new way of iterating proper forcing notions and extended it in [8] to א2. In [5] his construction for א1 ([7]) was generalized to semi-proper forcing notions. We apply here finite structures with pistes in order extend the construction to higher cardinals. In the final model a very weak form of SPFA will hold. 1 Basic definitions and main results The following two def...

Tubulin genes are intimately associated with cell division and cell elongation, which are central to plant secondary cell wall development. However, their roles in pollen tube polar growth remain elusive. Here, a TUA1 gene from Picea wilsonii, which is specifically expressed in pollen, was isolated. Semi-quantitative RT-PCR analysis showed that the amount of PwTUA1 transcript varied at each sta...

The rate of CO2 evolution was measured in synchronous cultures of the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe growing in a minimal medium. The rate of CO2 evolution was found to double sharply at about the time of nuclear division (0.75 of the way through the cell cycle). For the remainder of the cell cycle the rate remained constant. Addition of inhibitors of DNA synthesis or nuclear division ...