Overview of Persistent Rubella Infection and Autism Induction in Pregnancy Idea 3 Why Might Vaccine-Strain Rubella Virus Persist in Some Females? 3 Questions about RA27/3 Strain of Rubella Vaccine 4 What Data in the Literature & What Facts May Support these Ideas? 4-9 Concluding Remarks & Requests 9 A Final Data Point & Questions 10 References 11 Appendix A: Information provided from CBER/FDA o...

We show the existence of globally stable quasistatic evolutions for a rateindependent material model with elastoplasticity and incomplete damage, in small strain assumptions. The main feature of our model is that the scalar internal variable which describes the damage affects both the elastic tensor and the plastic yield surface. It is also possible to require that the history of plastic strain...

We report an infection with Tula virus in June 2015, leading to hospitalisation, in a patient living approximately 60 km east of Paris with no previous remarkable medical history. Clinical symptoms were limited to a fever syndrome with severe headache. The main laboratory findings included thrombocytopenia and elevated transaminase levels. Based on S (small) gene sequence analysis, the strain a...

Wolbachia bacteria are ubiquitous intracellular bacteria of arthropods. Often considered reproductive parasites, they can benefit certain host species. We describe a new Wolbachia strain from Leptopilina victoriae, a Drosophila wasp. The strain is closely related to Wolbachia from Culex sp. Located to the posterior poles of oocytes, it manipulates its host's reproduction by inducing a male deve...

The vaginal microbiome plays an important role in human health and species of bacteria have been associated with reproductive disease. Strain-level variation is also thought to be important, but the diversity, structure evolutionary history strains not as well characterized. We developed validated approach measure strain from metagenomic data based on SNPs within core genomes for six bacteria: ...

Many liquid metals exposed to air develop an oxide film on their outer surface. This film is sufficiently solid-like to provide mechanical stability to small liquid metal droplets, yet weak enough to allow the droplets to be malleable. These properties are useful in both micro-electronics and microfluidics; however, little is known about how to characterize them. Here we probe the elastic, yiel...

To estimate the impact of porcine parvovirus (PPV) vaccines on the emergence of new phenotypes, the population dynamic history of the virus was calculated using the Bayesian Markov chain Monte Carlo method with a Bayesian skyline coalescent model. Additionally, an in vitro model was performed with consecutive passages of the 'Challenge' strain (a virulent field strain) and NADL2 strain (a vacci...

Article history: Received 2 January 2015 Received in revised form 22 October 2015 Accepted 23 October 2015 Available online 27 October 2015 The hot deformation behaviour of Inconel alloy IN718 was studied in the temperature range of 950–1100 °C and at strain rates of 0.01 and 1 s with a view to understand the microstructural evolution as a function of strain rate and temperature. For this purpo...