PreMIS is a pre-hospital medical records system funded by the State of North Carolina and developed by the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The system uses web data entry, mobile hand held devices, and batch import to collect incident records from EMS providers throughout the state of North Carolina. This data is then used for bio-terrorism su...

Floating platform concepts offer the prospect of harvesting offshore wind energy at deep water locations for countries with a limited number of suitable shallow water locations for bottom-mounted offshore wind turbines. The floating spar-buoy concept has shown promising experimental and theoretical results. Although various codes for a detailed simulation exist the purpose of this work is to el...

Phenol biodegradation in batch systems using Cupriavidus taiwanesis 187 has been experimentally studied. To determine the various parameters of a kinetic model, combinations of rearranged equations have been evaluated using inverse polynomial techniques for parameter estimation. The correlations between lag phase and phase concentration suggest that considering phenol inhibition in kinetic anal...

ExoM is a beta(1-4)-glucosyltransferase involved in the assembly of the repeat unit of the exopolysaccharide succinoglycan from Sinorhizobium meliloti. By comparing the sequence of ExoM to those of other members of the Pfam Glyco Domain 2 family, most notably SpsA (Bacillus subtilis) for whom the three-dimensional structure has been resolved, three potentially important aspartic acid residues o...

12.1 Abstract 179 12.2 Introduction 180 12.3 Lipophilic Allelochemicals from Benthic Cyanobacteria: Photosynthetic Inhibitors from Fischerella 182 12.3.1 Structure Elucidation of FischereIla Allelochemicals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 183 12.3.2 Transfer of Allelochemicals in Benthic Cyanobacteria 184 12.3.3 FischereIlins, Biological Herbicides 184 12.3.4 Environmental Factors Affect...

Acetylxylan esterase (AXEII; 207 amino acids) from Penicillium purpurogenum has substrate specificities toward acetate esters of d-xylopyranose residues in xylan and belongs to a new class of alpha/beta hydrolases. The crystal structure of AXEII has been determined by single isomorphous replacement and anomalous scattering, and refined at 0.90- and 1.10-A resolutions with data collected at 85 K...

Little is known of protein expression in Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis and how this contributes to pathogenesis. In the present study, proteins from both membranes and cytosol were prepared from two strains of M. avium subsp. paratuberculosis, i.e., laboratory-adapted strain K-10 and a recent isolate, strain 187, obtained from a cow exhibiting clinical signs of Johne's disease. So...

DEK is an abundant chromatin protein in metazoans reaching copy numbers of several millions/nucleus. Previous work has shown that human DEK, a protein of 375 amino acids, has two functional DNA-binding domains, of which one resides in a central part of the molecule and contains sequences corresponding to the scaffold attachment factor-box (SAF-box) domain as found in a growing number of nuclear...

Rhenium-185/187 solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance (SSNMR) experiments using NaReO(4) and NH(4)ReO(4) powders provide unambiguous evidence for the existence of high-order quadrupole-induced effects (HOQIE) in SSNMR spectra. Fine structure, not predicted by second-order perturbation theory, has been observed in the (185/187)Re SSNMR spectrum of NaReO(4) at 11.75 T, where the ratio of the Lar...