BACKGROUND & AIMS Since 2009/10, a 10- and a 13-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV) are available, but only the 10-valent vaccine is now being used for the children in the Netherlands. As the vaccines differ in number of serotypes, antigen concentration, and carrier proteins this study was designed to directly compare quantity and quality of the antibody responses induced by PCV10 and P...

Thirty-one bison heifers were randomly assigned to receive saline or a single vaccination with 10(10) CFU of Brucella abortus strain RB51. Some vaccinated bison were randomly selected for booster vaccination with RB51 at 11 months after the initial vaccination. Mean antibody responses to RB51 were greater (P < 0.05) in vaccinated bison after initial and booster vaccination than in nonvaccinated...

We will describe measurements of the beam in the Fermilab Booster during the first five milliseconds. Most of the particle losses in the Booster are over after the first few milliseconds. At high intensity of 4 × 10 the transmission is 75%. Such high beam loss can be a limiting factor for future high repetition rate operation of the Booster. The evidence, although indirect, suggests that the lo...

Contaminants of emerging concern (CECs) are widespread in the water cycle. Their levels disinfected waters usually low, as they may transform into CEC disinfection byproducts (DBPs) during processes or partially removed previous treatment steps. The occurrence DBPs real has been scarcely addressed, although their presence be relevance circular economy scenarios, and thus deserves further study ...

The NSLS-II Injector System Diagnostics will provide instrumentation in the linac, Booster, Transfer Lines and Beam Dumps for measuring key beam parameters. These instruments will be adequate for staged commissioning of NSLS-II injectors, and will allow sufficient beam diagnostics for tune-up and top-up operations. This paper summarizes the status of the NSLS-II injector system diagnostics, foc...

Individual particle orbits in a beam will respond to both external focusing and accelerating forces as well as internal space-charge forces. The external forces will reflect unavoidable systematic and random machine errors, or imperfections, such as jitter in magnet and radio-frequency power supplies, as well as translational and rotational magnet alignment errors. The beam responds in a self-c...

Individual particle orbits in a beam will respond to both external focusing and accelerating forces as well as internal space-charge forces. The external forces will reflect unavoidable systematic and random machine errors, or imperfections, such as jitter in magnet and radio-frequency power supplies, as well as translational and rotational magnet alignment errors. The beam responds in a self-c...

Most existing chlorine contact tanks suffer from serious drawbacks of dead spaces, short circuiting, and solids accumulations that subsequently putrefy and exert undue chlorine demand. Hydraulic model studies of chlorine contact tanks indicate that air agitated, baffled contact units have better flow characteristics than just baffled units or air agitated contact tanks without baffles. Air agit...