Many illnesses and infections are exacerbated and/or caused by biofilms. Neisseria gonorrhoeae, the etiologic agent of gonorrhea, is frequently asymptomatic in women, which can lead to persistent infection. Persistent infection can result in pelvic inflammatory disease, tubo-ovarian abscesses, infertility, and ectopic pregnancy. N. gonorrhoeae has been shown to form biofilms over glass, primary...

UNLABELLED Oxidative phosphorylation using multiple-component, membrane-associated protein complexes is the most effective way for a cell to generate energy. Here, we systematically investigated the multiple protein-protein interactions of the denitrification apparatus of the pathogenic bacterium Pseudomonas aeruginosa During denitrification, nitrate (Nar), nitrite (Nir), nitric oxide (Nor), an...

Match Bias in Wage Gap Estimates Due to Earnings Imputation Author(s): Barry T. Hirsch and Edward J. Schumacher Reviewed work(s): Source: Journal of Labor Economics, Vol. 22, No. 3 (July 2004), pp. 689-722 Published by: The University of Chicago Press on behalf of the Society of Labor Economists and the NORC at the University of Chicago Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/383112 . A...

Collaborating with People Like Me: Ethnic Coauthorship within the United States Author(s): Richard B. Freeman and Wei Huang Source: Journal of Labor Economics, Vol. 33, No. S1, US High-Skilled Immigration in the Global Economy (Part 2, July 2015), pp. S289-S318 Published by: The University of Chicago Press on behalf of the Society of Labor Economists and the NORC at the University of Chicago St...

Neisseria gonorrhoeae has been shown to form biofilms during cervical infection. Thus, biofilm formation may play an important role in the infection of women. The ability of N. gonorrhoeae to form membrane blebs is crucial to biofilm formation. Blebs contain DNA and outer membrane structures, which have been shown to be major constituents of the biofilm matrix. The organism expresses a DNA ther...

As an alternative to ageing at home in the community, naturally occurring retirement communities (NORCs) have great potential facilitate place; however, they not attracted much research attention. This study conducts overview of NORCs, aiming examine previous a comprehensive manner order explore how NORCs impact place, with goal guiding future research. The presented here employs content analys...

Denitrification is an anaerobic process performed by several soil bacteria as an alternative to aerobic respiration. A key-step in denitrification (the N-Nbond is made) is catalyzed by nitric oxide reductase (NOR); 2NO + 2e + 2H → N2O + H2O. NOR from Paracoccus denitrificans is a member of the heme copper oxidase superfamily (HCuOs), where the mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase is the classical...

Face recognition is important in human identification. The biological recognition technique acts as a good method and broad applications in security areas. This work presents a method to improve the face recognition accuracy using a combination of Principal Component Analysis (PCA), and Wavelet Transform. Wavelet Transform is used to decompose the input image with different levels and rearrange...