Flame-retardant polymeric coatings with high limiting oxygen index (LOI) were prepared by combining inorganic mineral huntite (H5) and additives synthesized in the present work into a formulation. In order to improve dispersion of Mg- (and Ca)-based H5 particles, containing phosphonium acidic groups employed homogenize fillers polymer matrix. Specific blend combinations commercial matrix Ecrovi...

We report resonance-enhanced multiphoton ionization spectra of the isotopologues fluorobenzene-h5 and fluorobenzene-d5. By making use of quantum chemical calculations, the changes in the wavenumber of the vibrational modes upon deuteration are examined. Additionally, the mixing of vibrational modes both between isotopologues and also between the two electronic states is discussed. The isotopic ...

Worldwide spreading of H5 and H7 highly pathogenic influenza viruses of the avian origin, which periodically infect and kill humans without prior adaptation, poses a constant threat of the new pandemic. The effectiveness of the pandemic prevention completely depends on the quality of the existing influenza vaccines. Typical methods of the vaccine production from the antigenically relevant strai...

During a 3-year surveillance study for avian influenza virus (AIV) infections at the Jeziorsko reservoir in central Poland, 549 oropharyngeal or cloacal swabs from 366 birds of 14 species belonging to 3 orders (Anseriformes, Charadriiformes and Gruiformes) were tested. AIV was detected in 14 birds (3.8%): Common Teals (12x), Mallard (1x) and Garganey (1x). Three potentially dangerous H5 AIV wer...

We studied the prevalence of influenza A virus in wintering waterfowl from the Central Flyway on the Gulf Coast of Texas. Of 5,363 hunter-harvested migratory and resident waterfowl and wetland-associated game birds sampled during 3 consecutive hunting seasons (September-January 2006-07, 2007-08, and 2008-09), real-time reverse transcription-PCR detected influenza A matrix sequences in 8.5% of s...

A monoclonal antibody (MoAb) H5 (IgG2b) was obtained by fusion between SP2/0, mouse myeloma cell line and spleen cells from BC3Fl mice immunized with HEL, a erythroleukemia cell line. MoAb H5 precipitated a 26 kilodalton (KD) polypeptide in reduced condition. It reacted with platelets, monocytes, eosinophiles, 13% of lymphocytes, thymocytes and colony-forming unitsgranulocyte/monocyte (CFU-GM),...

We prove that all SYM theories that have a quantum modified moduli spaceM defined by a single constraint equation have trivial homotopy groups πj(M) for j = 0, 1, 2, 3 and 4. This implies that none of these theories admit skyrmions or vortexes -a fact that had only been proved for supersymmetric QCD with Nf = Nc and Sp(2N) with 2N + 2 fundamentalswhereas those of them with a nontrivial H5(M) ad...

Here, we report the diversity of amantadine-resistant mutants among avian influenza A viruses with pandemic potential (H5, H6, H7, and H9 hemagglutinin subtypes). Drug-resistant variants were not detected among 1979--83 isolates, whereas 31.1% of H5 and 10.6% of H9 strains from Southeast Asia isolated in 2000-04 carried mutations in M2 protein. In North America, resistant variants occurred amon...

Among the erythrocytes of chicken, trout, carp, and sucker, the relative proportion of the lysine-rich histone H5 varied from 20 to 0% of the total histones. Following digestion of nuclear chromatin with micrococcal nuclease, each of them displayed a longer DNA repeat length and greater repeat length heterogeneity than found in liver chromatin. Fish erythrocytes possessed similar repeat lengths...