Adolescents who show a tendency to refuse school could also be experiencing poor motivation towards learning. The present work aimed identify profiles of adolescents with refusal behavior (SRB) and examine whether these possible groups differed in academic self-attributions. Participants were 1183 Spanish students (53.7% girls) from 14 17 years old (M = 15.58, SD 1.08). They answered the versio...

Transcriptional activators interact with multisubunit coactivators that modify chromatin structure or recruit the general transcriptional machinery to their target genes. Budding yeast cells respond to amino acid starvation by inducing an activator of amino acid biosynthetic genes, Gcn4p. We conducted a comprehensive analysis of viable mutants affecting known coactivator subunits from the Sacch...

The relative abundance of different groups of sulphate-reducing bacteria (SRB) in faecal DNA collected before and after therapy from patients suffering from Crohn's disease (CD), irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) or ulcerative colitis (UC) has been compared with that from healthy controls. Growth tests revealed that SRB were not more abundant in samples from patients with CD before treatment than ...

Besides computation intensive tasks, the Grid also facilitates sharing and processing very large databases and file systems that are distributed over multiple resources and administrative domains. Although accessing data in the Grid is supported by various lower level tools, end-users find it difficult to utilise these solutions directly. High level environments, such as Grid portal and workflo...

Enzymatic degradation of organic pollutants is a new and promising remediation approach. Peroxidases are one of the most commonly used classes of enzymes to degrade organic pollutants. However, it is generally assumed that all peroxidases behave similarly and produce similar degradation products. In this study, we conducted detailed studies of the degradation of a model aromatic pollutant, Sulf...

The rate and mechanism of diffusion by anionic sulforhodamine B (SRB) dye molecules within organic nanotubes self-assembled from bolaamphiphile surfactants were investigated by imaging fluorescence correlation spectroscopy (imaging-FCS). The inner and outer surfaces of the nanotubes are terminated with amine and glucose groups, respectively; the former allow for pH-dependent manipulation of nan...

The photometric determination of bacterial concentration can be affected by secondary scattering and other interferences. The conventional growth medium for sulfate-reducing bacteria (SRB) has iron that precipitates as iron sulfides, a dark precipitate which is useful to indicate bacterial activity. However, iron hydroxides also precipitate at high pH values and the presence of these precipitat...

Fourteen thermotolerant and thermophilic bacterial isolates from a hot spring in Guanajuato State, Mexico, were tested for their ability to induce the corrosion of carbon steel in monocultures and, in selected cases, in mixed cultures and co-culture with a sulfate-reducing strain, SRB-M. Characterization by 16S rDNA showed that three of the thermophilic isolates (G9a, G9c, and G11) belong to th...

In this paper we introduce the notion of generalized physical and SRB measures. These measures naturally generalize classical physical and SRB measures to measures which are supported on invariant sets that are not necessarily attractors. We then perform a detailed case study of these measures for hyperbolic Hénon maps. For this class of systems we are able to develop a complete theory about th...

The data handling infrastructure being developed at the San Diego Supercomputer Center, includes a range of approaches and technologies for managing data, information and knowledge, specifically: (1) self-instantiating and self-validating persistent archives; (2) data handling system providing ubiquitous access to data resources stored in a variety of systems, epitomized in the development of S...