A four-compartment (4C) model of body composition was used as a criterion to determine the accuracy of three-compartment (3C) and two-compartment (2C) models to estimate percent body fat (%BF) in prepubertal and pubertal boys (genital I & II, n = 17; genital III & IV, n = 7) and girls (breast I & II, n = 8; breast III & IV, n = 15). The 3C water-density (3C-H2O) and 3C mineral-density models, d...

The fidelity of full vector seismic data acquired with systems of three-component (3C) receivers that are rigidly attached to an acquisition device is evaluated. The acquisition device is designed for rapid and cost-effective imaging of the upper 30m of the earth's surface. Multi-mode analysis of full vector seismic data has the potential to provide engineers and geophysicists with near-surface...

We have determined the cleavage specificity and the crystal structure of the 3C protease of enterovirus 68 (EV68 3C(pro)). The protease exhibits a typical chymotrypsin fold with a Cys...His...Glu catalytic triad; its three-dimensional structure is closely related to that of the 3C(pro) of rhinovirus 2, as well as to that of poliovirus. The phylogenetic position of the EV68 3C(pro) between the c...

Quantitation of i>-/3~liy butvratc dehydrogenase (BDH) in normal rat hepatocytes was compared with that in two rat hepatoma cell lines, H4-II-EC3 and RLT-3C. BDH activity in normal rat hepatocyte mito chondria was 321 nmol/min/mg, which was greatly reduced to 10.7 nmol/ min/mg and 1.7 nmol/min/mg in H4-II-EC3 and RLT-3C cell mitochon dria, respectively. The cell growth rate and L-[35Slmet...

BACKGROUND The 2014-2015 influenza season was distinguished by an epidemic of antigenically-drifted A(H3N2) viruses and vaccine components identical to 2013-2014. We report 2014-2015 vaccine effectiveness (VE) from Canada and explore contributing agent-host factors. METHODS VE against laboratory-confirmed influenza was derived using a test-negative design among outpatients with influenza-like...

We selected a sample of a dozen blazars which are the prime candidates for simultaneous multi-wavelength observing campaigns in their outburst phase. We searched for optical outbursts, intra-day variability and short term variability in these blazars. We carried out optical photometric monitoring of nine of these blazars in 13 observing nights during our observing run October 27, 2006 − March 2...

We report the detection of multiple components of X-ray emission from the two FR-II radio galaxies 3C 223 and 3C 284, based on new XMM-Newton observations. We attribute the detected X-ray emission from the lobes of both sources to inverse-Compton scattering of cosmic microwave background photons. With this model, we find that the magnetic field strength in the lobes is at the equipartition valu...

The Brn-3 subfamily of POU-domain transcription factor genes consists of three highly homologous members-Brn-3a, Brn-3b, and Brn-3c-that are expressed in sensory neurons and in a small number of brainstem nuclei. This paper describes the role of Brn-3c in auditory and vestibular system development. In the inner ear, the Brn-3c protein is found only in auditory and vestibular hair cells, and the...

We present optical spectroscopy of the host galaxies of four quasi-stellar objects (QSOs)—PG 1444 407, PKS 2349 147, 3C 323.1, and 4C 31.63—having a redshift range . The spectra were obtained at 0.1 ≤ z ≤ 0.3 the Keck Observatory with the Low Resolution Imaging Spectrograph instrument offset 2 –4 from the nucleus at several position angles in each galaxy. The objects close to 3C 323.1 and PKS 2...