Luria and Human (1950) reported the cytological effects on Escherichia coli, strain B, of infection with the T-phages, excepting T5. This provided a more detailed description of the effects already noted by Luria and Palmer (1946) and by Delaporte (1948) who used T4. A study of T2r and T2r+ (Murray et al., 1950) provided little additional information. The observed changes were distinct for each...

Current density profiles in the beam of a xenon ion engine are measured using a long tungsten wire probe to collect ions while making radial traverses through the beam. Between traverses the probe is moved along the axial coordinate to sample the profile at distances of 5-50 cm from the exit plane. Abel inversion of the data provides flux contour maps and integrated current maps as functions of...

In previous work [T6], we employed the approach to Schubert polynomials by Fomin, Stanley, and Kirillov to obtain simple, uniform proofs that the double Schubert polynomials of Lascoux and Schützenberger and Ikeda, Mihalcea, and Naruse represent degeneracy loci for the classical groups in the sense of Fulton. Using this as our starting point, and purely combinatorial methods, we obtain a new pr...

BACKGROUND Interruption of sympathetic innervation to the liver and visceral adipose tissue (VAT) in animal models has been reported to reduce VAT lipolysis and hepatic secretion of very low density lipoprotein (VLDL) and concentrations of triglyceride-rich lipoprotein particles. Whether functional impairment of sympathetic nervous system (SNS) innervation to tissues of the abdominal cavity red...

This study investigated the effects of different anesthesia and analgesia methods on immune function and serum tumor marker levels of critically ill patients undergoing tumor resection surgery. Seventy-six critically ill patients with indications for tumor resection surgery were selected in The Second Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University from September 2015 to August 2016. The patients w...

The aim of this preliminary study is to investigate the changes in phase synchronization in the theta and alpha bands before and during the performance of classical acupuncture on the Sinmun (HT7). The electroencephalogram (EEG) signals from nine healthy young subjects were recorded before and during acupuncture in the "closed-eye" state. The EEG signals were acquired from 19 surface scalp elec...

Pigmentation varies within and between species and is often adaptive. The amount of pigmentation on the abdomen of Drosophila melanogaster is a relatively simple morphological trait, which serves as a model for mapping the genetic basis of variation in complex phenotypes. Here, we assessed natural variation in female abdominal pigmentation in 175 sequenced inbred lines of the Drosophila melanog...

The aim of the study is to investigate the changes of serum leptin and kisspeptin levels in children and adolescents with different pubertal stages and nutritional states. A total of 647 Chinese children and adolescents were recruited, and serum estradiol, testosterone, pituitary gonadotropins, leptin, and kisspeptin levels were measured. The results showed that serum leptin levels of boys in T...

During recent years, interest in the use of bacteriophages as biocontrol agents against foodborne pathogens has increased, particularly for members of the family Enterobacteriaceae, with pathogenic Escherichia coli, Shigella, and Salmonella strains among them. Here, we report the isolation and characterisation of 12 novel T5-like bacteriophages from confiscated food samples. All bacterophages e...