Background: Modulation of the commensal oral microbiota constitutes a promising preventive/therapeutic approach in healthcare. The use prebiotics for maintaining/restoring health-associated homeostasis has become an important research topic.Aims: This study hypothesised that vitro 14-species biofilms can be modulated by (in)direct stimulation beneficial/commensal bacteria with new potential pre...

this article studies sir walter scott’s use of the family-as-nation trope in ivanhoe and anne of geierstein. the importance of this trope in his figuration of nationhood is discerned by carrying out a close reading of the texts and placing them in their historical context, which primarily consists of a comparison with edmund burke and maria edgeworth. consequently, his position is revealed as b...

In 1996 the center-of-mass energy of the electron-positron collider LEP was increased above the threshold of two times the W-boson mass (MW) which made it possible to produce pairs of W-bosons in ee collisions and thus opened the opportunity for a precision determination of the W-boson mass and measurements of its couplings and decay branching ratios. A detailed review of measurements of the W-...

As compared with related HLA-identical sibling donors, bone marrow transplantation (BMT) with phenotypically HLA ABDR-compatible unrelated donors is associated with increased mortality. This may be due to hidden HLA incompatibilities not detected by conventional typing. We have analyzed 44 unrelated patient-donor pairs who were matched for HLA-A, -B, and -DR by routine tissue typing. Our compre...

The electroproduction of ρ mesons is studied at HERA with the H1 detector at high Q and high |t|. Cross sections are measured as a function of Q, W and t. The W dependence of the γ∗p cross section is observed to increase with Q from values compatible with soft Pomeron exchange at low Q to a hard dependence at large Q. Spin density matrix elements are measured and their dependence is compared wi...

Using methods developed by W. Singer and J. P. May, we describe a systematic approach to showing that many spectral sequences, determined by a filtration on a complex whose homology has an action of operations, possess a compatible action of the same operations. As a consequence, we obtain W. Singer’s result for Steenrod operations on Serre spectral sequence and extend A. Bahri’s action of Dyer...

We report that transfusions of RT1u Wistar-Furth (WF) spleen cells prevented spontaneous diabetes in the RT1u BB/W rat while RT1b Buffalo rat spleen cells did not. In addition, donor origin WF T lymphocytes were detected in nondiabetic-susceptible BB/W recipients 5 mo after transfusion. Survival of donor-origin lymphocytes may provide the cellular mechanism by which major histocompatibility com...

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A stacked double-layer (SDL) thermopile-based infrared sensor, which comprised of 96 thermocouples on a suspended membrane, has been designed and fabricated with a CMOS-compatible process. The thermoelectric properties were characterized, and responsivity (Rs) of 202.8 V W−1 and detectivity (D∗) of 2.85∗108 cm Hz1/2 W−1 for a SDL thermopile were derived. (Some figures may appear in colour only ...

The elastic energy of a thin film Ωh of thickness h with displacement u : Ωh → R is given by the functional E(u) = ∫ Ωh W (∇u). We consider materials whose energy density W is linearly frame indifferent and vanishes on two linearized wells which are compatible in the plane but incompatible in the thickness direction. We prove compactness of displacement sequences u : Ωh → R satisfying E(u) ≤ Ch...