*Corresponding author: Mailing address: Department of Virology, Toyama Institute of Health, 17-1 Nakataikoyama, Imizu-shi, Toyama 939-0363, Japan. Tel:+81-76656-8143, Fax: +81-766-56-7326, E-mail: masatsugu. [email protected] Fig. 1. Comparison of the HA titers of pandemic influenza A (H1N1) 2009 virus isolates obtained during the 2009–2010 and 2010–2011 seasons in Toyama Prefecture, Jap...

Isolation, purification and physicochemical properties of the antibiotic complex YA-56, a family of phleomycin-bleomycin group, are described. The antibiotic YA-56 complex was found to be composed mainly of two active components named YA-56X and Y. These components were clearly differentiated from the reported phleomycins and bleomycins by their physicochemical properties. However, by direct co...

Thirty years ago Bourrely-Soffer-Wu (BSW) investigated an impact picture description of p−p and p̄−p elastic scattering with success. For this anniversary, a short review of the main features of this picture will be presented with its evolution over the years. The future experiments at the LHC collider will provide decisive tests for the impact picture at high energy. In the year 1978, BSW propo...

Wei Gong,1,2 Mark A. Faist,2,3 Nicholas John Ekins-Daukes,2 Zheng Xu,1 Donal D. C. Bradley,2 Jenny Nelson,2 and Thomas Kirchartz2,* 1Key Laboratory of Luminescence and Optical Information, Ministry of Education and Institute of Optoelectronics Technology, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing 100044, People’s Republic of China 2Department of Physics and Centre for Plastic Electronics, Imperial C...

All feces samples (n = 2,390) sent to the Bacteriological Laboratory, Göteborg, Sweden over 43 days were, in addition to the standard procedure, cultivated to detect Clostridium difficile by using a special selective medium. C. difficile was found in 81 of the 2,390 samples (3%). These 81 samples represented 56 patients. Fifty of the 56 patients had diarrhea. In 20 of the 56 patients (36%), Sal...

A new complex of phleomycin-bleomycin group antibiotics, YA-56, was isolated from the culture broth of a streptomycete designated as strain MCRL 0387 and identified as a new variety of Streptomyces humidus Nakazawaand Shibata in Imamura et al.9 1956. Ultra-violet irradiation of strain MCRL0387 gave a high-yielding mutant which formed blue aerial mycelium instead of the grayish aerial mycelium o...

In his New Science,1 Giambattista Vico provided us with four axioms, which if followed, could help prevent us from falsifying our knowledge of history and our understanding of ourselves.2 Although all four axioms are relevant, the last two-"the conceit of nations" and "the conceit of scholars"-are particularly important as reminders to American legal scholars who all too often fall prey to the ...