A filamentous soil bacterium, Streptomyces griseus 2247, carries a 7. 8-Mb linear chromosome. We previously showed by macrorestriction analysis that mutagenic treatments easily caused deletions at both ends of its linear chromosome and changed the chromosome to a circular form. In this study, we confirmed chromosomal circularization by cloning and sequencing the junction fragments from two dele...

Submitted to the Journal of Neurophysiology 03/18/2010 1 2 Subject-specific muscle synergies in human balance control are 3 consistent across different biomechanical contexts 4 5 Gelsy Torres-Oviedo* and Lena H. Ting 6 7 Address: 8 The Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering 9 at Georgia Tech and Emory University 10 313 Ferst Drive 11 Atlanta, GA 30322-0535 12 13 *Current addres...

The present study employs a cheminformatics approach to screen the diverse array of secondary metabolites from selected spices such as cardamom, ginger and turmeric belonging to the family Zingiberaceae. One thousand six hundred and sixty four (1664) chemical descriptors were calculated for 404 secondary metabolites. They were sieved and funneled through various filters, passed through all the ...

This paper won this year’s competition for the “Best Paper in Preventive Medicine by a Medical Student.” Since its inception in 1992, this award has been co-sponsored by the American College of Preventive Medicine, the Association of Teachers of Preventive Medicine, the Association of American Medical Colleges, and the Ulrich and Ruth Frank Foundation for International Health. The monetary priz...

To determine the need and appropriate timing of catheter removal in patients with candidemia, the records for 404 patients with cancer and central venous catheters (CVCs) who developed candidemia during the period of 1993-1998 were retrospectively reviewed. Of the total 404 cases of candidemia, 241 (60%) were due to a primary source, 111 (27%) were catheter related, and 52 (13%) were secondary ...

There are no laws preventing a host government from seizing the capital of a foreign direct investment in its borders and then denying any compensation for the foreign investor. Why then do we not see many more expropriations of investor capital by host governments? Compiling a database of expropriations within the minerals sectors of developing countries, we show that there is punishment for e...

The negotiation of even the most straightforward real-world contracts tends to be quite complex. A contract with only 25 distinct issues with two alternatives each presents the parties with more than 33 million possible contracts, far too many to be evaluated exhaustively within feasible time constraints. Furthermore, contract issues that exhibit high levels of interdependence result in highly ...

PURPOSE: This technical note provides a procedural framework for evaluating the economic values of wetlands. Important economic concepts on supply/demand and valuation are presented as they relate to the economic valuea supported or provided by wetlands. The framework presented here can be used to evaluate economic values within the Section 404 process, while recognizhg the difficulties of wetl...

6 Sponsoring Committee: AHB45: Traffic Flow Theory and Characteristics 7 Co-Sponsoring Committee: ABJ80: Statistical Methods 8 9 10 11 Authors: 12 13 Dwayne Henclewood, Ph.D. 14 Senior Consultant, Booz Allen Hamilton 15 [email protected] 16 17 Wonho Suh, Ph.D.* 18 Research Engineer, Georgia Institute of Technology 19 [email protected] 20 21 Michael O. Rodgers, Ph.D. 22 Adjunct Pro...

Object-oriented programming (OOP) has been revolutionizing software development and maintenance. When applied to simulation of manufacturing systems, OOP also provides an opportunity for developing new ways of thinking and modeling. In this paper, we identify existing large-scale, persistent OOP-based research efforts focusing on manufacturing system simulation, and present an integrating frame...