BACKGROUND United States Army combat engineer (ENG) training is an intense 14-week course designed to introduce new recruits to basic soldiering activities, Army values and lifestyle, and engineering skills and knowledge. The present investigation examined injury rates and injury risk factors in ENG training. METHODS At the start of their training, 1,633 male ENG recruits were administered a ...

A family of endoglucanases belonging to glycoside hydrolase family (GHF) 45 have been isolated from the pine wood nematode Bursaphelenchus xylophilus. Here we describe the purification and characterization of the recombinant enzymes, named Bx-ENG-1, 2, and 3, expressed in Pichia pastoris. The respective molecular masses of purified Bx-ENG-1, 2, and 3 were estimated to be 18, 33-39, and 100-140 ...

OBJECTIVE To present efficacy, safety, and bleeding profile results from the clinical trials that supported the U.S. Food and Drug Administration filing for the approval of a single-rod etonogestrel (ENG) contraceptive implant (Implanon). DESIGN Integrated analysis of 11 international clinical trials. SETTING Contraceptive clinics in U.S., Chile, Asia, and Europe. PATIENT(S) A total of 94...

Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are a new class of porous, crystalline materials with applications in the capture, storage, and separation of gasses. Although much effort has been devoted to understanding the properties of MOFs in powder form, in a realistic system the MOF media will likely be employed as dense compacts, such as pucks or pellets, to maximize volumetric efficiency. In these appl...

Pratylenchus loosi is an important root-lesion nematode that causes damage to tea plantations in Iran and all over the world. The present study reports on characterization evolution of three ß-1,4-endoglucanase genes: Pl-eng-2, Pl-eng-3 Pl-eng-4. gene structure Pl-eng-2 was fully determined with predicted signal peptide devoid linker domain carbohydrate-binding domain, while Pl-eng-4 were only ...

1 Dept of Materials Sci. and Eng., University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL 61801 2 Seitz Materials Research Laboratory, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL 61801 3 Dept of Chemical and Biomolecular Eng., University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL 61801 4 Hitachi High Technologies America Nanotechnology Systems Division, Pleasanton, CA 94588 *Corresponding author, jianzuo@illinoi...

1) Graduate School of Energy Science and Technology, Kyoto University. Yoshida Honmachi, Sakyoku, Kyoto, 606-8501 Japan. 2) Formerly Graduate Student, Graduate School of Eng., Hokkaido University. Now at Nippon Steel Corporation, Ohita Works, Nishi-no-su, Ohita, 870-0992 Japan. 3) Graduate School of Eng., Faculty of Engineering, Hokkaido University, Kita-13Jou, Nishi-8Choume, Kita-ku, Sapporo, ...

Luke BASHFORD , Jing WU, Devapratim SARMA, Kelly COLLINS, Jeff OJEMANN, Carsten MEHRING Imperial College London, Bioengineering, UK; Bernstein Centre & Faculty of Biology & BrainLinks-BrainTools, Univ. of Freiburg, Germany; Bioengineering, Ctr. for Sensorimotor Neural Eng., Dept. of Neurolog. Surgery, Ctr. for Sensorimotor Neural Eng., Univ. of Washington, USA. *Corresponding author LB: luke.ba...

1) Graduate School of Energy Science and Technology, Kyoto University, Yoshida Honmachi, Sakyoku, Kyoto, 606-8501 Japan. 2) Formerly Graduate Student, Graduate School of Eng., Hokkaido University. Now at Nippon Steel Corporation. Ohita Works, Nishi-no-su, Ohita, 870-0992 Japan. 3) Graduate School of Eng., Faculty of Engineering, Hokkaido University. Kita-13Jou, Nishi-8Choume, Kita-ku, Sapporo, ...