Sixteen Mediterranean pluriparous buffaloes were subdivided into two uniform groups of eight animals. The average weight of the two groups at the start of the trial was 671.2 and 656.7 kg. The number of days from calving were 33.4 and 33.3, and the average milk production was 12.73 and 12.33 kg/d. The trial lasted for 114 days, and was divided into two sub-periods of 58 and 56 days. The two die...

In this issue of the Journal, Yeh et al [1] revisit the importance of magA in Kleb-siella pneumoniae causing pyogenic liver abscess, as well as its exact role in serotype K1 capsule formation. The mucoviscosity-associated gene A (magA) of K. pneumo-niae was originally discovered in 2002 by me and my colleagues [2, 3] in tissue-invasive K. pneumoniae strains causing primary liver abscess complic...

The data used came from two trials undertaken under the same climatic conditions (spring-summer). In both trials pluriparious buffaloes were utilized similar in weight, body condition score, and milk production from the previous year. From the first trial the data used was from the sub-period 23-88 DIM provided by seven animals fed ad libitum with diet A (6.69 MJ/kg DM; 158.30 g/kg of crude pro...

Strains studied were from (1) an outbreak of infection at St Thomas's Hospital in 19771; (2) an outbreak at the Luton and Dunstable Hospital in 1979, affecting at least 48 patients; (3) patients at Hammersmith Hospital in 1980, where a cluster of infections caused by the strain was found during a larger outbreak caused by a different multiply resistant klebsiella. Most isolates were from urine,...

We present a measurement of the evolution of the stellar mass function (MF) of galaxies and the evolution of the total stellar mass density at 0 < z < 5, extending previous measurements to higher redshift and fainter magnitudes (and lower masses). We use deep multicolor data in the Fors Deep Field (FDF; I-selected reaching IAB ∼ 26.8) and the GOODS-S/CDFS region (K-selected reaching KAB ∼ 25.4)...

We present an ultrafast opacity calculator that we name HELIOS-K. It takes a line list as an input, computes the shape of each spectral line and provides an option for grouping an enormous number of lines into a manageable number of bins. We implement a combination of Algorithm 916 and GaussHermite quadrature to compute the Voigt profile, write the code in CUDA and optimise the computation for ...

The voltage-dependent anion channel (VDAC) mediates and gates the flux of metabolites and ions across the outer mitochondrial membrane (OMM) and is a key player in cellular metabolism and apoptosis. Here we characterized the binding of nucleotides to human VDAC1 (hVDAC1) on a single-residue level using NMR spectroscopy and site-directed mutagenesis. We find that hVDAC1 possesses one major bindi...

Symmetric advective-di usive forms of the Stokes and incompressible Navier-Stokes equations are presented. The Galerkin least-squares method for advective-di usive equations is used for both systems and is related to other stabilized methods previously studied. The presentation reveals that the convergence analysis for advective-di usive equations, as applied before to a linearized form of the ...

In studies of vowel perception and production, the formants of the signal are usually estimated using Linear Predictive Coding (LPC) analysis. The order of the LPC filter is typically estimated by starting with a heuristic value (e.g. the sampling frequency in kHz) and adjusting it in a trialand-error manner. This method is adequate when analyzing a few sounds, but it is cumbersome for studies ...

Hasenaka , T. and Carmichael , I.S.E., 1985. The c inder cones of Michoac~n -Guana jua to , cen t ra l Mexico: the i r age, vo lume and d i s t r i bu t ion , and magma discharge rate . J. Volcanol. Geotherm. Res., 25: 104-124 . The Michoac~in-Guana jua to Volcanic Field ( M G V F ) in cen t ra l Mexico con t a in s over 1000 late Q u a t e r n a r y volcanic centers , of which a p p r o x i m ...