Klebelsbergite is verified as a valid mineral species, in museum specimens from the type locality, Baia Sprie (Felscib6nya), Rumania. Klebelsbergite occurs as pale yellow to orange-yellow crystals radially grown on stibnite. Wet-chemical analysis of synthetic klebelsbergite, supported by electron microprobe analyses of natural material, gives Sb 71.78, S 4.65, }{2O 2.69, O 20.88Vo (by di-fferen...

The circumscription of bacterial species is a complex task. So far, DNA-DNA hybridization (DDH), 16S rRNA gene sequencing, and multiocus sequence typing analysis (MLSA) are currently the preferred techniques for their genetic determination. However, the average nucleotide identity (ANI) analysis of conserved and shared genes between two bacterial strains based on the pair-wise genome comparison...

A case is reported which supports the principle that ACTH precursors best characterise so-called ectopic ACTH-syndrome, which should therefore more accurately be referred to as ectopic ACTH-precursor syndrome.

Though a seemingly simple notion, defining a clear research question or hypothesis at the conception of a clinical study can be a daunting task for investigators. Through the TRILOGY ACS study, Bakal and colleagues illustrate that subtle changes in the primary outcome definition foraclinical trialmayresult in substantial changes in theanalytical methods, altering the overall interpretation of t...

Using media with low water activity, a large numbers of aureobasidium-like black yeasts were isolated from glacial and subglacial ice of three polythermal glaciers from the coastal Arctic environment of Kongsfjorden (Svalbard, Spitsbergen), as well as from adjacent sea water, sea ice and glacial meltwaters. To characterise the genetic variability of Aureobasidium pullulans strains originating f...

Incorporation of the 21st amino acid, selenocysteine, into proteins is specified in all three domains of life by dynamic translational redefinition of UGA codons. In eukarya and archaea, selenocysteine insertion requires a cis-acting selenocysteine insertion sequence (SECIS) usually located in the 3'UTR of selenoprotein mRNAs. Here we present comparative sequence analysis and experimental data ...

In order to use transactional memory (TM) in place of locks, it is necessary to design linguistic mechanisms that enable transactions to achieve the same outcomes as lock-based code. The mechanisms need not match their lock-based equivalents exactly, but must provide the same abilities “in spirit,” so that programmers can (perhaps with nontrivial code rewriting) achieve the same behaviors and g...

Robustness has been recognized as a key issue in the analysis and design of control systems for the last two decades. During the last decades numerous papers dealing with the design of static robust output feedback control schemes to stabilize uncertain systems have been published ([1], [3], [4], [6], [8], [10], [12], [13], [15], [19], [21]). Various approaches have been used to study the two a...

Recent studies of multisensory integration compel a redefinition of fundamental sensory processes, including, but not limited to, how visual inputs influence the localization of sounds and suppression of their echoes.