Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Vibrio cholerae showed a strong positive chemotactic response towards rum distillery wastewaters (mostos) and a high oxygen uptake rate in the presence of this complex substrate. Rum slops stimulated only motility in Aeromonas hydrophila and Escherichia coli. The A. hydrophila and E. coli isolates were unable to oxidize mostos significantly.

The 'rigid-unit mode' (RUM) model requires unit blocks, in our case tetrahedra of SiO(4) groups, to be rigid within first order of the displacements of the oxygen ions. The wavevectors of the lattice vibrations, which obey this rigidity, are determined analytically. Lattices with inversion symmetry yield generically surfaces of RUMs in reciprocal space, whereas lattices without this symmetry y...

From March to September 2003, the Biological Field Station conducted weekly pre-construction water quality monitoring at three sites selected in the United States Army Corps of Engineers Upper Susquehanna River Watershed-Cooperstown Area Ecosystem Restoration Feasibility Study And Integrated Environmental Assessment. The sites monitored were Daley, Palumbo and Rum Hill (the latter serving as a ...

Phonological variation in speech production can neutralize phonemic distinctions. In some cases, the alternations also create lexical ambiguity, as in the sentence “A quick rum picks you up,” where the underlined sequence could be interpreted as either rum or as a place assimilated form of run. Three cross-modal priming experiments examined the perceptual resolution of these ambiguities. In a n...