Identification of emerging bacterial pathogens generally results from a chain of events involving microscopy, serology, molecular tools, and culture. Because of the spectacular molecular techniques developed in the last decades, some authors think that these techniques will shortly supplant culture. The key steps that led to the discovery of emerging bacteria have been reviewed to determine the...

The macro-commands of the PSTricks package offer impressive additional capabilities to (L)TEX users, by giving them direct access to much of the power of PostScript, including full support for color. The purpose of this article is to outline the implementation of a few of the features of PSTricks (version 0.94).

This paper presents some features of the Vaucanson platform. We describe some original algorithms on weighted automata and transducers (computation of the quotient, conversion of a regular expression into a weighted automaton, and composition). We explain how complex declarations due to the generic programming are masked from the user and finally we present a proposal for an XML format that all...

The work presented here addresses a long-standing conceptual gap in flash file system verification: We map an abstract graphbased representation down to the flat blocks of bytes of the storage medium. Specifically, we consider grouping of file system objects into atomic transactions together with layout, allocation and garbage collection of on-flash storage space. Two major concerns guide the d...

I have alwayswanted to be adoctor.Manyaspects ofmedicine enthralled me: research, diagnosis, and the possibility of improving a patient’s quality of life, in particular.Walking the corridors of a hospital felt exhilarating. At 15 I had a volunteer position at the local hospital. Although my assignments were answering phones, directing visitors, and, my favorite, delivering goods topatients, I f...

It’s a depressingly familiar sight when an oil well blows or a tanker runs aground: thousands of stranded, helpless animals wallowing in cloying crude oil. ‘Birds are often used as the poster children for the deadly effects of oil’, says Ivan Maggini from Western University, Canada, recalling the shocking images of struggling animals that accompanied the catastrophic Deepwater Horizon oil spill...

We study a model in which a special role for safe, short-term assets in facilitating financial intermediation encourages the private sector to issue these assets to supplement the public supply of safe, short-term assets, even though their role in providing liquidity can be put in jeopardy during financial panics that lead agents to question the low-risk nature of these assets. During “normal” ...

Compartmentalization of chemical reactions inside cells are a fundamental requirement for life. Encapsulins self-assembling protein-based nanocompartments from the prokaryotic repertoire that present highly attractive platform intracellular compartmentalization by design. Using single-molecule Förster resonance energy transfer and 3D-MINFLUX analysis, we analyze fluorescently labeled encapsulin...