The planthopper Pentastiridius leporinus (Hemiptera: Cixiidae) is the major vector of a nonculturable plant-pathogenic gamma-3 proteobacterium associated with a disease of sugar beet called syndrome "basses richesses" (SBR). The bacterium, here called SBR bacterium, belongs to the Arsenophonous clade, which includes mostly insect-associated facultative symbionts. Assays using field-collected pl...

Previous work in our group has demonstrated that mouse salivary gland has the highest concentration of salivary-derived VEGF protein compared with other organs and is essential for normal palatal mucosal wound healing. We hypothesize that salivary VEGF plays an important role in maintaining the integrity of the gastrointestinal mucosa following small bowel resection (SBR). Thirty-five 8- to 10-...

SBR does not depend on the measurement duration, whereas SNR increases with the measurement duration and SBR. These are well known results and do not need further discussion (1-2). However, these simple expressions also show an interesting connection between signal count rate (s) and background count rate (b) illustrated in Fig. S6. Fig. S6 shows curves of constant SNR at a given SBR, as a func...

The Search-Browse-Repeat (SBR) mode of Web usage is becoming increasingly important as the size of the Web increases and the coverage of search engines expands. However, Web browsers do little to support SBR, with consequences for search success rates. We characterise the main features of SBR, suggest criteria that would help alleviate the problems associated with it, and outline a prototype br...

Sequencing batch reactor (SBR) is one of several periodically operated, suspended-growth activated sludge system. It has an advantage for nitrogen removal which is difficult to remove with conventional system. This paper reviewed the nitrogen removal performance in SBR for several different industrial wastewaters and discussed the factors which may affect the treatment performance. Several modi...

We consider the problem of sorting a permutation by reversals (SBR), calling for the minimum number of reversals transforming a given permutation of f1; : : : ; ng into the identity permutation. SBR was inspired by computational biology applications , in particular genome rearrangement. We propose an exact branch-and-bound algorithm for SBR. A lower bound is computed by solving a linear program...

In this paper, graphene oxide/styrene-butadiene rubber (GO/SBR) composites with complete exfoliation of GO sheets were prepared by aqueous-phase mixing of GO colloid with SBR latex and a small loading of butadiene-styrene-vinyl-pyridine rubber (VPR) latex, followed by their co-coagulation. During co-coagulation, VPR not only plays a key role in the prevention of aggregation of GO sheets but als...

We have investigated the influence of the high centrifugal pressure caused by fast magic-angle spinning (MAS) on the molecular motion of styrene–butadiene rubbers (SBR) filled with SiO2 (SBR/Si composite) though solid-state magic-angle spinning nuclear magnetic Resonance (1H MAS NMR) measurements. Because the 1H–1H dipolar interaction of elastomers is weak compared with that of glassy polymers,...

Dynamic nuclear polarization (DNP) at low temperature (1.2 K) and high magnetic field (3.3 T) was applied to a contrast variation study in small-angle neutron scattering (SANS) focusing on industrial rubber materials. By varying the scattering contrast by DNP, time-of-flight SANS profiles were obtained at the pulsed neutron source of the Japan Proton Accelerator Research Complex (J-PARC). The c...