Minima in geomagnetic activity (MGA) at Earth at the ends of SC23 and SC22 have been identified. The two MGAs (called MGA23 and MGA22, respectively) were present in 2009 and 1997, delayed from the sunspot number minima in 2008 and 1996 by ∼1/2–1 years. Part of the solar and interplanetary causes of the MGAs were exceptionally low solar (and thus low interplanetary) magnetic fields. Another impo...

Department of Building and Industrial Production Engineering, University CEU Cardenal Herrera Avda.Seminario s/n, 46113, Moncada, Valencia, Spain Email: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] (*corresponding author), web page: http://www.uchceu.es Departamento de Ingeniería Mecánica y de Materiales, Universidad Politécnica de Vale...

The 3996 mothers delivered at Dudley Road Hospital, Birmingham, in 1979 were analysed for their ethnic origins. Social classes IV and V predominated in all groups. A high proportion of Indian mothers fell into the low-risk group based on age and parity but had the highest stillbirth and perinatal mortality rates (15.1 and 27.5/1000 respectively) and infants of low mean birth weight (2986 g). El...

3 Arrigo, K.R. et al. (1998) Primary production in Southern Ocean waters. J. Geophys. Res. 103, 15587–15600 4 Karnovsky, N. et al. (2007) The impact and importance of production in polynyas to top-trophic predators: three case histories. In Polynyas (Smith, W.O., Jr,, and Barber, D.G., eds), pp. 391–410, Elsevier 5 Smith, W.O., Jr and Nelson, D.M. (1985) Phytoplankton bloom produced by a recedi...

MBL production has been increasingly reported among Pseudomonas aeruginosa, which is an important nosocomial multidrug resistant pathogen. 2,3 Metallo beta lactamase (MBL) belongs to Ambler class B enzymes. With the help of divalent cation zinc as cofactor for enzymatic activity, they hydrolyze carbapenem as-well-as other blactam antibiotics. The substrate spectrum of this enzyme is quite broad...

Klaus van Benthem,1 Guolong Tan,2 Roger H. French,2,3 Linda K. DeNoyer,4 Rudolf Podgornik,5,6 and V. Adrian Parsegian6 1Oak Ridge National Laboratory, One Bethel Valley Road, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831-6031, USA 2Materials Science Department, University of Pennsylvania, 3231 Walnut St,. Philadelphia, Pennyslvania 19104, USA 3DuPont Company, Central Research, E356-384, Experimental Station, Wilm...