For reasons of phantom material reproducibility, the absorbed dose protocols of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) (TG-51) and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) (TRS-398) have made the use of liquid water as a phantom material for reference dosimetry mandatory. In this work we provide a formal framework for the measurement of absorbed dose to water using ioniz...

A phage, designated CP-51, that carries out generalized transduction in Bacillus cereus and B. anthracis, has recently been isolated from soil. Transducing phages for members of the genus Bacillus have been described previously for B. subtilis and B. licheniformis (2-6). Those that have been best characterized are PBS-1 for B. subtilis (4) and SP-10 and SP-15 for both B. subtilis and B. licheni...

Transducing bacteriophages CP-51 and CP-53 were compared. Unlike CP-51, CP-53 appeared to be a lysogenizing phage. CP-51 gave greater frequencies of co-transduction for linked markers than did CP-53. CP-51 was found to be a larger phage which carried more deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) than CP-53. CP-51 DNA contained about 43% guanine plus cytosine and in addition contained 5-hydroxymethyluracil i...

Four patterns intended to support the development of embedded systems are presented in this paper. These patterns are written for developers of software, and some associated hardware, for the ubiquitous 8051 family of microcontrollers. There are primarily intended to assist software developers who have experience in ‘desktop’ software development (in C or a related language) in the process of a...

The relative rate at which ribosomal protein 51 (rp51) mRNA is synthesized was measured by pulse-labeling cells in vivo with [3H]adenine. Two strains of Saccharomyces cerevisiae were compared: A364A (wild type) and ts368 (rna2), a temperature-sensitive strain in which the level of rp51 mRNA decreases and an intron-containing rp51 precursor RNA increases. When cells were shifted up to the nonper...

background the emergence of multidrug-resistant acinetobacter baumannii complicates the therapy of the related infections. hospital isolates of a. baumannii are usually multidrug-resistant. the problem is compounded by increasing resistance to broad-spectrum antibiotics including carbapenems. objectives the aim of this study was to determine antimicrobial susceptibility patterns and distributio...

We describe the Lutonium, an asynchronous 8051 microcontroller designed for low Et. In 0.18m CMOS, at nominal 1.8 V, we expect a performance of 0.5 nJ per instruction at 200 MIPS. At 0.5 V, we expect 4 MIPS and 40 pJ/instruction, corresponding to 25,000 MIPS/Watt. We describe the structure of a fine-grain pipeline optimized for Et efficiency, some of the peripherals implementation, and the adva...

1 Division of Clinical Chemistry and Biochemistry, Department of Pediatrics, University of Zurich, Steinwiesstrasse 75, 8032 Zurich, Switzerland 2 Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Florida Atlantic University, 777 Glades Road, Boca Raton, FL 33431, USA 3 Department of Biology, University of Konstanz, Universitätsstrasse 10, Postfach M665, 78457 Konstanz, Germany Running title: S100-RAGE...

E. W. Hagley,1 L. Deng,1 M. Kozuma,1,* M. Trippenbach,2,† Y. B. Band,2 M. Edwards,3 M, Doery,1 P. S. Julienne,1 K. Helmerson,1 S. L. Rolston,1 and W. D. Phillips1 1National Institute of Standards and Technology, 100 Bureau Drive Stop 8424, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899-8424 2Departments of Chemistry and Physics, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel 84105 3Department of Physics,...

Patient safety assessment in anaesthesia increasingly relies on the monitoring of frequent but merely undesirable events, like hypotension. We report on the design and implementation of such a monitoring system, where 8032 patients were included over a three years period. Thirty two 'Significant Anaesthetic Events' were defined and their occurrence was routinely collected for each patient. A to...