Three commercial chromogenic agar media were evaluated for Streptococcus agalactiae screening in 200 vaginal swabs from pregnant women. The sensitivity and specificity were 94.3% and 100% for Granada medium (bioMérieux), 100% and 90.3% for Brilliance GBS medium (Thermo Fisher Scientific), and 100% and 98.8% for ChromID STRB medium (bioMérieux), respectively.

Rationally designed polypeptides with similar molecular structures but varying patterns of hydrogen bonding between the side groups have been synthesized and demonstrated to possess distinct solubility and thermal behaviors. Further balancing the ratio of both isopropylamine and ethylenediamine side groups endows the random copolymer with reversible thermo-sensitivity.

SYNOPSIS: Coupling photo- and thermo- catalytic CO 2 hydrogenation is a promising way to convert with higher sustainability. Herein, the redox pathway demonstrated as main reaction for at 200 °C over Au/TiO . The plasmonic enhancement mechanism proven be facilitated oxygen vacancy generation. • Plasmon enhances production rate by ? 318 % Redox CO. DRIFTS analyses prove spontaneous dissociation ...

In this work, a thermo-responsive and cross-linked fluoropolymer poly(2,2,2-Trifluoroethyl) methacrylate (PTFEMA) was successfully prepared by reversible addition-fragmentation chain transfer (RAFT) mediated aqueous polymerization with a thermo-responsive diblock poly(dimethylacrylamide-b-N-isopropylacrylamide) (PDMA-b-PNIPAM) that performed a dual function as both a nanoreactor and macro-RAFT ...

Abstract. In a previous paper [1] the inverse problem for wave crests was introduced and a solution strategy for two-wave interactions was given. Here these solutions are actually constructed, in particular for the cases with small interaction angle, moderate phase shifts, and/or symmetric interactions. Two detailed examples are presented and analyzed. The sensitivity of the method is investiga...

in this study, copper chromite (cucr2o4) nanoparticles was prepared by inverse co-precipitation method. in this method, cupric nitrate trihydrate, (cu (no3)2.3h2o) and chromium nitrate nonahydrate, (cr (no3) 3.9h2o) with a mole ratio of 1:2 were used. characterization of cucr2o4 nanoparticles was performed by fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (ft-ir), raman spectroscopy, x-ray diffraction...