Mobile location sensing applications (MLSAs) represent an emerging genre of applications that exploit Global Positioning System (GPS) technology and facilitate location-based services. The design of MLSAs must incorporate a tradeoff between information accuracy and energy efficiency because GPS technology and data communications are energy expensive and unaffordable for most MLSA platforms, whi...

Mycoplasma capricolum subsp. capripneumoniae (Mccp) is the causative agent of contagious caprine pleuropneumonia (CCPP), a devastating disease of domestic goats. The exact distribution of CCPP is not known but it is present in Africa and the Middle East and represents a significant threat to many disease-free areas including Europe. Furthermore, CCPP has been recently identified in Tajikistan a...

Microbial taxonomy is essential in all areas of microbial science. The 16S rRNA gene sequence is one of the main phylogenetic species markers; however, it does not provide discrimination in the family Vibrionaceae, where other molecular techniques allow better interspecies resolution. Although multilocus sequence analysis (MLSA) has been used successfully in the identification of Vibrio species...

While performing surveillance studies in Oeiras, Portugal, designed to describe the impact of pneumococcal conjugate vaccine on colonization, we observed an increase from 0.7% in 2003 to 5% in 2006 in the prevalence of penicillin resistance (MIC of 2 to 6 mg/liter) among presumptively identified pneumococcal isolates. Although 15 of the 22 penicillin-resistant isolates obtained in 2006 were opt...

A novel speech waveform generation method using a nonmaximally decimated filter bank is proposed, where spectral features of synthetic sounds are created by amplitude modification of subband samples that are pre-decomposed from impulse or noise waveforms. The proposed method uses two synthesis banks of the maximally decimated pseudo quadrature mirror filter (QMF) bank structure which is similar...

Recognition of conventional foreign antigen by T cells is determined by the expression of multiple variable regions of both ol and 3 chains of the T cell receptor (TCR) oe/3 heterodimer. In contrast, there exists a class of antigens that appears to interact with the TCR c~/3 heterodimer through the variable region on the 3 chain (V3), independent of other TCR components, a property that has led...

We synthesized population structure data from three studies that assessed the fine-scale distribution of Vibrionaceae among temporally and spatially distinct environmental categories in coastal seawater and animals. All studies used a dynamic model (AdaptML) to identify phylogenetically cohesive and ecologically distinct bacterial populations and their predicted habitats without relying on a pr...

The cellular basis of neonatally induced T cell tolerance has been investigated in a model system in which usage of a particular TCR V beta segment (V beta 6) is strongly correlated with reactivity to antigens encoded by the Mlsa genetic locus. Expression of V beta 6 by peripheral T cells was virtually abolished in BALB/c (H-2d, Mlsb) mice rendered neonatally tolerant to DBA/2 (H-2d, Mlsa) lymp...

Dear Editor, Machine learning (ML) approaches have been widely employed to enable real-time ML-based stability assessment (MLSA) of large-scale automated electricity grids. However, the vulnerability MLSA malicious cyber-attacks may lead wrong decisions in operating physical grid if its resilience properties are not well understood before deployment. Unlike adversarial ML prior domains such as ...