Prolate-oblate shape coexistence close to the ground state in strongly-deformed proton-rich A?120 nuclei is reported for first time. One of four bands 119Cs, built on a 11/2? at 670 keV, consists nearly degenerate signature partners, and has properties which unequivocally indicate strongly-coupled ?h11/2[505]11/2? configuration associated with oblate shape. Together decoupled ?h11/2[541]3/2? ba...

In this report we describe the detection and duration of fecal shedding of Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coil (STEC) O157 and non-O157 in symptomatic and asymptomatic cases during four events occurred among children in day-care centers in Argentina. In each event, the cases were identified among children, family contacts and staff members of the Institution. The isolates were characterized ...

We construct a complete 11–span of H(4, 4) admitting the group PSL2(11). This span turns out to be associated with the unique Hadamard design H11 and the so-called Petersen design.

Background: Cowpea is a major pulse crop in India. Developing cowpea cultivars with high yield and sustainable protein content contributes to food nutritional security. Hybridization followed by careful selection of genotypes from the early segregating populations may produce final cultivar coupled content. Methods: The genetic material used present investigation were derived crosses three i.e....

The high-temperature oxidation of hot-work tool steel AISI H11 was studied. investigated in two conditions, the soft annealed condition, and hardened tempered condition. First, calculations compositions oxide layers formed were carried out using CALPHAD method. samples oxidised a chamber furnace simultaneous thermal analysis instrument, for 100 h temperature range between 400 °C 700 °C. first u...

Analysis of the economic effects of constitutional rules has made substantial progress over the last decade. This survey provides an overview of this rapidly growing research area and also discusses a number of methodological issues and identifies underresearched areas. It argues that the next logical step of Positive Constitutional Economics is to endogenize constitutional rules. JEL classific...

The massless spectrum of an orientifold of the IIB string theory is computed and shown to be identical to F theory on the Calabi-Yau threefold with h11 = 51 and h21 = 3. Target space duality is also considered in this model.

We describe an outbreak of Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli O26:H11 infection in 20 patients (median age, 2 years). The source of the infection was an organic fermented beef sausage. The source was discovered by using credit card information to obtain and compare customer transaction records from the computer systems of supermarkets.

A total of 514 Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) isolates from diarrheic and healthy cattle in Spain were characterized in this study. PCR showed that 101 (20%) isolates carried stx1 genes, 278 (54%) possessed stx2 genes, and 135 (26%) possessed both stx1 and stx2. Enterohemolysin (ehxA) and intimin (eae) virulence genes were detected in 326 (63%) and in 151 (29%) of the isolates, r...