The crystal structure of dicobalt(II) divanadium(V) disel-enium(IV) undeca-oxide, Co₂V₂Se₂O₁₁, exhibits a three-dimensional framework, the building units being distorted CoO₆ octa-hedra and VO₅ square pyramids arranged so as to form alternate chains along [010]. The framework has channels along [100] and [010] in which the two Ψ-SeO₃E (site symmetries m; E being the 4s² lone electron pair of Se...

This paper estimates separately the components of scattering waves generated in cylinder-body model for body area networks. For the evaluation, scattering field formulations in relation to uniform cylinderand slab-body models are provided, and the reliability of the analyses is testified by the comparison with results computed by the finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) method. Creeping waves, ...

Staphylococcal food poisoning represents the most prevalent foodborne intoxication worldwide. It is caused by oral intake of enterotoxins preformed by Staphylococcus aureus in food. The relevance of newly described enterotoxins in outbreaks of staphylococcal food poisoning is controversially discussed. Although the staphylococcal enterotoxins SEG, SEI, SEM, SEN, and SEO elicit emesis in a monke...

BACKGROUND Hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (HFRS) is an important infectious disease in Hebei Province. At present, cases from the northeast regions of the province account for >80% of the total incidences. However, studies that examine the region-specific genetic variations of the Hantavirus (HV), the causative pathogen for HFRS, have been lacking. METHODS Rodents were collected in nor...

In this paper we examine whether information risk affects underwriter switching in a seasoned equity offering (SEO) process. Building on previous research, we hypothesize that SEO firms and underwriters associate with one another by mutual choice, and firms with a low degree of information risk tend to match up with prestigious underwriters. Using a sample of SEO firms in China and employing ac...

DEDICATION To my loving family iii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS First of all, I would like to thank my advisor, Professor Nenad Medvidovic, for his kind support and guidance during my Ph.D. course. Whenever I was encountered by some difficult problems in my research, he always encouraged me and kindly helped me solve those problems. He was also the only person who gave me a research opportunity, when I had...

We measured potential rates of bacterial dissimilatory reduction of SeO(4) to Se in a diversity of sediment types, with salinities ranging from freshwater (salinity = 1 g/liter) to hypersaline (salinity = 320 g/liter and with pH values ranging from 7.1 to 9.8. Significant biological selenate reduction occurred in all samples with salinities from 1 to 250 g/liter but not in samples with a salini...

A vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV) pseudotype bearing hantavirus envelope glycoproteins was produced and used in a neutralization test as a substitute for native hantavirus. The recombinant VSV, in which the enveloped protein gene (G) was replaced by the green fluorescent protein gene and complemented with G protein expressed in trans (VSVDeltaG*G), was kindly provided by M. A. Whitt. 293T cell...

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