A new peer-reviewed study in England shows that children have an increased danger of getting cancer if they live within three to five kilometers (2 to 3 miles) of certain kinds of industrial facilities.[1] The study, by E.G. Knox and E.A. Gilman, finds that the danger is greatest within a few hundred yards of pollution sources and tapers off with distance. The incidence of childhood cancers per...

Graduate Institute of Electronics Engineer 106, Taiwan Department of Chemistry, National Taiwan Department of Physics, National Sun Yat-Se Institute of Physics, National Chiao Tung U Institute of Optoelectronic Sciences, Nationa Taiwan Center for Emerging Material and Advanc Taipei 106, Taiwan Institute of Atomic and Molecular Sciences, Department of Materials Science and Engin 360, Taiwan Depa...

UNLABELLED Despite substantial morbidity associated with respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) infection, there is no licensed vaccine. MEDI-559 is a live attenuated intranasal vaccine candidate being developed for prevention of lower respiratory illness due to RSV in young children. This randomized, placebo-controlled study evaluated safety of MEDI-559 in healthy, RSV-seronegative children. MEDI-5...

Toxic Cu (II) effect on cytochrome b(559) under aerobic photoinhibitory conditions was examined in two different photosystem II (PSII) membrane preparations active in oxygen evolution. The preparations differ in the content of cytochrome b(559) redox potential forms. Difference absorption spectra showed that the presence of Cu (II) induced the oxidation of the high-potential form of cytochrome ...

Membranes isolated from heterocysts and vegetative cells of Anabaena 7120 were assayed for content of cytochrome f, cytochrome b-563, cytochrome b-559(HP), cytochrome b-559(LP), and cytochrome aa(3) by use of reduced-minus-oxidized difference spectra. The level of cytochrome aa(3) in heterocyst membranes was 4 to 100 times higher than that in vegetative cells of Anabaena 7120 or other species o...

Cytochrome b 559 (Cyt b 559) is one of the essential components of the Photosystem II reaction center (PSII). Despite recent accomplishments in understanding the structure and function of PSII, the exact physiological function of Cyt b 559 remains unclear. Cyt b 559 is not involved in the primary electron transfer pathway in PSII but may participate in secondary electron transfer pathways that ...

In this project, I have studied the performance gain of MIMO systems. There are two types of gain provided by the MIMO channels: one measures the increase of the capacity by the number of degrees of freedom of the channel (spatial multiplexing gain), and the other improvement of the reliability by the diversity gain. Most of previous works focus on either one of these two types of gain by desig...

Photosystem II reaction centers comprised of the Dl, D2 and cytochrome b-559 polypeptides were isolated from welldefined oxygen-evolving reaction center preparations using either a combination of LiClO, and dodecyhnaltoside, or Triton X-100 alone. Yields of chlorophyll and cytochrome b-559 for both preparative methods were compared, and pigment contents were compared based on 2.0 b-559 per reac...