Pseudomonas fluorescens is a Gram-negative bacterium and a common pathogen to a wide range of farmed fish. In a previous study, we found that the ferric uptake regulator gene (fur) is essential to the infectivity of a pathogenic fish isolate of P. fluorescens (wild-type strain TSS). In the present work, we conducted comparative proteomic analysis to examine the global protein profiles of TSS an...

The removal of Total and Volatile Suspended Solids (TSS/VSS) was studied in a pilot-scale UASB (Upflow Anaerobic Sludge Bed) reactor treating settled sewage under subtropical conditions (Salta, Argentina). The effect of sludge bed height (hsb) and upflow velocity (Vup) on the removal of TSS and VSS was assessed. TSS and VSS removal efficiencies of up to 95% have been achieved when Vup ≤ 0.43 m/...

Saccharomyces cerevisiae RNA polymerase (Pol) II locates transcription start sites (TSS) at TATA-containing promoters by scanning sequences downstream from the site of preinitiation complex formation, a process that involves the translocation of downstream promoter DNA toward Pol II. To investigate a potential role of yeast Pol II transcription in TSS scanning, HIS4 promoter derivatives were ge...

BACKGROUND Many studies have examined the relationship between long-term radiographic damage and physical function. However, it is not known if short-term radiographic progression is also associated with physical function. AIM To investigate the longitudinal relationship between physical function and both the level of radiographic damage and the radiographic progression rate in patients with ...

We report the first case of postoperative acute subdural hemorrhage following extended transsphenoidal surgery (TSS). The patient was a 74-year-old woman with a cystic suprasellar craniopharyngioma with panhypopituitarism. Extended TSS resulted in complete tumor removal. However her consciousness did not recover well. Emergent computed tomography demonstrated a right acute supratentorial subdur...

The three-step search (TSS) scheme has been widely used in block-based motion estimation and has also been incorporated into several motion estimation methods successfully to improve their performance. Instead of adopting the conventional square search pattern used in the TSS scheme, this paper presents a new predictionand affine transformation-based TSS (PATSS) scheme and it leads to a more ef...

We investigate the dynamics of semantic organization using social media, a collective expression of human thought. We propose a novel, time-dependent semantic similarity measure (TSS), based on the social network Twitter. We show that TSS is consistent with static measures of similarity but provides high temporal resolution for the identification of real-world events and induced changes in the ...

An encoding of the set of two-stack-sortable permutations (TSS) in terms of lattice paths and ordered lists of strings is obtained. These lattice paths are called Raney paths. The encoding yields combinatorial decompositions for two complementary subsets of TSS, which are the analogues of previously known decompositions for the set of nonseparable rooted planar maps (NS). This provides a combin...

Treponema socranskii is one of the most frequently found oral spirochaetes in periodontitis and endodontic infections. LPS or glycolipids from bacteria are potent stimulators of innate immune and inflammatory systems. In this study the bioactivity of a phenol/water extract from T. socranskii subsp. socranskii (TSS-P) was analysed. TSS-P showed minimal endotoxicity and no inducing potential for ...

Knowledge of the concentration of total suspended sediment (TSS) in coastal waters is of significance to marine environmental monitoring agencies to determine the turbidity of water that serve as a proxy to estimate the availability of light at depth for benthic habitats. TSS models applicable to data collected by satellite sensors can be used to determine TSS with reasonable accuracy and of ad...