Infusions of donor peripheral blood T cells can induce durable remissions of Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) lymphomas complicating marrow grafts, but they contain alloreactive T cells capable of inducing graft-versus-host disease. EBV-specific T-cell lines or clones avoid this problem but require 30 to 40 days of culture to establish. To accelerate the generation of EBV-specific T cells, we tested wh...

Neutral-ionic transitions (NITs) occur in organic charge-transfer (CT) crystals of planar π-electron donors (D) and acceptors (A) that form mixed stacks . . . D+ρA−ρD+ρA−ρD+ρA−ρ . . . with variable ionicity 0 < ρ < 1 and electron transfer t along the stack. The microscopic NIT model presented here combines a modified Hubbard model for strongly correlated electrons delocalized along the stack wi...

Colletotrichum lindemuthianum, the causative agent of bean anthracnose, is one of the most common pathogens leading to expressive damage to plants beyond presenting noticeable variability. The knowledge on vegetative compatibility groups (VCGs) is of particular interest in asexual fungi as they subdivide the population in groups that can exchange genetic information via heterokaryosis and the p...

In vitro assembly or complementation of a hybrid assimilatory nitrate reductase was attained by mixing a preparation of nitrate-induced N. crassa mutant nit-1 specifically with acid-treated (pH 2.5) bovine milk or intestinal xanthine oxidase, rabbit liver aldehyde oxidase, or chicken liver xanthine dehydrogenase. The complementation reaction specifically required induced nit-1, the only nitrate...

Reduction in enteric methane (CH4) emissions from cattle can be achieved through use of feed additives, which often results increased emission hydrogen (H2). The objective this study was to investigate vitro effects a known sink, fumaric acid, combination with either 2 inhibitors, the macroalga Asparagopsis taxiformis or nitrate, on CH4 and H2 production, degradability, pH, redox potential. A c...

Abstract We compare two welfare programs: the universal basic income (UBI) and negative tax (NIT). Under a linear system, we show that (i) NIT can replicate allocation of UBI exactly by providing an identical marginal effective schedule, (ii) budget is always smaller than UBI. According to our quantitative model, which calibrated approximate wealth distributions in United States, optimal pay ev...

OBJECTIVES Young people are often exposed to high music levels which make them more at risk to develop noise-induced symptoms such as hearing loss, hyperacusis, and tinnitus of which the latter is the symptom perceived the most by young adults. Although, subclinical neural damage was demonstrated in animal experiments, the human correlate remains under debate. Controversy exists on the underlyi...

The DE values of corn grain for pigs will differ among corn sources. More accurate prediction of DE may improve diet formulation and reduce diet cost. Corn grain sources ( = 83) were assayed with growing swine (20 kg) in DE experiments with total collection of feces, with 3-wk-old broiler chick in nitrogen-corrected apparent ME (AME) trials and with cecectomized adult roosters in nitrogen-corre...