<h4>Background</h4> <p>Induced sputum (IS) may provide diagnostic information about the etiology of pneumonia. The safety of this procedure across a heterogeneous population with severe pneumonia in low- and middle-income countries has not been described.</p> <h4>Method...

Energy conversion of sunlight by photosynthetic organisms has changed Earth and life on it. Photosynthesis arose early in Earth's history, and the earliest forms of photosynthetic life were almost certainly anoxygenic (non-oxygen evolving). The invention of oxygenic pho...

The usually assumed two categories of costs involved in climate change policy analysis, namely abatement and damage costs, hide the presence of a third category, namely adaptation costs. This dodges the determination of an appropriate level for them. Including adaptatio...

AbstractWe show that the elementary theory of the structure of the Solovay degrees of computably enumerable reals is undecidable.

<jats:title>ABSTRACT</jats:title> <jats:p>Current efforts are aimed at optimizing the protective efficacy of <jats:italic>Mycobacterium bovis</jats:italic> BCG by the use of vaccine combinations. We have recently demonstrated that the protection afforded by BCG alone is...

Abstract ESP3 is an open-source software to process single-beam and split-beam echosounder data. Multiple displays, analysis tools parameterizable algorithms are available to the user to scrutinise their data, and a scripting module allows applying these to entire surve...

<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> <jats:p>T-2 toxin (T-2), a naturally occurring mycotoxin that often accumulates in aquatic animals via contaminated feed, is toxic to animals, including humans. In this study, six groups of shrimp (n = 30 shrimps/group) were given T-2 i...

Summary: Accelerometer data collected from captive fur seals and sea lions swimming were used to determine the best method for processing raw data to achieve the highest accuracy of stroke rate.

As parameters are varied, a boundary equilibrium bifurcation (BEB) occurs when an equilibrium collides with a discontinuity surface in a piecewise-smooth system of ordinary differential equations. Under certain genericity conditions, at a BEB, the equilibrium either tra...

<jats:p>We have examined the expression, postnatal ontogeny, and localization of mouse GH (mGH) and its relative expression during pregnancy, lactation, and weaning in the mouse. mGH mRNA and protein was expressed predominantly in the epithelial component of the mammary...