ABSTRACT Staphylococcus aureus is an opportunistic pathogen that employs an array of different virulence factors to evade the immune system.The bi-component pore-forming leukocidins are of particular importance for their ability to target and kill phagocytes.The operon of two of these toxins, lukED and lukSF-PV, are repressed by two proteins, SarS
One puzzling observation in patients affected with Hutchinson-Gilford progeria syndrome (HGPS), who overall exhibit systemic and dramatic premature aging, is the absence of any conspicuous cognitive impairment.Recent studies based on induced pluripotent stem cells derived from HGPS patient cells have revealed a lack of expression Niacin in neural d
Optical excitation of spin-ordered rare earth metals triggers a complex response of the crystal lattice since expansive stresses from Terminals electron and phonon excitations compete with a contractive stress induced by spin disorder.Using ultrafast x-ray diffraction experiments, we study the layer specific strain response of a dysprosium film wit
The objective of this paper is to showcase the progress of the earthquake engineering community during a decade-long effort supported by the National Science Foundation Cleansing Oil in the George E.Brown Jr., Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES).During the four years that NEES network operations have been headquartered at Purdue Un
The application of the traditional planar acoustics method is limited due to the low accuracy when computing the echo characteristics of underwater targets.Based on the concept of the shooting and bouncing ray which considers Cocktail multiple reflections on the basic of the geometrics optics principle, this paper presents a more efficient GPU-acce