Abstract Background Satellites or tandem repeats are very abundant in many eukaryotic genomes.Occasionally they have been reported to be present in some prokaryotes, but to our knowledge there is no general comparative study on their occurrence.For this reason we present here an overview of the distribution and properties of satellites in a set of
Abstract Background The prevention of methicillin-resistant S.aureus (MRSA) transmission in the healthcare setting is a priority in Infection Control practices.A cornerstone of this policy is contact tracing of nosocomial contacts after an unexpected MRSA finding.The objective of this retrospective study was to quantify the rates of MRSA transmissi
The paper deals with the names of geographical objects in the archipelago of Severnaya Zemlya, coined during the Soviet period of the exploration of the Arctic.The study looks out to the motivation of place names and aims to establish the extent to which they can form integrated toponymic systems.The evidence was taken from a specialized toponymic
The mechanisms involved in the homogeneous perception of odorant mixtures remain largely unknown.With the aim of enhancing knowledge about blending and masking mixture perceptions, we focused on structure-odor relationships by combining the classification and pharmacophore approaches.We built a dataset of about 5000 molecules and their related odor
This paper considers two dynamic load models that are widely used in industry to account for induction motor behavior: CMLD and CLOD.These models must be parametrized for the specific utility system in a general way so that they can be used in planning studies and provide a conservative but realistic representation of load behavior.This study consi