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Investigating the role of MlaA in SDS-EDTA resistance pathways in Escherichia coli
Creators: name: Chung, Yasmine
name: Feng, Zirui
name: Ma, Jiajie
name: Prieto, Franco
Publisher: name: Undergraduate Journal of Experimental Microbiology and Immunology
Year: 2020

description: The outer membrane (OM) in Gram-negative bacteria, like Escherichia coli, is asymmetric, with mainly lipopolysaccharide (LPS) molecules in the outer leaflet and phospholipids in the inner leaflet. Maintaining structural asymmetry of the OM is vital for cell survival in unfavourable conditions. The Mla pathway is a mechanism that restores membrane asymmetry upon exposure to external stressors, such as sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS) and ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid (EDTA). Deletion of the OM porin OmpC, which forms a complex with MlaA, a component of the Mla pathway, results in hypersensitivity to SDS-EDTA treatment. However, these mutants are rescued when grown in phosphate deficient conditions. The phosphoporin PhoE, which is upregulated under phosphate limitation, likely complements OmpC for maintaining OM asymmetry. PhoE shares structural and functional similarities to OmpC, but its interaction with MlaA remains unclear. Thus, we sought to investigate the role of MlaA in the OmpC- and putative PhoE- dependent pathways of restoring membrane asymmetry. We hypothesized that since OmpC and PhoE appear to mediate independent pathways for maintaining membrane asymmetry that converge on MlaA, deletion of MlaA would cause severely reduced cell growth compared to both ΔompC and ΔphoE mutants. To test this, we performed growth curve assays with wild type, ΔompC, ΔphoE, and ΔmlaA strains in minimal media containing SDS and increasing concentrations of EDTA. We found that growth of ΔmlaA mutants was not as severely inhibited as expected, and that ΔompC mutants were more sensitive to SDS-EDTA than ΔmlaA mutants, demonstrating the importance of MlaA-independent pathways of SDS-EDTA resistance.
description: Undergraduate Journal of Experimental Microbiology and Immunology, Vol. 25 (2020): Undergraduate Journal of Experimental Microbiology and Immunology (UJEMI)
Metal-cavity surface-emitting microlaser at room temperature
Creators: name: Lu, Chien-Yao
name: Chang, Shu-Wei
name: Chuang, Shun Lien
name: Germann, Tim David
name: Bimberg, Dieter
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Berlin
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: 530 Physik
subject: plasmons
subject: optical reflectors
subject: electrical properties and parameters
subject: optical communications
subject: physical optics
subject: lenses
subject: optical properties
subject: etching
subject: quantum wells
subject: lasers

description: This article may be downloaded for personal use only. Any other use requires prior permission of the author and AIP Publishing. This article appeared in Appl. Phys. Lett. 96, 251101 (2010) and may be found at https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3455316.
description: We propose and realize a substrate-free metal-cavity surface-emitting microlaser with both top and sidewall metal and a bottom distributed Bragg reflector as the cavity structure. The transfer-matrix method is used to design the laser structure based on the round-trip resonance condition inside the cavity. The laser is 2.0𝜇m in diameter and 2.5𝜇m in height, and operates at room temperature with continuous-wave mode. Flip-bonding the device to a silicon substrate with a conductive metal provides efficient heat removal. A high characteristic temperature about 425 K is observed from 10 to 27°C.
Section 80 — The Great Constitutional Tautology
Creators: name: Bell, Virginia
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Law
subject: FOS: Law

description: Section 80 of the Constitution provides for trial by jury on indictment of any offence against the law of the Commonwealth. The orthodox interpretation of s 80 holds that it is a matter for the Parliament to determine whether an offence is tried on indictment. It is an interpretation that has been criticised as failing to give s 80 effect as a guarantee of individual rights. This article reviews the history of the provision, including the convention debates and High Court jurisprudence, and suggests that the conception of s 80 proposed by Gaudron J in Cheng v The Queen (2000) 203 CLR 248 is a satisfying alternative to the rights-protective conception. This alternative conception identifies s 80 as a constitutional limitation on judicial power, preventing the trial of federal offences on indictment by judge alone.
Factorization length distribution for affine semigroups II: asymptotic behavior for numerical semigroups with arbitrarily many generators
Creators: name: Garcia, Stephan Ramon
name: Omar, Mohamed
name: O'Neill, Christopher
name: Yih, Samuel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: Commutative Algebra (math.AC)
subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: For numerical semigroups with a specified list of (not necessarily minimal) generators, we obtain explicit asymptotic expressions, and in some cases quasipolynomial/quasirational representations, for all major factorization length statistics. This involves a variety of tools that are not standard in the subject, such as algebraic combinatorics (Schur polynomials), probability theory (weak convergence of measures, characteristic functions), and harmonic analysis (Fourier transforms of distributions). We provide instructive examples which demonstrate the power and generality of our techniques. We also highlight unexpected consequences in the theory of homogeneous symmetric functions.
description: 29 pages
Excepted coverage of endangered species on Danish heathland
Creators: name: Strange, Niels
name: Jacobsen, Jette Bredahl
name: Tarp, Peter
name: Thorsen, Bo Jellesmark
name: Strange, Niels
name: Jacobsen, Jette Bredahl
name: Tarp, Peter
name: Thorsen, Bo Jellesmark
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: International Development
subject: biodiversity
subject: expected coverage
subject: heathland protection

description: Considerable resources must be allocated for fulfilling the Habitat Directive and the question of optimal allocation is as important as it is difficult. In the present study, we estimate the expected species coverage of three non-probabilistic strategies: i) a maximum selected area strategy, ii) a hotspot selection strategy, and iii) a minimising cost strategy, and one probabilistic strategy a maximum expected coverage strategy. We show that the optimal network changes considerably with strategies. Thus, the study provides insights which may guide conservation authorities on how to target their actions so that they accomplish the most with limited budgets, while acknowledging the uncertainty of species presence. We finally discuss how welfare economic evaluations of conservation targets could be included in such conservation policy analysis.
Generation of an acrAacrE double-knockout in Escherichia coli and its role in kanamycin resistance
Creators: name: Ang, Ada
name: Kumar, Shaneel
name: Park, Cathy
name: Park, Cathy
name: De Guzman, Josh
name: De Guzman, Josh
Publisher: name: Undergraduate Journal of Experimental Microbiology and Immunology
Year: 2020

description: AcrAB and AcrEF are multidrug efflux pumps found in Escherichia coli that are thought to mediate the export of kanamycin, and therefore contribute to kanamycin resistance. Previous studies found that expression of acrE increased in response to increasing concentrations of kanamycin. Another study found that the loss of acrA or acrE was shown to have no effect on kanamycin resistance, indicating that AcrAB and AcrEF may have compensatory effects on each other. The goal of this study was to generate an acrAacrE double-knockout in E. coli and determine if this double-knockout conferred any differences in kanamycin resistance compared to the single-knockouts and wild-type. We hypothesized that by knocking out both the acrA and acrE genes, no compensatory effects would occur to support kanamycin resistance. To test this, we first generated an acrAacrE double-knockout by using lambda Red (λ-Red) recombination to remove the acrA gene from an acrE single-knockout strain. To determine differences in kanamycin resistance, MIC assays were performed on all the strains. The acrAacrE double-knockout was successfully generated and Sanger sequencing confirmed the deletion of acrA. However, MIC results were not conclusive as they did not show any difference in kanamycin resistance between strains. Based on these results, it is still unclear whether AcrAB and AcrEF have compensatory effects on each other, since there was no significant difference in MIC between the strains.
description: Undergraduate Journal of Experimental Microbiology and Immunology, Vol. 25 (2020): Undergraduate Journal of Experimental Microbiology and Immunology (UJEMI)
Ronli Sifris, Reproductive Freedom, Torture and International Human Rights: Challenging the Masculinisation of Torture (Routledge, 2014)
Creators: name: Rubenstein, Kim
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Law
subject: FOS: Law

description: This content was published in the Monash University Law Review, the flagship academic journal of Monash Law School, managed by a team of student editors.
Cell elongation induced by ftsZ antisense RNA expression in Escherichia coli strain DH5ɑ increases T4 bacteriophage adsorbed per cell
Creators: name: Chong, Derrick
name: Garrovillas, Emmanuel
name: Huang, Alice
name: Naidu, Nathan
Publisher: name: Undergraduate Journal of Experimental Microbiology and Immunology
Year: 2020

description: Adsorption is a fundamental step in the bacteriophage life cycle that results in the irreversible attachment to external asperities on the cell surface of Escherichia coli, allowing for the eventual injection of the viral genome for replication. Previous research has demonstrated that E. coli grown in rich media were larger and adsorbed more T4 bacteriophage than cells that were grown in less carbon-rich media. However, the direct effect of modulating cell size on phage adsorption is unclear. To investigate the relationship between cell size and T4 phage adsorbed per cell, we used antisense inhibition of ftsZ, an essential cell division gene, in E. coli strain DH5α, to induce cell elongation. Induction of ftsZ antisense RNA resulted in a distinct cell shape morphology that is elongated and filamentous as a consequence of impaired cell division. We quantified T4 bacteriophage adsorption in elongated FtsZ deficient and normal length wildtype E. coli using double agar overlay plaque assay. We found that elongated cells adsorbed 16% more phage than wildtype cells. The elongated morphology and filamentation in E. coli with decreased ftsZ activity was visualized by crystal violet staining and phase contrast microscopy, which is consistent with the idea that T4 bacteriophage adsorption increases with E. coli cells that have greater surface area. Whether other methods of inducing elongated growth will increase bacteriophage adsorption, as well as its effects on subsequent steps of the bacteriophage life cycle, remain to be elucidated.
description: Undergraduate Journal of Experimental Microbiology and Immunology, Vol. 25 (2020): Undergraduate Journal of Experimental Microbiology and Immunology (UJEMI)
Resistance to sucralose in Escherichia coli is not conferred by mutations in the quinolone resistance determining regions of gyrA
Creators: name: Dalkilic, Sara Suna
name: Cheng, Solana
name: Avasthi, Aneil
name: Chi, Sherri
Publisher: name: Undergraduate Journal of Experimental Microbiology and Immunology
Year: 2020

description: Sucralose, a synthetic non-caloric sweetener (NCS) commonly consumed in North America, is associated with an increasing number of metabolic disorders that may be result from NCS-microbiome interactions and the bacteriostatic action of sucralose on various species including Escherichia coli. A mechanism of action for the bacteriostatic effects of sucralose in the absence of sucrose has not been characterized. However, studies have revealed increased resistance to quinolone antibiotics, inhibitors of DNA gyrase, in bacterial strains grown in sub-inhibitory concentrations of sucralose. Here, we aim to investigate the mechanism of action of sucralose resistance in E. coli as it relates to quinolone resistance, by targeting the quinolone resistance‐determining region (QRDR) of the gyrA gene, the DNA-binding component of DNA gyrase. Our results reveal distinct phenotypic differences between non-sucralose resistant (NS) and high sucralose resistant (HS) strains, and that the HS strain phenotype is maintained in the absence of sucralose. Additionally, no mutations were found in the QRDR of the gyrA gene. Despite a lack of direct association between sucralose resistance and quinolone resistance in E. coli, our study provides insight into alternative mechanisms of action for sucralose resistance.
description: Undergraduate Journal of Experimental Microbiology and Immunology, Vol. 25 (2020): Undergraduate Journal of Experimental Microbiology and Immunology (UJEMI)
Biofilm production in Escherichia coli K30 with group 1 capsular gene wza and wza-wzb-wzc deletions is not correlated with Erythromycin resistance phenotypes in liquid media
Creators: name: James, Cynthia
name: Kim, Christine
name: Pan, Catherine
name: Zhong, Douglas
Publisher: name: Undergraduate Journal of Experimental Microbiology and Immunology
Year: 2020

description: The Wzy-dependent capsular polysaccharide export system consists of an outer membrane channel (Wza), inner membrane channel and tyrosine autokinase (Wzc), and regulatory phosphatase (Wzb), and is responsible for the export and assembly of extracellular polysaccharide capsules. In Escherichia coli K30, this system is critical for the formation of group 1 capsules. Previous studies have shown that E. coli K30 Δwza and Δwza-wzb-wzc have greater resistance to erythromycin, a macrolide antibiotic, on solid media compared to wild-type K30; however, the opposite phenotype was observed in liquid media. Therefore, we hypothesized that the different erythromycin resistance phenotypes in E. coli K30 wild-type, Δwza, and Δwza-wzb-wzc are due to differences in biofilm production in solid and liquid media. In this study, we investigated whether biofilm formation is correlated with the differential erythromycin resistance phenotype of wild-type E. coli K30, Δwza, and Δwza-wzb-wzc in solid and liquid media. Erythromycin disc diffusion assays on solid media, minimum inhibitory concentration assays in liquid media and crystal violet biofilm assays were performed on all three strains. We found that Δwza and Δwza-wzb-wzc were more resistant than the wild-type strain on solid media, but all three strains had similar levels of resistance in liquid media. In contrast to previous studies, we obtained consistent erythromycin MIC values in liquid media and determined that it was between 125 and 250 μg/mL, but we were unable to obtain consistent biofilm formation among our three trials. Thus, we conclude that there is no correlation between biofilm production and erythromycin resistance in E. coli K30 wild-type, Δwza, and Δwza-wzb-wzc in liquid media.
description: Undergraduate Journal of Experimental Microbiology and Immunology, Vol. 25 (2020): Undergraduate Journal of Experimental Microbiology and Immunology (UJEMI)
Splitting Hairs: Aytugrul v The Queen
Creators: name: O’Brien, Liam
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Law
subject: FOS: Law

description: At first glance, amidst contemporary popular suspicion of the law’s onerous safeguards in favour of the accused, it may appear surreal, quixotic or even wilfully provocative to split hairs over the presentation of DNA evidence in criminal trials — particularly in cases, as below, in which all parties accept the expression of that evidence as mathematically correct and, in its own right, highly persuasive. Yet the clash of established behavioural science with uniform Australian evidence legislation and traditional expectations of jurors gives rise to questions which strike at the heart of the values of criminal law. In Aytugrul v The Queen (2012) 247 CLR 170, the High Court declined the appellant’s invitation to delve into psychological research on the effects of the ‘exclusion percentage’ on a juror’s subconscious mind. Dubious from the outset about the distinction between two alternative expressions of the same mathematical value, the Court found that the ‘exclusion percentage’ was not unfairly prejudicial as it was mitigated by prosecutorial and judicial explanation. Above all, the ‘exclusion percentage’ was salvaged by its presentation alongside the less problematic ‘ frequency ratio’. However, even if the exclusion percentage adds no further probative value beyond the ‘ frequency ratio’, the High Court preferred to analyse its merit on its own terms, in isolation. This case note draws on Heydon J’s discussion of a contrasting American decision, wide-ranging empirical studies and the policy of the law of evidence to argue that DNA evidence communicated as an ‘exclusion percentage’ should be excluded from criminal trials.
The Neurophysiological Changes by Nerve Conduction Study and Electromyography in Acute and Long-Term COVID-19 Circumstances: A Comparative Study Protocol and Review
Creators: name: farid, hassan
name: Hasrat, Nareen
name: Hashim, Ali
name: Kadhum, Haithem
name: Kadhim, Lana
name: Yaqoob, Zainab
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 110903 Central Nervous System
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 111699 Medical Physiology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Basic medicine
subject: 110904 Neurology and Neuromuscular Diseases
subject: 110999 Neurosciences not elsewhere classified

description: In December 2019, a new disease called Novel Coronavirus Disease or COVID-19, caused by the virus SARS CoV-2, started in Wuhan, China and was spreading around the world with pneumonia-like symptoms. Many people infected with COVID-19 have been diagnosed with typical Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) or its variants, as well as other demyelinating neuropathies. Furthermore, there is an increase in critical illness neuropathy (axonopathy) and myopathy during acute COVID-19 and post-COVID-19 periods. As a result, it is critical to raise awareness about COVID-19-related neuropathy and myopathy, as well as to provide a simple and practical method for diagnosing and following up on patients using electromyography (EMG) and nerve conduction studies (NCS) to evaluate neuro-electrophysiological changes in COVID-19 patients in acute and long-term settings. Therefore, an analytical, comparative cross-sectional study will be held in Basra City, southern Iraq, focusing on acute and chronic demyelinating neuropathy, critical illness axonopathy, inflammatory myopathy, and long-standing myopathy that accompany or follow COVID-19 infection.
Acarodynerus acarophilus Giordani Soika 1962
Creators: name: Carpenter, James M.
name: Brown, Graham R.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Vespidae
Acarodynerus
Acarodynerus acarophilus

description: acarophilus Giordani Soika
Acarodynerus acarophilus Giordani Soika 1962 [1961]: 148 (key), 157, female, male—“ Queensland: Stradbroke Isl., Sunnibank” (London); 1977: 126 (Qld., Nambour; N. S. W.), 129 (key).— Cardale 1985: 162 (cat.).— Giordani Soika 1993b: 144 (compared to A. atrorufus n. sp.).— Borsato & Ratti 1999: 65 (list).
description: Published as part of Carpenter, James M. & Brown, Graham R., 2021, Catalogue of the Australian Eumeninae (Hymenoptera: Vespidae), pp. 1-68 in Zootaxa 4919 (1) on page 22, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4919.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4473370
VASPKIT: A User-friendly Interface Facilitating High-throughput Computing and Analysis Using VASP Code
Creators: name: Wang, Vei
name: Xu, Nan
name: Liu, Jin Cheng
name: Tang, Gang
name: Geng, Wen-Tong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the VASPKIT, a command-line program that aims at providing a powerful and user-friendly interface to perform high-throughput analysis of a variety of material properties from the raw data produced by the VASP code. It consists of mainly the pre- and post-processing modules. The former module is designed to prepare and manipulate input files such as the necessary input files generation, symmetry analysis, supercell transformation, k-path generation for a given crystal structure. The latter module is designed to extract and analyze the raw data about elastic mechanics, electronic structure, charge density, electrostatic potential, linear optical coefficients, wave function plots in real space, and etc. This program can run conveniently in either interactive user interface or command line mode. The command-line options allow the user to perform high-throughput calculations together with bash scripts. This article gives an overview of the program structure and presents illustrative examples for some of its usages. The program can run on Linux, MacOS, and Windows platforms. The executable versions of VASPKIT and the related examples, together with the tutorials, are available in its official website vaspkit.com.
description: 33 pages, 19 figures
Genuine twist-3 contributions to the generalized parton distributions from instantons
Creators: name: Kiptily, D. V.
name: Polyakov, M. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The genuine twist-3 quark-gluon contributions to the Generalized Parton Distributions (GPDs) are estimated in the model of the instanton vacuum. These twist-3 effects are found to be parametrically suppressed relative to the ``kinematical'' twist-3 ones due to the small packing fraction of the instanton vacuum. We derive exact sum rules for the twist-3 GPDs.
description: 17 pages
Effect of non-parallel mean flow on the acoustic spectrum of heated supersonic jets: explanation of `jet quietening'
Creators: name: Afsar, Mohammed
name: Sescu, Adrian
name: Sassanis, Vasileios
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 76Q05, 76N15, 76F10, 76F55

description: Noise measurements of heated axisymmetric jets at fixed supersonic acoustic Mach number indicate that the acoustic spectrum reduces when the temperature ratio increases. The `spectral quietening' effect has been observed both experimentally and computationally using Large Eddy Simulations (LES). It was explained by Afsar {\it et al}. (M. Z. Afsar and M. E. Goldstein $\&$ A. M. Fagan AIAAJ., Vol. 49, p. 2522, 2011) through the cancellation introduced by enthalpy flux/momentum flux coupling term using the generalized acoustic analogy formulation. But the parallel flow assumption is known to give inaccurate predictions at high jet speeds. In this paper we therefore extend the non-parallel flow asymptotic theory of Goldstein {\it et al}. (M. E. Goldstein, A. Sescu $\&$ M. Z. Afsar, J. Fluid Mech., Vol. 695, p. 199, 2012) for the vector Green's function of the adjoint linearized Euler equations (ALEE) in the analogy. Using a steady Reynolds Averaged Navier Stokes (RANS) calculation for the jet mean flow, we find that the coupling term propagator is positive-definite and asymptotically sub-dominant at low frequencies corresponding to the peak jet noise when non-parallel flow effects are taken into account and self-consistent approximations for the turbulence structure are made. The validity of the non-parallel flow-based acoustic analogy model is assessed at various observation angles by computing the overall sound pressure level (OASPL) and use this to suggest a more rational explanation of the quietening effect. In general, our noise predictions are in very good agreement with acoustic data beyond the peak frequency.
description: 58 pages
Acarodynerus atrorufus Giordani Soika 1993
Creators: name: Carpenter, James M.
name: Brown, Graham R.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Vespidae
Acarodynerus
Acarodynerus atrorufus

description: atrorufus Giordani Soika
Acarodynerus atrorufus Giordani Soika 1993b: 143, male—“ W. Australia: Tutanning Reserve, 18–25 Km E di Pingelly” (Perth); also from 70–75 km ENE Norseman.— Borsato & Ratti 1999: 68 (list).
description: Published as part of Carpenter, James M. & Brown, Graham R., 2021, Catalogue of the Australian Eumeninae (Hymenoptera: Vespidae), pp. 1-68 in Zootaxa 4919 (1) on page 22, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4919.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4473370
Currents, chemical potential and boundary conditions in lattice QCD
Creators: name: Mitrjushkin, V. K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A connection between the operator fermionic currents $\hatJ$ and corresponding `Grassmannian' currents $J$ in the functional integral formalism is studied. The QCD action with non--zero chemical potential $μ$ is derived. A connection between the fermionic Fock space and boundary conditions along the forth direction is discussed.
description: Lattice2002 (spectrum)
The rate of T7 phage-mediated lysis of Escherichia coli growing in exponential phase is not affected by deletion of rpoS
Creators: name: Zhu, Jingyao
name: Huang, Cai Lan Jennifer
name: Doraki, Kamand
name: Lee, Bryan
Publisher: name: Undergraduate Journal of Experimental Microbiology and Immunology
Year: 2020

description: RpoS is an Escherichia coli sigma factor shown to regulate genes in response to various environmental and internal stressors. Previous studies have investigated the role of RpoS in a mechanism known as a cross-protection, in which prior exposure to one stressor leads to increased tolerance to a subsequent stressor. Pre-treatment with subinhibitory levels of antibiotics have been used in several studies in an attempt to elicit a delay in phage-lysis, with varying and contradicting results. We propose that the delayed T7-mediated lysis phenotype may be growth phase dependent as the stress response sigma factor RpoS is known to be expressed in stationary phase. Here, we attempted to perform phage lysis assays on wild-type (WT) and rpoS knockout strains of Escherichia coli strains growing in stationary and exponential phase, to look for differences in the time to observe bacteriophage-mediated lysis. We did not observe differences in the time of phage-mediated lysis between wild type and rpoS knock-out strains of E. coli growing in exponential phase. An attempt was made to compare phage-mediated lysis time of E. coli grown in exponential and stationary phase, however, technical issues related to normalizing optical density prevented meaningful comparisons. In conclusion, our study characterizes the E. coli rpoS knock-out strain JW5437-1 at the nucleotide level, compares the growth curves of a wild type and rpoS knock-out strain of E. coli, and shows that phage-mediated lysis times are not different between these strains when growing in exponential phase, which suggests RpoS plays no role in this phase.
description: Undergraduate Journal of Experimental Microbiology and Immunology, Vol. 25 (2020): Undergraduate Journal of Experimental Microbiology and Immunology (UJEMI)
ЗАРУБЕЖНЫЙ ОПЫТ ОЦЕНКИ СТОИМОСТИ ЗЕМЕЛЬ СЕЛЬСКОХОЗЯЙСТВЕННОГО НАЗНАЧЕНИЯ
Creators: name: Караев, Мансур
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Оценка земли и других природных ресурсов является важнейшим направ­лением теоретических и прикладных исследований оценки стоимости иму­щества. Основные теоретические положения этой оценки были разработаны еще в XVIII веке классиками экономической теории – Адамом Смитом, Давидом Рикардо, Иоганном Генрихом фон Тюненом и с тех пор не претерпели принципиальных изменений [1].
Review Article: Gentamicin-induced protective effects against T7 bacteriophage infection in Escherichia coli
Creators: name: Chen, Yuyan
name: Li, Miaoran
name: Lin, Benjamin
name: Trac, Chanel
Publisher: name: Undergraduate Journal of Experimental Microbiology and Immunology
Year: 2020

description: The rapid growth of antibiotic-resistant Escherichia coli globally highlights the need to develop novel antimicrobial treatments including phage therapy or combination therapies. To further understand the combined dynamics between bacteriophage and antibiotics on bacterial survival, past studies have found that E. coli exhibit an increased resistance to T7 bacteriophage when exposed to sub-inhibitory levels of gentamicin, a common antibiotic treatment for E. coli infections. However, the gentamicin-induced mechanism of resistance to phage remains to be elucidated. Here, we review current research and its limitations in regards to this phenomenon and the potential cellular mechanisms by which it occurs, including the gentamicin-induced secretion of outer membrane vesicles, release of soluble lipopolysaccharides, RpoS-mediated stress responses, and increase in capsular polysaccharide formation. We conclude that soluble lipopolysaccharides and RpoS are likely not involved in gentamicin-induced phage resistance, while past studies have not conclusively supported the roles of outer membrane vesicles and capsular polysaccharides. The conflicting evidence for several extracellular mechanisms suggests that it may be useful to consider possible intracellular processes such as ribosomal inhibition or toxin-antitoxin systems. Moreover, limitations and variability in past studies should be addressed in follow-up experiments. With this retrospective, we emphasize the importance of future research in narrowing the scope of potential mechanisms and thus discuss methods to identify the subcellular localization of these protective factors.
description: Undergraduate Journal of Experimental Microbiology and Immunology, Vol. 25 (2020): Undergraduate Journal of Experimental Microbiology and Immunology (UJEMI)
Martingale transport with homogeneous stock movements
Creators: name: Eckstein, Stephan
name: Kupper, Michael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Finance (q-fin.MF)
subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We study a variant of the martingale optimal transport problem in a multi-period setting to derive robust price bounds of a financial derivative. On top of marginal and martingale constraints, we introduce a time-homogeneity assumption, which restricts the variability of the forward-looking transitions of the martingale across time. We provide a dual formulation in terms of superhedging and discuss relaxations of the time-homogeneity assumption by adding market frictions. In financial terms, the introduced time-homogeneity corresponds to a time-consistency condition for call prices, given the state of the stock. The time homogeneity assumption leads to improved price bounds as market data from many time points can be incorporated effectively. The approach is illustrated with two numerical examples.
description: 20 pages, 2 figures
Capsule Nets for Complex Medical Image Segmentation Tasks
Creators: name: Shanmugapriya Survarachakan
name: Johansen, Jenny Stange
name: Pedersen, Mathias Aarseth
name: Amani, Mahdi
name: Lindseth, Frank
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 80104 Computer Vision
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This conference paper was published in Proceedings of the 10th Colour and Visual Computing Symposium 2020 (CVCS 2020), Gjøvik, Norway, and Virtual, September 16-17, 2020.
Mental Health Laws: Where to from Here?
Creators: name: McSherry, Bernadette
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Law
subject: FOS: Law

description: Most developed countries have laws that permit the detention and treatment of persons with severe mental impairments without their consent. In Australia, a number of governments have recently undergone or are currently undertaking reviews of mental health legislation in the light of the principles set out in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. This Convention has generated debates about (a) — whether mental health laws that enable involuntary detention and treatment should be abolished on the basis that they unjustifiably breach human rights; as well as (b) — whether such laws can be reformed in the light of human rights principles to ensure respect for individual choices in relation to treatment. This article explores what these debates may mean for the provision of involuntary treatment in the future.
Reductive G-structures and Lie derivatives
Creators: name: Godina, Marco
name: Matteucci, Paolo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 53A55, 53C10, 53C27, 58A20

description: Reductive G-structures on a principal bundle Q are considered. It is shown that these structures, i.e. reductive G-subbundles P of Q, admit a canonical decomposition of the pull-back vector bundle $i_P^*(TQ) = P \times_Q TQ$ over P. For classical G-structures, i.e. reductive G-subbundles of the linear frame bundle, such a decomposition defines an infinitesimal canonical lift. This lift extends to a prolongation $Γ$-structure on P. In this general geometric framework the theory of Lie derivatives is considered. Particular emphasis is given to the morphisms which must be taken in order to state what kind of Lie derivative has to be chosen. On specializing the general theory of gauge-natural Lie derivatives of spinor fields to the case of the Kosmann lift, we recover the result originally found by Kosmann. We also show that in the case of a reductive G-structure one can introduce a "reductive Lie derivative" with respect to a certain class of generalized infinitesimal automorphisms. This differs, in general, from the gauge-natural one, and we conclude by showing that the "metric Lie derivative" introduced by Bourguignon and Gauduchon is in fact a particular kind of reductive rather than gauge-natural Lie derivative.
description: LaTeX (21 pages, 3 runs); corrected typos and some notational inconsistencies in the last part of section 5 (current version incorporates the Erratum)
Acarodynerus batchelorensis Borsato 1994
Creators: name: Carpenter, James M.
name: Brown, Graham R.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Vespidae
Acarodynerus
Acarodynerus batchelorensis

description: batchelorensis Borsato
Acarodynerus batchelorensis Borsato 1994 [1993]: 247, 249 (key), fig. 5, female—“N. Territory: Batchelor” (Adelaide); 2003: 547 (N. T.: Kakadu N. P.).
description: Published as part of Carpenter, James M. & Brown, Graham R., 2021, Catalogue of the Australian Eumeninae (Hymenoptera: Vespidae), pp. 1-68 in Zootaxa 4919 (1) on page 22, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4919.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4473370
Giving Chapter III Back its Constitutional Mojo? – Lessons from State Courts and beyond
Creators: name: Murray, Sarah
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Law
subject: FOS: Law

description: The High Court’s approach to Chapter III of the Commonwealth Constitution has, since the case of Boilermakers’, frequently been the subject of criticism. This paper explores whether there might be scope to revisit this ‘over-constitutionalised’ approach using some recent decisions, including TCL Air Conditioner (Zhongshan) Co Ltd v The Judges of the Federal Court of Australia, as an exemplar for the analysis.
Noncommutative Synchrotron
Creators: name: Castorina, P.
name: Iorio, A.
name: Zappala, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the departures from the classical synchrotron radiation due to noncommutativity of coordinates. We find that these departures are significant, but do not give tight bounds on the magnitude of the noncommutative parameter. On the other hand, these results could be used in future investigations in this direction. We also find an acausal behavior for the electromagnetic field due to the presence in the theory of two different speeds of light. This effect naturally arises even if only θ^{12} is different from zero.
description: Latex file, 11 pages, modified version with major changes, to be published in Phys. Rev. D
title: Undergraduate Journal of Experimental Microbiology and Immunology, Vol. 2 (2020): Undergraduate Journal of Experimental Microbiology and Immunology (UJEMI+ Methods)
title: Undergraduate Journal of Experimental Microbiology and Immunology (UJEMI+ Methods)
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Undergraduate Journal Of Experimental Microbiology And Immunology
Publisher: name: Undergraduate Journal of Experimental Microbiology and Immunology
Year: 2021

description: How to Use a Mutant Library to Identify Genes Required for Biofilm Formation in the Pathogenic Fungus Candida albicans
Acarodynerus clypeatus
Creators: name: Carpenter, James M.
name: Brown, Graham R.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Vespidae
Acarodynerus
Acarodynerus clypeatus

description: clypeatus (de Saussure)
Odynerus clypeatus de Saussure 1853: 200, pl. 18 fig. 6, female, male (in subgenus Leionotus)—“ Tasmanie ” (Paris).— Smith 1857: 65 (cat.).— Froggatt 1892: 230 (cat.).— Dalla Torre 1894: 60 (cat.); 1904: 42 (in subgenus Lionotus; cat.).— Giordani Soika 1962 [1961]: 149 (types examined, not from Tasmania but from E. Australia).
Acarodynerus clypeatus; Giordani Soika 1962 [1961]: 147 (key), 149, fig. 18 (Qld.: Brisbane); 1977: 129 (key).— Cardale 1985: 162 (cat.).— Borsato 2003: 547 (Qld: Mt. Isa).
description: Published as part of Carpenter, James M. & Brown, Graham R., 2021, Catalogue of the Australian Eumeninae (Hymenoptera: Vespidae), pp. 1-68 in Zootaxa 4919 (1) on page 22, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4919.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4473370
title: Undergraduate Journal of Experimental Microbiology and Immunology, Vol. 25 (2020): Undergraduate Journal of Experimental Microbiology and Immunology (UJEMI)
title: Undergraduate Journal of Experimental Microbiology and Immunology (UJEMI)
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Undergraduate Journal Of Experimental Microbiology And Immunology
Publisher: name: Undergraduate Journal of Experimental Microbiology and Immunology
Year: 2020

description: Investigation of outer membrane porin OmpC mutation mediated relationship between Cefotaxime antibiotic resistance and T4 phage resistance in Escherichia coli ...1-11 Cell elongation induced by ftsZ antisense RNA expression in Escherichia coli strain DH5ɑ increases T4 bacteriophage adsorbed per cell...1-7 Biofilm production in Escherichia coli K30 with group 1 capsular gene wza and wza-wzb-wzc deletions is not correlated with Erythromycin resistance phenotypes in liquid media...1-9 Resistance to sucralose in Escherichia coli is not conferred by mutations in the quinolone resistance determining regions of gyrA...1-10 Limiting phosphorus may result in impaired growth and decreased glucose content in Escherichia coli MG1655...1-8 Glycine Betaine synthesis and transport Proteins, BetTIBA and ProPU, in Escherichia coli K12 do not confer Resistance to SDS-EDTA induced Outer Membrane Stress...1-7 Investigating the role of MlaA in SDS-EDTA resistance pathways in Escherichia coli...1-10 Generation of an acrAacrE double-knockout in Escherichia coli and its role in kanamycin resistance...1-11 Generating a sucralose-resistant Escherichia coli strain and variant calling pipeline for whole genome sequence analysis of point mutations...1-11 The rate of T7 phage-mediated lysis of Escherichia coli growing in exponential phase is not affected by deletion of rpoS...1-9 Review Article: Gentamicin-induced protective effects against T7 bacteriophage infection in Escherichia coli...1-15 Stringent response induced by amino acid starvation not involved in mediating broad spectrum antibiotic resistance in Escherichia coli...1-9
Optical/near-IR observations of Gamma-Ray Bursts in the Afterglow Era
Creators: name: Castro-Tirado, Alberto J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: An overview of the optical and near-IR observations of GRBs in the Afterglow Era is presented, covering the period 1997-2000. They have allowed to a better understanding of the underlying GRB physics as well as to constraint the progenitor models.
description: To appear in the Proceedings of The Second Rome GRB Workshop, ed: N. Masetti. Springer, in press. Review talk (6 pages, 2 figures)
Zentai and the Troubles of Extradition
Creators: name: Stubbs, Matthew
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Law
subject: FOS: Law

description: In Minister for Home Affairs (Cth) v Zentai, the High Court held that the Treaty on Extradition between Australia and the Republic of Hungary prevented Mr Zentai’s extradition to face accusations of committing a retrospective war crimes offence. The case is, in all likelihood, the last episode in the history of Australia’s contributions to bringing to justice alleged war criminals from the Second World War. The extraordinary time and resources devoted to the ultimately abortive extradition process in Zentai raise questions about the effi ciency of the procedures under the Extradition Act 1988 (Cth). Further, given the strict textual interpretation adopted by the Court, amendment to some of Australia’s extradition treaties may be required to uphold the key purpose of extradition arrangements, which is to facilitate international cooperation in the apprehension and surrender for trial of those accused of serious criminal offences.
MALA: Cross-Domain Dialogue Generation with Action Learning
Creators: name: Huang, Xinting
name: Qi, Jianzhong
name: Sun, Yu
name: Zhang, Rui
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Response generation for task-oriented dialogues involves two basic components: dialogue planning and surface realization. These two components, however, have a discrepancy in their objectives, i.e., task completion and language quality. To deal with such discrepancy, conditioned response generation has been introduced where the generation process is factorized into action decision and language generation via explicit action representations. To obtain action representations, recent studies learn latent actions in an unsupervised manner based on the utterance lexical similarity. Such an action learning approach is prone to diversities of language surfaces, which may impinge task completion and language quality. To address this issue, we propose multi-stage adaptive latent action learning (MALA) that learns semantic latent actions by distinguishing the effects of utterances on dialogue progress. We model the utterance effect using the transition of dialogue states caused by the utterance and develop a semantic similarity measurement that estimates whether utterances have similar effects. For learning semantic actions on domains without dialogue states, MsALA extends the semantic similarity measurement across domains progressively, i.e., from aligning shared actions to learning domain-specific actions. Experiments using multi-domain datasets, SMD and MultiWOZ, show that our proposed model achieves consistent improvements over the baselines models in terms of both task completion and language quality.
description: Update: Accepted to Proceedings of AAAI 2020
CP breaking in lattice chiral gauge theory
Creators: name: Fujikawa, Kazuo
name: Ishibashi, Masato
name: Suzuki, Hiroshi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The CP symmetry is not manifestly implemented for the local and doubler-free Ginsparg-Wilson operator in lattice chiral gauge theory. We precisely identify where the effects of this CP breaking appear.
description: 3 pages, Lattice2002(chiral)
Heterogeneous evolution of the galaxy and the origin of the short-lived nuclides in the early solar system
Creators: name: Kaur, T.
name: Sahijpal, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present galactic chemical evolution (GCE) models of the short-lived radionuclides (SLRs), 26Al, 36Cl, 41Ca, 53Mn and 60Fe, across the entire Milky Way galaxy. The objective is to understand the spatial and temporal distribution of the SLRs in the galaxy. The gamma-ray observations infer widespread distribution of 26Al and 60Fe across the galaxy. The signatures of the SLRs in the early solar system (ESS) are found in meteorites. We present homogeneous GCE simulation models for SLRs across the galaxy. We also develop a set of heterogeneous GCE models to understand the evolution of the galaxy within independent spatial grids of area, 0.1-1 kpc2. These grids evolve distinctly in terms of nucleosynthetic contributions of massive stars. We succeeded in simulating the formation and evolution of generations of stellar clusters/association. Based on the formulation, we provide a novel method to amalgamate the origin of the solar system with the gradual evolution of the galaxy along with a self-consistent origin of SLRs. We explore the possibility of the birth of the solar system in an environment where one of the stellar clusters formed >25 Million years earlier. The decaying 53Mn and 60Fe remnants from the evolved massive stars from the cluster probably contaminated the local medium associated with the presolar molecular cloud. A Wolf-Rayet wind from a distant massive star, belonging to a distinct cluster, probably contributed, 26Al (and 41Ca) to the presolar cloud. The irradiation production of 7,10Be and 36Cl occurred later in ESS.
description: Accepted for MNRAS; 42 pages, 12 figures, 2 tables
Homicide Law Reform in Australia: Improving Access to Defences for Women Who Kill Their Abusers
Creators: name: Crofts, Thomas
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Law
subject: FOS: Law

description: Over the past three decades, the law of homicide has been the subject of much academic debate, parliamentary review and various law reform commission reports throughout Australia. Such activity is largely a response to concerns about the availability and operation of the defences to homicide for women who kill in the context of family violence. The law in each state and territory in Australia differs and the issues with which reform bodies are grappling are complex. It is therefore not surprising that different recommendations have been made about how best to produce a more just law of homicide. This article explores some of these reviews and recommendations — particularly in New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria and Western Australia — and the reforms that have been planned and implemented. It will reveal that, despite sharing the core concern of improving the access to appropriate defences for women who kill their abusers, reform has been far from consistent across these jurisdictions.