Abstract From April 2007 to March 2008, cloacal swabs were obtained from 246 casualty raptors recovered by various wildlife rehabilitation centers in the United States.The swabs were placed in a virus transport medium and transported to the laboratory on ice packs.At Shipping the laboratory, the samples were pooled with each pool consisting of five

We demonstrate that the unconventional electron-phonon interactions, charge inhomogeneity and Bottle Drying rack charge ordering in underdoped cuprates play an important role in metal-insulator transitions and nanoscale phase separation.In so doing, we argue that charge carriers (i.e.hole polarons) in these systems segregate into insulating (copyri

Manganese (Mn) oxides are among the most reactive sorbents and oxidants within the environment, where they play a central role in the cycling of nutrients, metals, and carbon.Recent discoveries have identified superoxide (O2-) (both of biogenic and abiogenic origin) as an effective oxidant of Mn(II) leading to the formation of Mn oxides.Here we Uni

This article presents results from a binding media survey of 61 Romano-Egyptian paintings.Most of the paintings (51) are the better-known funerary mummy portraits created using either encaustic or tempera paint medium.Samples from all the paintings (on wooden panels or linen shrouds) were analyzed with gas chromatography/mass spectrometry (GC/MS) t