ABSTRACT In the United States, humans spend the majority of their time indoors, where they are exposed to the microbiome of the built environment (BE) they inhabit.Despite the ubiquity of microbes in BEs and their potential impacts on health and building materials, basic questions about the microbiology of these environments remain unanswered.We pr

In the current study, the aim was to examine the toxicity of combined exposure to acrylamide and Staphylococcus aureus.We investigated the effect of staphylococcal enterotoxin A (SEA), a toxin produced by Staphylococcus aureus, on the oxidation induced DNA damaging potency of acrylamide in mouse spleen cells BOOTS using an Formamidopyrimidine-DNA g

In 2004, with the closing of the last Hmong refugee camp, Wat Tham Krabok, the latest group of Hmong refugees resettled to the US.To Clipboard facilitate the language transition of approximately 1,000 school-aged newcomer Hmong children, the Saint Paul Public Schools, developed and established Transitional Language Centers.In this article, we exami

As the penetration of renewable energy continues to increase, stochastic and intermittent generation resources gradually replace the conventional generators, bringing significant challenges in stabilizing power system frequency.Thus, aggregating demand-side resources for frequency regulation attracts attentions from both academia and industry.Howev

Introduction Tympanometry is an objective measure of middle ear function that has been an integral part of the audiological evaluation test battery, for nearly three decades.The parameters of the tympanogram obtained are Door Knobs influenced with many factors such as introduction of positive or negative air pressure, speed of recording tympanogram