But lawmakers and Gov. Jerry Brown's administration are hoping to capitalize on the current parched conditions, and cautious cooperation from once-resistant interest groups, to pass a plan for a groundwater management system by the end of the month.
"I don't think this economy is resistant to interest rates," he said.
But so resistant have fishing interests been to the very idea of reserves that they would rather forgo this prospect than cede an inch of seabed to conservation.
In a very West Coast way — having formed the band in Arizona, they've lived in Seattle since the early '90s — they made intuitive connections with any kind of music that seemed transcendental or mysterious or resistant to commercial interests.
Though almost a century has elapsed since their discovery, bacteriophages continue to have a major impact on modern biological sciences, especially with the growth of multidrug-resistant bacteria and interest in the microbiome.
Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, methicillin-resistant coagulase-negative staphylococci and vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus species are the three antimicrobial-resistant isolates of most interest.
By the 17th century, both Protestant and Catholic universities had become overly devoted to defending correct religious doctrines and hence remained resistant to the new interest in science that had begun to sweep through Europe.
Reproducing the naturally occurring O2-tolerant hydrogenases is a potential strategy to make the oxygen sensitive enzymes, produced by organisms of biotechnological interest, more resistant.
One component of this decision tree is a determination of whether the protein of interest is resistant to proteolytic digestion.
Escalating deaths due to increased exposure of living organisms to infectious diseases and the rapid evolution of multi-drug resistant (MDR) microbes spurred interest in alternative remedies that can treat the MDR microbes causing these diseases (Saxena and Gomber, 2010).
The increasing occurrence of antibiotic-resistant microorganisms has fueled interest in the genetics and mechanisms of resistance evolved by bacteria to counteract the effect of antimicrobial agents.
