Phosphorylate and conquer

MAP kinases phosphorylate rice WRKY45

WRKY45 transcription factor is a central regulator of disease resistance mediated by the salicylic acid (SA) signaling pathway in rice. SA-activated WRKY45 protein induces the accumulation of its own mRNA. However, the mechanism underlying this regulation is still unknown. Here, we report three lines of evidence showing that a mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) cascade is involved in this ...

Divide-And-Conquer Sorting

Divide and Conquer

Process mining has been around for more than a decade now, and in that period several discovery and replay algorithms have been introduced that work fairly well on averagesized event logs. Nevertheless, these algorithms have problems dealing with big event logs. If the algorithms do not run out of memory, they will run out of time, because the problem handed to them is just too complex to be so...

Cooperate and Conquer ∗

The idea that cooperation can be a source of power has been extensively discussed in various disciplines. We study this idea from an economic viewpoint by analyzing the effect of intragroup cooperation in a static group rent-seeking model. Intragroup cooperation means that agents’ rent-seeking efforts maximize their group’s expected payoff. Although intragroup cooperation always reduces average...

Partition and Conquer

Although maps and partitions are ubiquitous in geographical information systems and spatial databases, there is only little work investigating their foundations. We give a rigorous definition for spatial partitions and propose partitions as a generic spatial data type that can be used to model arbitrary maps and to support spatial analysis. We identify a set of three powerful operations on part...