Run with your client, not after

Bacterial Cytoskeleton: Not Your Run-of-the-Mill Tubulin

Large plasmids of some Bacillus species encode a distinct tubulin homolog, TubZ, implicated in maintenance of the host plasmid. A recent study has shown that TubZ polymers exhibit treadmilling behavior in vivo, suggesting that they are involved in mitotic activity.

How Thick Is Your Client?

Average Revenue Per User (ARPU) is a measure of the revenue generated by users of a particular business service. It is a term most commonly used by consumer communications and networking businesses. For mobile devices, they generate ARPU through network and content services (value-added services) that they make accessible to the user. The more accessible these services are the greater the ARPU ...

Speed Up Your Database Client with Adaptable Multithreaded Prefetching

In many client/server object database applications, performance is limited by the delay in transferring pages from the server to the client. We present a prefetching technique that can avoid this delay, especially where there are several database servers. Part of the novelty of this approach lies in the way that multithreading on the client workstation is exploited, in particular for activities...

If Your Client is Mentally Retarded

Protecting the brain with eNOS: run for your life.

Nitric oxide (NO) plays a major role in both vascular and neural biology in health and disease. This concept is exemplified when one examines the role of NO in the brain and the cerebral circulation. NO is a potent vasodilator, and blood vessels in the brain are normally exposed to NO from 2 major sources—endothelium and neurons. Acting as a messenger molecule, NO mediates the majority of endot...