BACKGROUND The State of Bavaria is involved in a research program that will lead to the construction of a DNA barcode library for all animal species within its territorial boundaries. The present study provides a comprehensive DNA barcode library for the Geometridae, one of the most diverse of insect families. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS This study reports DNA barcodes for 400 Bavarian geo...

Perhaps the most common method of depicting data, in both scientific communication and popular media, is the bar graph. Bar graphs often depict measures of central tendency, but they do so asymmetrically: A mean, for example, is depicted not by a point, but by the edge of a bar that originates from a single axis. Here we show that this graphical asymmetry gives rise to a corresponding cognitive...

The extended Fes-CIP4 homology (EFC)/FCH-BAR (F-BAR) domain tubulates membranes. Overexpression of the pacsin2 EFC/F-BAR domain resulted in tubular localization inside cells and deformed liposomes into tubules in vitro. We found that overexpression of the pacsin2 EFC/F-BAR domain induced cellular microspikes, with the pacsin2 EFC/F-BAR domain concentrated at the neck. The hydrophobic loops and ...

A bar visibility representation of a graph G is a collection of horizontal bars in the plane corresponding to the vertices of G such that two vertices are adjacent if and only if the corresponding bars can be joined by an unobstructed vertical line segment. In a bar k-visibility graph, two vertices are adjacent if and only if the corresponding bars can be joined by a vertical line segment that ...

The BAR (Bin-Amphiphysin-Rvs) domain undergoes dimerization to produce a curved protein structure, which superimposes onto membrane through electrostatic interactions to sense and impart membrane curvature. In some cases, a BAR domain also possesses an amphipathic helix that inserts into the membrane to induce curvature. ACAP1 (Arfgap with Coil coil, Ankyrin repeat, and PH domain protein 1) con...

Citation Aaij, R., et al. "Measurement of the Ratio of Branching Fractions B([bar over B][superscript 0] D[superscript *+][superscript -][bar over ][subscript ])/B([bar over B][superscript 0] D[superscript *+][superscript -][bar over ][subscript ])." Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 111803 (September 2015). © 2015 CERN, for the LHCb Collaboration As Published http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.115.1118...

Isolated barred galaxies evolve by redistributing their internal angular momentum, which is emitted mainly at the inner disc resonances and absorbed mainly at the resonances in the outer disc and the halo. This causes the bar to grow stronger and its pattern speed to decrease with time. A massive, responsive halo enhances this process. I show correlations and trends between the angular momentum...

The purpose of this study was to examine the influence of two different bar diameters on neuromuscular activation and strength. The bar diameters used reflected a standard Olympic bar (28 mm (1.1 inch); THIN) and a larger fat bar (51 mm [2 inch]; THICK). Eighteen healthy men (age 25.06 1 years) were assessed for their maximal voluntary contraction (MVC) during a unilateral isometric bench press...

For decades, the grand-design SAB spiral galaxy NGC 5248 has been postulated to host a short bar of semimajor axis 22 (1.6 kpc). From dynamical and morphological arguments, however, we argue that its spiral structure is being driven by a large-scale bar whose corotation radius lies at ∼115 (8.6 kpc). Our estimate is based partially on a deep R-band image, which reveals that the feature previous...