In this issue of JMB, Rajendar and Lucius report a study of themechanism of polypeptide translocation catalyzed by the Escherichia coli ClpA enzyme—the motor component of the ATP-dependent protease, ClpAP. ATP-dependent proteases play important roles in protein turnover and share a common architecture across organisms. ClpAP is composed of the hexameric AAA+ motor protein ClpA and the tetradeca...

A 45-year-old woman presented with kissing aneurysms located at the junctions of the internal carotid artery and the duplicate anterior choroidal arteries manifesting as acute subarachnoid hemorrhage. The aneurysms were clipped during temporary occlusion of the internal carotid artery. Surgery for kissing aneurysms requires special consideration including analysis of the anatomical relationship...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS Plants need some kind of stored resources to resprout after shoot destruction. The aim of this study was to determine the relative importance of carbohydrate and nitrogen (N) storage levels for their ability to resprout. METHODS A shoot clipping experiment was conducted on Quercus crispula seedlings, which were grown in a factorial experimental design, with two light level...

Although resprouting plays an important role in facilitating persistence of damaged seedlings, the functional attributes of cotyledons and taproots during resprouting of 1-year oak seedlings are not well explored. In this study, cotyledons were removed from Quercus mongolica seedlings to explore resprouting in response to simulated disturbance as a function of shoot clipping, and to examine the...

Clipping is a fast, common technique for resolving occlusions. It only requires simple interaction, is easily understandable, and thus has been very popular for volume exploration. However, a drawback of clipping is that the technique indiscriminately cuts through features. Illustrators, for example, consider the structures in the vicinity of the cut when visualizing complex spatial data and ma...

There are various methods to improve signal under the clipped environment of voiced sound in the voice signal processing. In the case of the majority of clipping signal restoration, it will be concentrated in sound quality deterioration of low frequency as they are converged into voiced sound from the characteristic viewpoint of sound quality deterioration. Therefore, in the case of clipping of...

Cerebral arteriovenous malformations (AVMs) are a type of vascular anomaly consisting of large intertwined vascular growth (the nidus) that are prone to serious hemorrhaging and can result in patient death if left untreated. Intervention through surgical clipping of feeding and draining vessels to the nidus is a common treatment. However, identification of which vessels to clip is challenging e...

Long term evolution (LTE) is the last step toward the 4th generation (4G) of radio technologies designed to increase the capacity and speed of mobile telephone networks. LTE has adopted orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) for the downlink transmission. OFDM meets the LTE requirement for spectrum flexibility and enables cost-efficient solutions for very wide carriers with high peak...

This study compared preferred volume setting for linear peak clipping, compression limiting, and wide dynamic range compression (WDRC) amplification and quantified speech audibility at the preferred volume setting for each amplification type. Ten listeners with mild-to-moderate hearing loss were fitted monaurally with a behind-the-ear hearing aid programmed sequentially with WDRC, compression l...

BACKGROUND Management of intracranial aneurysms has made debates about the best treatment modality in recent years. The aim of this study was to compare the interventional outcomes between two groups of patients, one treated with endovascular coiling and the other treated with surgical clipping. METHODS This prospective study included 48 patients with intracranial aneurysms who underwent endo...