Piscirickettsia salmonis, the causative agent of salmonid rickettsial septicemia (SRS), is a significant threat to the healthy and sustainable production of salmonid farming industry. This Gram-negative bacterium, originally isolated from a coho salmon in Southern Chile, produces a systemic infection characterized by colonization of several fish organs. P. salmonis is able to infect, survive, a...

Two of the major second generation standards, GSM and TDMA/1361, have built the foundation to offer a common global radio access for data services. Through use of a common physical layer, EDGE (Enhanced Data rates for GSM and TDMA/136 Evolution), both standards will have the same evolutionary path towards providing third-generation services. EDGE is currently subject to standardization in TIA T...

In this work, we propose a new distance measure for comparing two protein structures based on their contact map representations. We show that our novel measure, which we refer to as the maximum contact map overlap (max-CMO) metric, satisfies all properties of a metric on the space of protein representations. Having a metric in that space allows one to avoid pairwise comparisons on the entire da...

INTRODUCTION ........................................................................................................... 1348 I. THE EXISTING IMMUNITY LANDSCAPE DURING A DECLARED PUBLIC HEALTH EMERGENCY....................................................................................................... 1350 A. What Is a Public Health Emergency? ...................................................

Institutional theory suggests that firms imitate their peers when deciding to enter a foreign market in order to gain legitimacy and cope with uncertainty. There is little investigation, however, on how home country culture affects a firm’s mimetic behavior as a response to institutional influences. To understand culture’s role, this paper examines the effect of the cultural environment on mime...

2014 The mechanical properties of random short carbon fiber composites have been studied experimentally in relation with the electrical properties (continuity) in three different states : 1) fibers in a hard expoxyde matrix, 2) fibers in a well formed gel, 3) fibers sediment in a viscous liquid. Although there is no precise correlation between the electrical percolation threshold and the contin...

We have obtained evidence that a known intracellular component of the cadherin cell-cell adhesion machinery, beta-catenin, contributes to the development of the body axis in the frog Xenopus laevis. Vertebrate beta-catenin is homologous to the Drosophila segment polarity gene product armadillo, and to vertebrate plakoglobin (McCrea, P. D., C. W. Turck, and B. Gumbiner. 1991. Science (Wash. DC)....

By J. BEC, L. B IFERALE, G. BOFFETTA, A. CELANI, M. CENCINI, A. LANOTTE, S. MUSACCHIO AND F. TOSCHI CNRS Observatoire de la Côte d’Azur, B.P. 4229, 06304 Nice Cedex 4, France Department of Physics and INFN, University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, Via della Ricerca Scientifica 1, 00133 Roma, Italy Department of Physics and INFN, University of Torino, Via Pietro Giuria 1, 10125, Torino, Italy CNRS, INL...

Starting from a relativistic phenomenology of anyons in crystals, we discuss the concept of relativistic interaction and the need to unify electromagnetism and gravitation within the Spencer cohomology of Lie equations. Then, from the sophisticated non-linear Spencer complex of the Poincaré and conformal Lie pseudogroups, we build up a non-linear relative Goldschmidt-Spencer complex assigned to...