Stomatal closure in response to the hormone abscisic acid (ABA) is mediated by a complex signaling network involving both calcium-dependent and calciumindependent pathways (Assmann and Shimazaki, 1999; Webb et al., 2001), activated by several signaling intermediates (Schroeder et al., 2001) that include hydrogen peroxide (Miao et al., 2000; Pei et al., 2000; Zhang et al., 2001) and lipids such ...

The HER-2/neu oncogene (c-erbB-2) is a member of the epidermal growth factor receptor family and encodes a 185-kDa transmembrane glycoprotein with tyrosine kinase activity (Schechter et al., 1984; Akiyama et al., 1986). HER-2/neu is mapped to the long arm of chromosome 17 (17q21) (Muleris et al., 1997) and its protein product is involved in signal transduction (Yarden, 2001; Marmor et al., 2004...

Haptic interfaces are devices that allow human-machine interaction through force and touch. Combined haptic and visual interfaces have been around for decades. Yet, despite an enormous increase in research activity in the last few years, the science of haptics is still a technology in its infancy. The majority of commercially available haptic devices operate based on a principle of point intera...

Regarding our article on the association of androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) with increased Alzheimer’s disease risk, Bowen et al, Froehner and Wirth, Leow et al, and Brady et al highlight a number of significant considerations that will prove important in the design of future studies that investigate the association of ADT and Alzheimer’s disease. We agree with Bowen et al and Leow et al tha...

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Defects in myosin VIIa are responsible for Usher Syndrome 1B (Weil et al., 1995). Human Usher syndrome (USH), named after the British ophthalmologist Charles Usher (Usher, 1914), is the most common hereditary form of combined blindand deafness (≈ 50 % of cases in the developed countries). USH designates a group of clinically and genetically heterogeneous disorders with hearing loss and retiniti...

It has been well-known that tight relationship exists between chaos and cryptography [Brown & Chua, 1996]. Many fundamental characteristics of chaos, such as ergodicity, mixing property and sensitivity to initial conditions/control parameters [Hao, 1993], can be connected with some cryptographic properties of good ciphers, such as confusion/diffusion, balance and avalanche property [Schneier, 1...

We test the correlation found by Reichart et al. (2001) between time variability and peak luminosity of Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs). Recently Guidorzi et al. (2005) found that this still holds for a sample of 32 GRBs with spectroscopic redshift, although with a larger scatter than that originally found by Reichart et al. (2001). However Guidorzi et al. (2005) also found that a power law does not pr...

Faith et al. (2003) strongly criticize our paper (Posadas et al. 2001). Their criticisms are based on what they consider our “ill definitions” and “erroneous applications” of the words complementarity, endemism, and biodiversity. The objectives of our reply to Faith et al. are to demonstrate that their criticisms do not satisfy epistemological and methodological tenets and to compare some aspec...