Most mammalian dendrites have surprisingly few copy numbers of mRNAs relative to the large number of synapses and consequently, at any given moment, the majority of synapses do not have a repertoire of mRNAs within their immediate locale capable of initiating translation-dependent plasticity. The dimensions of the translationally serviceable locale around synapses have boundary parameters that ...

— We discuss a local reduction theorem for 0-parameter solutions of a higher order Painlevé equation and its underlying Lax pair near a simple turning point of the first kind when the size of the Lax pair is greater than 2. As a typical example of such higher order Painlevé equations the Noumi-Yamada systems are mainly considered. Résumé (Sur une réduction locale au voisinage d’un point tournan...

INTRODUCTION A holy grail for environmental microbiologists is being able to predict the effects of any given microbial community on a particular environment. In an era of increasingly dramatic changes in global climate, this goal is becoming evermore important. It is now well accepted that microorganisms have had and continue to have a profound influence on shaping the chemistry of the Earth. ...