Generation of the 3' overhang is a critical event during homologous recombination (HR) repair of DNA double strand breaks. A 5'-3' nuclease, NurA, plays an important role in generating 3' single-stranded DNA during archaeal HR, together with Mre11-Rad50 and HerA. We have determined the crystal structures of apo- and dAMP-Mn(2)(+)-bound NurA from Pyrococcus furiousus (Pf NurA) to provide the bas...

We study the spatiotemporal structure of the biphoton entangled state generated by the four-wave mixing (FWM) process in a cold two-level atomic ensemble. We analyze, for the first time, the X-like shaped structure of the biphoton entangled state and the geometry of the biphoton correlation for different lengths and densities of the cold atomic ensemble. The propagation equations of the photon ...

We proposed an intensity-based morphological pyramid image registration algorithm. This approach utilizes the global affine transformation model, also considering radiometric changes between images. With the morphological pyramid structure, Levenberg-Marquardt optimization, and bilinear interpolation, this algorithm can be implemented hierarchically and iteratively with capability of measuring,...

Pyramid networks have long been proposed for parallel processing. However, when the network contains multiple pairs of source and destination nodes, it is often difficult to use the pyramid efficiently since most of the algorithms try to simultaneously use the apex for each pair of nodes. Therefore, there may exist a severe bottleneck in such circumstances. We propose a Least Level Minimal Rout...

Spatial analysis of salient feature points has been shown to be promising in image analysis and classification. In the past, spatial pyramid matching makes use of both of salient feature points and spatial multiresolution blocks to match between images. However, it is shown that different images or blocks can still have similar features using spatial pyramid matching. The analysis and matching ...

The enhanced pyramid graph was recently proposed as an interconnection network model in parallel processing for maximizing regularity in pyramid networks. We prove that there are two edge-disjoint Hamiltonian cycles in the enhanced pyramid networks. This investigation demonstrates its superior property in edge fault tolerance. This result is optimal in the sense that the minimum degree of the g...

This paper sheds light on the collapse of British American Investment conglomerate in Mauritius also known as BAI Group. According to Government Mauritius, Group was operating a vast Ponzi Scheme via its banking subsidiary Bramer Banking Corporation Ltd (BBCL). Furthermore, according report nTan Corporate Advisory Pte which is consultant Bank Group’s subsidiaries such Insurance (BAI Co. (Mtius)...

A k-nearest neighbor search algorithm for the Pyramid technique is presented. The Pyramid technique divides d-dimensional data space into 2d pyramids. Given a query point q, we initialize the radius of a range query to be the furthest distance of the k candidate nearest neighbors from q in the pyramid which q is in, then examine the rest of the pyramids one by one. After one pyramid is checked,...