The importin alpha family of nuclear-cytoplasmic transport factors mediates the nuclear localization of proteins containing classical nuclear localization signals. Metazoan animals express multiple importin alpha proteins, suggesting their possible roles in cell differentiation and development. Adult Caenorhabditis elegans hermaphrodites express three importin alpha proteins, IMA-1, IMA-2, and ...

Mitosis in animals starts with the disassembly of the nuclear pore complexes and the breakdown of the nuclear envelope. In contrast to many fungi, the corn smut fungus Ustilago maydis also removes the nuclear envelope. Here, we report on the dynamic behavior of the nucleoporins Nup214, Pom152, Nup133, and Nup107 in this "open" fungal mitosis. In prophase, the nuclear pore complexes disassembled...

Bilateral cochlear implant (CI) listeners can perform binaural tasks, but they are typically worse than normal-hearing (NH) listeners. To understand why this difference occurs and the mechanisms involved in processing dynamic binaural differences, interaural envelope correlation change discrimination sensitivity was measured in real and simulated CI users. In experiment 1, 11 CI (eight late dea...

Abstract Few-cycle, attosecond extreme ultraviolet (XUV) pulses in the strong field regime are becoming experimentally feasible, prompting theoretical investigating of ionization dynamics induced by such pulses. Here, we provide a systematic study atomic beyond slowly varying envelope approximation. We discuss properties XUV and report on temporal spectral modulations unique to nature pulse. By...

This letter presents the modeling, system identification and nonlinear model predictive control (NMPC) design for longitudinal, full envelope velocity of a small tiltwing hybrid unmanned aerial vehicle (H-UAV). A first-principles based dynamics is derived identified from flight data. It captures important aerodynamic effects including propeller-wing interaction stalled airfoils, but still simpl...