The relationships between damage-induced electropotential waves (EPWs), sieve tube occlusion, and stop of mass flow were investigated in intact Cucurbita maxima plants. After burning leaf tips, EPWs propagating along the phloem of the main vein were recorded by extra- and intracellular microelectrodes. The respective EPW profiles (a steep hyperpolarization/depolarization peak followed by a prol...

A strain of camelpox virus (CMLV) isolated in the Sudan was attenuated by serial passage in Vero cell monolayers for use as a future vaccine strain. The safety and potency of passage 115 virus (designated Sudan CMLV/115) was tested. Camels inoculated with CMLV/115 showed no clinical disease or skin lesions, developed low-level antibodies and cell-mediated immune response and resisted challenge ...

Mass spectrometry(MS) is widely applied for high throughput proteomics analysis. When large-scale proteome analysis experiments are performed, it generates massive amount of data. To search these proteomics data against protein databases, fully automated database search algorithms, such as Mascot and SEQUEST are routinely employed. At present, it is critical to reduce false positives and false ...

Abstract In linear theory, the galaxy angular momentum vectors that originate from initial tidal interactions with surrounding matter distribution intrinsically develop perpendicular alignments directions of maximum compression, regardless mass. simulations, however, spins exhibit parallel in mass range lower than a certain threshold, which depends on redshift, web type, and background cosmolog...

One of the main endeavors in today’s Life Science remains the efficient sequencing of long DNA molecules. Today, most de-novo sequencing of DNA is still performed using electrophoresis-based Sanger Sequencing, based on the Sanger concept of 1977. Methods using mass spectrometry to acquire the Sanger Sequencing data are limited by short sequencing lengths of 15–25 nt. Recently, we proposed a new...

We consider the first passage percolation model on Z2. In this model, we assign independently to each edge e a passage time t(e) with a common distribution F . Let T (u, v) be the passage time from u to v. In this paper, we show that, whenever F (0) < pc, σ 2 (T ((0, 0), (n, 0))) ≥ C log n for all n ≥ 1. Note that if F satisfies an additional special condition, infsupp(F ) = r > 0 and F (r) > ~...

Continually arriving information is communicated through a network of n agents, with the value of information to the j’th recipient being a decreasing function of j/n, and communication costs paid by recipient. Regardless of details of network and communication costs, the social optimum policy is to communicate arbitrarily slowly. But selfish agent behavior leads to Nash equilibria which (in th...