It’s a mammal Jim, but not as we know it... Mammals are typically characterised as furry and warmblooded. The naked mole-rat is neither of these. Being underground and surrounded by hundreds of brothers and sisters, there is little fluctuation in surrounding temperature and they have all but lost the ability to regulate their body temperature physiologically. Living in the dark, they can no lon...

We consider online competitive algorithms for the problem of collecting weighted items froma dynamic set S, when items are added to or deleted from S over time. The objective isto maximize the total weight of collected items. We study the general version, as well asvariants with various restrictions, including the following: the uniform case, when all itemshave the same weight, ...

acrjourna erogeneous nuclear ribonucleoprotein A2/B1 (hnRNP A2/B1) has been reported to be overexpressed in ancer and in other cancers such as breast, pancreas, and liver. However, a mechanism linking hnRNP A2/ rexpression and progression to cancer has not yet been definitively established. To elucidate this mech, we have silenced hnRNPA2/B1 mRNA in non–small-cell lung cancer cell lines A549, H...