BACKGROUND Carbon assimilation and leaf-to-fruit sugar transport are, along with plant water status, the driving mechanisms for fruit growth. An integrated comprehension of the plant water and carbon relationships is therefore essential to better understand water and dry matter accumulation. Variations in stem diameter result from an integrated response to plant water and carbon status and are ...

In this work, we analyze all existing RSA-CRT countermeasures against the Bellcore attack that use binary self-secure exponentiation algorithms. We test their security against a powerful adversary by simulating fault injections in a fault model that includes random, zeroing, and skipping faults at all possible fault locations. We find that most of the countermeasures are vulnerable and do not p...

Water stresses reduce plant growth but there is no consensus on whether carbon metabolism has any role in this reduction. Sugar starvation resulting from stomatal closure is often proposed as a cause of growth impairment under long-term or severe water deficits. However, growth decreases faster than photosynthesis in response to drought, leading to increased carbohydrate stores under short-term...

Path-oriented scheduling methods, such as trace scheduling and hyperblock scheduling, use speculation to extract instruction-level parallelism from control-intensive programs. These methods predict important execution paths in the current scheduling scope using execution prooling or frequency estimation. Aggressive speculation is then applied to the important execution paths, possibly at the co...

In this paper a rapid method for residual cure stress analysis from composite manufacturing is presented. The uses high-fidelity path-dependent kinetics subroutine implemented in ABAQUS to calibrate linear elastic model. model accounts the tool-part interaction, forming pressure, and changing modulus during rubbery phase of matrix curing. Results are used calculate equivalent lamina-wise coeffi...

Bacterial chemotaxis is a paradigm for how environmental signals modulate cellular behavior. Although the network underlying this process has been studied extensively, we do not yet have an end-to-end understanding of chemotaxis. Specifically, how the rotational states of a cell's flagella cooperatively determine whether the cell 'runs' or 'tumbles' remains poorly characterized. Here, we measur...

An in vitro model simulating two-compartment pharmacokinetics was used to study the antibacterial activity of lomefloxacin after single oral doses of 200 and 400 mg. Lomefloxacin produced reliable bactericidal activity against gram-negative aerobic bacteria and staphylococci. Bacterial strains for which MICs were less than 0.5 microgram/ml were inhibited with both dosing schedules. Doubling the...

A CAD tool, MOSGRAD, that can be used to simulate the effects of distributed two-dimensional systematic and random variations in device parameters on the performance of matchingcritical circuits has been developed. In addition to applications for layouts with conventional rectangular transistors, this tool can predict the performance of non-conventional circuit structures in which multiple drai...

One case of a syndrome simulating a systemic disease is reported. An HLA-B, patient presented with apparent toxoplasmosis, retinal vein occlusion, autoantibodies against cephalin, contact factors and lipoproteins, immune complexes, rheumatoid factor, and cryoprecipitate. A representation of the immunological mechanisms involved is proposed.