Comparative phylogenetic analyses of the R2R3-MYB transcription factor family revealed that five subgroups were preferentially found in woody species and were totally absent from Brassicaceae and monocots (Soler et al., 2015). Here, we analyzed one of these subgroups (WPS-I) for which no gene had been yet characterized. Most Eucalyptus members of WPS-I are preferentially expressed in the vascul...

Plants are sessile organisms that cannot escape from stressful environments, such as drought, high salinity, high temperature, and shortage of essential minerals in the soil. Hence, plants have evolved processes that protect them from these harmful conditions. One of these major processes is autophagy (whichmeans, “self-eating”), amechanism that destroys specific compounds that participate in e...

Thermostats are primary interfaces for occupants of office buildings to express their comfort preferences. However, standard thermostats are often ineffective due to inaccessibility, lack of information, or limited responsiveness, leading to occupant discomfort. Software thermostats based on web or smartphone applications provide alternative interfaces to occupants with minimal deployment cost....

Abstract This article analyzes the effects of COVID-19 on women and girls. It examines policy responses to pandemic crisis its implications women, peace, security (WPS) agenda in postwar Nepal Sri Lanka. Building our previous work Lanka, we rely secondary studies, news sources, governmental nongovernmental organization reports social media from March 2020 through 2022 demonstrate argument that ...

Engagement with the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda by military actors has caused concern among some of its civil society advocates. For example, NATO adopted WPS as an increasingly visible part self-narrative. Yet what had distinguished NATO’s engagement from many other is that it came without involvement. The establishment a Civil Society Advisory Panel (CSAP) on in 2014 therefore high...

Keyword list: HIDENETS, dependability, communication systems, ad hoc networks, wireless, middlewaresolutions, car-to-car communication, applications, use cases, business impact, preliminary reference modelThis document provides the starting point for the development of dependability solutions in theHIDENETS project with the following contents:(1) A conceptual framework is define...

Wave plasma sources (WPSs) were first proposed in the 1970s for electric propulsion (EP), and these research development processes culminated flight test 2021 of WPS-based thruster REGULUS. Recently, new approaches to WPS use have emerged—multiple schemes EPs that can generate propelling forces multiple directions within a single head, regarded as breakthrough technology in-space systems (PSs)....

Weyl nodes can be classified into zero-dimensional (0D) points (WPs), 1D nodal lines (WNL) and 2D surfaces (WNS), which possess finite Chern numbers. Up to date, the largest number of WPs identified in semimetals is 4, thought a maximal value for linearly crossing solids. On other hand, whether numbers nonzero-dimensional linear objects have one upper limit still an open question. In this work,...

BACKGROUND Estimates for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-1 and hepatitis C virus (HCV) transfusion-transmitted risks have relied on incidence derived from repeat donor histories and imprecise estimates for infectious, preseroconversion window periods (WPs). STUDY DESIGN AND METHODS By use of novel approaches, WPs were estimated by back-extrapolation of acute viral replication dynamics. Inc...

WiFi APs are ideal targets of attack. They are the main gateway to residential networks with direct access to home computers, as such they are highly prone to man-in-themiddle attacks. They are also wirelessly interconnected, independent of the wired Internet. WiFi APs can transmit at one Watt, they do not run anti-virus software, do not have an automatic updating mechanism, and are rarely patc...