Panulirus argus Virus 1 (PaV1) is a pathogenic virus that infects Caribbean spiny lobsters P. argus in the Florida Keys. We have developed a PCR detection assay for PaV1 for the purpose of studying the natural history of the virus and for monitoring the prevalence of infection. The detection of the virus in hemolymph and other tissues is based on the PCR amplification of a 499 bp product using ...

Many real-world tasks can be decomposed into pipelines of sequential operations (where subtasks may themselves be composed of one or more pipelines). JGram is a framework enabling rapid development of such multi-agent systems. Each agent’s services are specified in the JGram Description Language (JDL), and automatically converted into Java source templates. These services may be invoked synchro...

We review recent experimental results on hadronic decays and lifetimes of hadrons containing b and c quarks. 1 We discuss charm counting and the semileptonic branching fraction in B decays, the color suppressed amplitude in B and D decay, and the search for gluonic penguins in B decay. 1 Charm counting and the semileptonic branching fraction 1.1 The Experimental Observations A complete picture ...

A complete set of measurements of inclusive B decays is now emerging from the CLEO experiment. When combined with observations of lepton-charmed particle correlations these will provide a full picture of the weak interaction mechanisms which operate in B decay. The measurements of branching fractions for inclusive B decays are given in Table 5. Preliminary results on B → DX and B → DX branching...

The objective of this study was to examine how the respiratory metabolism of the snakehead Channa argus changed when it shifted from breathing water to breathing air, and how increased metabolic demands caused by temperature, feeding, and exhaustive exercise affect its survival in air. The results demonstrated that the oxygen consumption rate (MO2) of the snakehead was lower for aerial respirat...

Continuously monitoring large-scale aggregates over data streams is important for many stream processing applications, e.g. collaborative intelligence analysis, and presents new challenges to data management systems. The first challenge is to efficiently generate the updated aggregate values and provide the new results to users after new tuples arrive. We implemented an incremental aggregation ...

We review recent experimental results from CLEO and LEP experiments on hadronic decays of hadrons containing b quarks 1. We discuss charm counting and the semileptonic branching fraction in B decays and the color suppressed amplitude in B decay. 1 Charm counting and the semileptonic branching fraction A complete picture of inclusive B decay is beginning to emerge from recent measurements by CLE...

The Rochechourt impact structure in south-central France, with maximum diameter of 40–50 km, has previously been dated to within 1% uncertainty of the Triassic– Jurassic boundary, at which time ~30% of global genera became extinct. To evaluate the temporal relationship between the impact and the Triassic–Jurassic boundary at high precision, we have re-examined the structure’s age using multicol...

The pathogenic virus Panulirus argus virus 1 (PaV1) was first discovered in Caribbean spiny lobsters Panulirus argus from the Florida Keys (USA) in 1999 and has since been reported in Belize, Mexico, and Cuba; its distribution in the wider Caribbean is unknown. We collected tissue samples from adult spiny lobsters from 30 locations in 14 countries bordering the Caribbean Sea and used molecular ...