Protein translocation occurs across the energy-conserving bacterial membrane at the SecYEG channel. The crystal structure of the channel has revealed a possible mechanism for gating and opening. This study evaluates the plug hypothesis using cysteine crosslink experiments in combination with various allelic forms of the Sec complex. The results demonstrate that the SecY plug domain moves away f...

The configuration and maintenance of fieldbus networks is a difficult and error-prone task. Plug-andPlay comes to the rescue by automating node identification, integration and configuration tasks that were originally done manually. This paper proposes a Plugand-Play functionality for the time-triggered fieldbus protocol TTP/A that works during operation concurrently to real-time communication o...

Polyandry is widespread across animal taxa, and subjects males to intense post-copulatory sexual selection which favors adaptations that enhance a male’s paternity success, either by decreasing the risk of sperm competition and/or by increasing the competitiveness of the ejaculate. Copulatory plugs deposited by males are thought to have evolved in the context of sperm competition. However, expe...

Digital documents often do not exist in isolation but are implicitly or explicitly linked to parts of other documents. Nevertheless, most existing document formats only support links to web resources but not to parts of third-party documents. An open cross-document link service should address the multitude of existing document formats and be extensible to support emerging document formats and m...

In spite of existence of many standard security mechanisms for ensuring secure eCommerce business, users still fall prey for online attacks. One such simple but powerful attack is ‘Phishing’. Phishing is the most alarming threat in the e-Commerce world and effective anti-phishing technique is the need of the hour. This paper focuses on a novel anti-phishing browser plug-in which uses informatio...

Plug flow in microcapillaries or microchannels offers significant advantages for the development of microfluidic applications and recently triggers many interests and studies. Recirculation is formed within liquid plugs due to the presence of interfaces. This paper presents an analytical model to investigate the recirculation flow and the flow resistance in microcapillaries with circular cross ...