Long-read sequencing technologies have the potential to produce gold-standard de novo genome assemblies, but fully exploiting error-prone reads to resolve repeats remains a challenge. Aggressive approaches to repeat resolution often produce misassemblies, and conservative approaches lead to unnecessary fragmentation. We present HINGE, an assembler that seeks to achieve optimal repeat resolution...

Novel explicit rogue wave solutions of the coupled Hirota equations are obtained by using the Darboux transformation. In contrast to the fundamental Peregrine solitons and dark rogue waves, we present an interesting rogue-wave pair that involves four zero-amplitude holes for the coupled Hirota equations. It is significant that the corresponding expressions of the rogue-wave pair solutions conta...

Interactions with the physical world are deeply rooted in our sense of touch and depend on ensembles of somatosensory neurons that invade and innervate the skin. Somatosensory neurons convert the mechanical energy delivered in each touch into excitatory membrane currents carried by mechanoelectrical transduction (MeT) channels. Pacinian corpuscles in mammals and touch receptor neurons (TRNs) in...

JOURNAL OF PESTICIDE REFORM / WINTER 1991 / VOL. 11, NO. 4 Caroline Cox is JPR’s editor. pearance of peregrine falcons (see article beginning on p.), bald and golden eagles, ospreys, kestrels, and other predatory birds were recorded. DDT’s history certainly paints a frightening picture. But what about the many other pesticides in use today? How do they impact birds? This article is a brief over...

RHYS E. GREEN*†, IAN NEWTON‡, SUSANNE SHULTZ*§, ANDREW A. CUNNINGHAM§, MARTIN GILBERT¶, DEBORAH J. PAIN* and VIBHU PRAKASH** * Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, The Lodge, Sandy, Bedfordshire SG19 2 DL, UK; † Conservation Biology Group, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3EJ, UK; ‡ Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Monks Wood Research Station, Abbots Ripton, ...

Department of Chemistry, Maseno University, P.O. Box 333, 40105 Maseno, Kenya. Department of Chemical Sciences and Technology, Kenya Polytechnic University College, P.O. Box 52428-00200, City Square, Nairobi, Kenya. The Peregrine Fund, 5668 West Flying Hawk Lane, Boise Idaho, 83709, USA. Ornithology Section, Department of Zoology, National Museums of Kenya, P.O. Box 40658, Nairobi, Kenya. Helmh...

Reduced reproductive success of birds nesting near power lines has been documented but never directly attributed to electromagnetic fields (EMFs). Laboratory studies have identified EMF effects on embryonic development, but reproductive success of wild birds is dependent on additional factors, including fertility, egg size, hatching, and fledging success. We tested whether EMFs affect reproduct...

This paper presents analysis of the nonlinear interaction of a pair of solitary waves, the splitting of an isolated hump into a train of solitary waves, and the fission of a single solitary wave on reaching a shelf. Such interactions and splitting behaviour are usually described in the Korteweg–de Vries equation using the Hirota method, or more generally in terms of inverse scattering, a type o...

| This dissertation addresses performance analysis of order-picking workstations for automated warehouses. The first chapter provides a general overview of warehousing and order-picking systems (OPS). A classification of OPS is discussed. Literature regarding endof-aisle OPS, which is the type of system considered in this dissertation, is reviewed in greater detail. Typical issues for this syst...

We investigate gravitational lens models for the quadruply-lensed Cloverleaf BAL QSO H1413+1143 based on the HST WFPC/WFPC2 astrometric and photometric data of the system by Turnshek et al. and the HST NICMOS-2 data by Falco et al. The accurate image positions and the dust-extinction-corrected relative amplifications, along with a possible detection of the lensing galaxy in the infrared, permit...