Bacteriophages have been shown to influence the evolution of their host and, in several cases, have a major effect on pathogenicity and/or virulence of bacterial pathogens. Several mechanisms allow phages to change the biology and associated phenotypes of their host. This chapter aims at explaining these mechanisms in the context of Listeria evolution and pathogenesis, using examples from other...

My main interest is analytic number theory and random matrix theory (especially the distribution of zeros of L-functions and the eigenvalues of random matrix ensembles); I am also studying several equidistribution problems in analysis and probability, and I am working on applied problems in probability, statistics, graph theory, cryptography and linear programming where the tools and techniques...

We conducted an ecoregional assessment of sagebrush (Artemisia spp.) ecosystems in the Wyoming Basins and surrounding regions (WBEA) to determine broad-scale species-environmental relationships. Our goal was to assess the potential influence from threats to the sagebrush ecosystem on associated wildlife through the use of spatially explicit occurrence and abundance models. These models were dev...

The original version of this article unfortunately contained a mistake. Paul Clement and Steven De Vleeschouwer were not listed among the authors.

Let T be a set of terms over an arbitrary (but finite) number of Boolean variables. Let U(T ) be the set of truth assignments that satisfy exactly one term in T . Motivated by questions in computational complexity, Rudich conjectured that there exist , δ > 0 such that if T is any set of terms for which U(T ) contains at least a (1− )-fraction of all truth assignments, then there exists a term t...

A Gordon–Coons-type surface construction starts from three differentiable triangular surface patches, which are defined on the same triangular parameter domain. If one boundary curve of each fits a curvilinear triangle, then the defined surface interpolates to these curves. The connection between the resulting surface and the constituents is C1 continuous along the common boundary curves with t...