Bacillus sphaericus strains that produce the binary toxin (Bin) are highly toxic to Culex and Anopheles mosquitoes, and have been used since the late 1980s as a biopesticide for the control of these vectors of infectious disease agents. The Bin toxin produced by these strains targets mosquito larval midgut epithelial cells where it binds to Cpm1 (Culex pipiens maltase 1) a digestive enzyme, and...

Purpose. The Pediatric Vision Scanner (PVS) detects strabismus by identifying ocular fixation in both eyes simultaneously. This study was undertaken to assess the ability of the PVS to identify patients with amblyopia or strabismus, particularly anisometropic amblyopia with no measurable strabismus. Methods. The PVS test, administered from 40 cm and requiring 2.5 seconds of attention, generated...

We analyzed the variability of spike counts and the coding capacity of simultaneously recorded pairs of neurons in the macaque supplementary motor area (SMA). We analyzed the mean-variance functions for single neurons, as well as signal and noise correlations between pairs of neurons. All three statistics showed a strong dependence on the bin width chosen for analysis. Changes in the correlatio...

The Generalized Bin Packing Problem (GBPP) is a novel packing problem arising in many transportation and logistic settings, characterized by multiple item and bin attributes and by the joint presence of both compulsory and non-compulsory items. We introduce a change in the definition of the problem that does not impact either on its feasible solution set or on its optimal solutions, but guarant...

Lysinibacillus sphaericus produces the mosquito larvicidal binary toxin consisting of BinA and BinB, which are both required for toxicity against Culex and Anopheles larvae. The molecular mechanisms behind Bin toxin-induced damage remain unexplored. We used whole-genome microarray-based transcriptome analysis to better understand how Culex larvae respond to Bin toxin treatment at the molecular ...

This thesis presents the development of an on-demand source of time-bin entangled photons, created from the biexciton-exciton radiative cascade in a single quantum dot. To achieve a source of time-bin entangled photons, we determined that the quantum dot must have two key properties: a dephasing time that is longer than the lifetime and high count rates, which are necessary to perform the corre...

Recently, Renault (2016) studied the dual bin packing problem in the per-request advice model of online algorithms. He showed that given O(1/ǫ) advice bits for each input item allows approximating the dual bin packing problem online to within a factor of 1 + ǫ. Renault asked about the advice complexity of dual bin packing in the tape-advice model of online algorithms. We make progress on this q...

In many places, it can be seen that the Municipal garbage bins are overflowing and they are not cleaned at proper time. As a result of which the consequences are severe. It includes overflow of garbage which results in land pollution, spread of diseases. It also creates unhygienic conditions for people, and ugliness to that place. There should be a system that can monitor the bin and can give t...

Wild-type beta and gamma corynebacteriophages are heteroimmune and infect lysogens of each other productively. Unlike their wild-type counterparts, the bin mutants of each phage are excluded in lysogens carrying the heteroimmune phage. The wild-type phages overcome exclusion by means of the bin gene product which appears to act as an antirepressor. When repression is lifted, exclusion of bin mu...