Industry-led technical standardization is often cited as an example for governance without government and the Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB) Project is often presented as a particularly successful case of such private governance. Succeeding the spectacular failure of the government-led high-definition television standardization project in European, the successes of the industry-led DVB Projec...

We report on distance fields, i.e. 2D or 3D arrays which hold signed/unsigned distance to objects/features of interest Such fields are a powerful tool for the accomplishment of different tasks in 2D/3D image processing and analysis, computer vision, visualization and graphics. 1 Distance Transforms Brute force distance calculations are very expensive, since for each voxel of the field the dista...

Background: The main goal of Joint Genome Institute’s (JGI) Microbial Genome Program is to deliver finished microbial genomes faster, cheaper and better quality. Traditional method of producing multiple subclone libraries and Sanger reads is costly and also time consuming. 454 Life sciences has recently developed a highly scalable, highly parallel high throughput system which does not require t...

The laminin 5 (Ln-5) 2 chain and matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) MMP-2 and membrane type 1 (MT1)-MMP act cooperatively and are required for highly aggressive melanoma cells to engage in vasculogenic mimicry when cultured on a threedimensional matrix. Furthermore, generation of Ln-5 2 chain promigratory fragments by MMP-2 and MT1MMP proteolysis is necessary for an aggressive tumor cell-precondi...

Perfectionism is a multidimensional personality construct that has been linked with various forms of maladjustment. In this article, we discuss the role of perfectionism as a maladaptive factor in sports and exercise, and we describe a phenomenon we identify as the perfectionism paradox. We note that even though certain sports require athletes to achieve perfect performance outcomes, the tenden...

The cos site of the bacteriophage chromosome contains the sites required for DNA processing and packaging during virion assembly. cos is composed of three subsites, cosQ, cosN, and cosB. cosQ is required for the termination of chromosome packaging. Previous studies have shown cosQ mutations to be suppressed in three ways: by a local suppressor within cosQ; by an increase in the length of the ch...

In short-term serial recall, similar-sounding items are remembered less well than items that do not sound alike. This phonological similarity effect has been observed with lists composed only of similar items, and also with lists that mix together similar and dissimilar items. An additional consistent finding with mixed lists has been an effect we refer to as “dissimilar immunity”. Dissimilar i...