Milk vetch dwarf virus (MDV) is a member of the proposed genus Nanovirus, and its genome is composed of multiple, circular ssDNA components of about 1 kb. We have cloned and sequenced ten ssDNA components and designated them MDV-C1 to C10. Each DNA component contains one potential major open reading frame, and contains a putative stem-loop structure in the non-coding region. Notably, four compo...

Lipid droplets (LDs) are storage organelles consisting of a neutral lipid core surrounded by a phospholipid monolayer and a set of LD-specific proteins. Most LD components are synthesized in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER), an organelle that is often physically connected with LDs. How LD identity is established while maintaining biochemical and physical connections with the ER is not known. Here...

To become reality pervasive computing, among other things, needs new kinds of middleware. In this paper we present an important middleware that helps pervasive computing applications reason about events using time, location, and identity information. The middleware consists of reasoning operations, event store, participation protocol, and communication model. The reasoning operations provide th...

the present study is aimed at assessing the state of national identity among female students of ahwaz islamic azad university and explores the social factors affecting upon it. the statistical society consisted of 8532 students at the three levels of associate diploma undergraduate and master degrees. the research method in this study is a “survey” and collection of data has been carried out by...

Over the last century in Karn. āt .ik 1 music, the method of understanding rāga has been to break it down into its various components, svara, scale, gamaka, and phrases. In this paper, an attempt is made to define the abstract concept of rāga in its entirety within the aesthetics of Karn. āt.ik music considering the various components and their symbiotic relationship. This paper also attempts t...

Email phishing attacks are one of today’s most common and costly forms of digital identity theft, where an adversary tricks a user into revealing their personal information by impersonating an established company. Such attacks could be mitigated with digitally-signed emails, if these signatures did not: (1) destroy the traditional repudiability of email, and (2) require the unrealistic, widespr...

The Staphylococcus aureus gamma-hemolysin comprises two polypeptides, whereas the gamma-hemolysin locus (hlg) contains three open reading frames. The hlgA and hlgB genes encode the gamma 1 and gamma 2 components, respectively. The HlgB protein (gamma 2) has 27% residue identity with S. aureus alpha-toxin. Surprisingly, hlgB and hlgC are 98.5 and 99.1% identical to the lukF and lukS genes, respe...

Uterine secretions were obtained from 110 women and analysed by counterimmunoelectrophoresis for the occurrence of precipitation reactions against Actinomyces israelii antigens. Precipitation reactions were found in secretions from seven women and a correlation was found between these reactions and long term use of plastic intrauterine devices. The precipitating components could not be proved t...

Principal Component Analysis (PCA) has been widely used for efficient representation of face images data in a low dimensional subspace. In this study, we use PCA to analyse different properties of faces, such as gender, ethnicity, age and identity. Using Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA), we show that PCA efficiently encodes information related to different properties, different components of ...

The problem you need to solve is to determine the identity of the individual components from your mixture. You will use several different techniques today and compare your experimental results to those of known standards. From this data you should be able to identify all of the components of your original mixture. Keep careful records of your observations and your interpretation of spectra so t...