This paper describes MEXAR2, a software tool that is currently used to synthesize the operational commands for data downlink from the on-board memory of the MARS EXPRESS spacecraft to the ground stations. The system generates from a two steps effort. A first study, performed before the launch of MARS EXPRESS, has produced a formalization of the memory dumping problem and developed the MEXAR pro...

This paper studies the uniqueness of two non-integral finite ordered meromorphic functions with finitely many poles when they share sets. Also, it provides an answer to a question posed by Gross for particular class functions. Moreover, some observations are made on results due Sahoo and Karmakar, Acta Univ. Sapient. Math., doi:10.2478/ausm-2018-0025; Sarkar, Bol. Soc. Mat. Mex., doi:10.1007/s4...

The objective of this study was to implement a semimechanistic pharmacokinetic-pharmacodynamic (PK-PD) model to describe the effects of ciprofloxacin against Pseudomonas aeruginosa in vitro. Time-kill curves were generated with an initial inoculum close to 5 x 10(6)CFU/ml of P. aeruginosa PAO1 and constant ciprofloxacin concentrations between 0.12 and 4.0 microg/ml (corresponding to 0.5x and 16...

Inter-simple sequence repeats markers were used to determinate the genetic variability of Fasciola hepatica populations recovered from sheep and cattle from Spain (Sp1, Sp2, Sp3 and Sp4), UK (Eng), Ireland (Ir) and Mexico (Mex). Twenty five primers were tested but only five produced 39 reproducible bands, being 71.79% polymorphic bands. This percentage ranged from 10.26% in Sp4 to 48.72% in Sp1...

Germ cells arise during early C. elegans embryogenesis from an invariant sequence of asymmetric divisions that separate germ cell precursors from somatic precursors. We show that maternal-effect lethal mutations in the gene pos-1 cause germ cell precursors to inappropriately adopt somatic cell fates. During early embryogenesis, pos-1 mRNA and POS-1 protein are present predominantly in the germ ...

At least four broad-spectrum efflux pumps (Mex) are involved in elevated intrinsic antibiotic resistance as well as in acquired multidrug resistance in Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Substrate specificity of the Mex pumps has been shown to be determined by the cytoplasmic membrane component (MexB, MexD, MexF, and MexY) of the tripartite efflux pump system. Alignment of their amino acid sequences with ...

Complexes of RNA and RNA binding proteins form large-scale supramolecular structures under many cellular contexts. In Caenorhabditis elegans, small germ granules are present in the germ line that share characteristics with liquid droplets that undergo phase transitions. In meiotically-arrested oocytes of middle-aged hermaphrodites, the germ granules appear to aggregate or condense into large as...

Genetic polymorphisms of very important pharmacogenomic (VIP) variants are important for personalized medicine. However, these have not been extensively studied in the Tibetan population. In this study, 82 VIP variants were detected in the Tibetan and Han (HAN) populations from northwestern China. Subsequently, we compared the differences between the Tibetan population and ten populations, incl...

This note describes an implementation of the Scale-Invariant Feature Transform (SIFT) detector and descriptor [1]. The implementation, which is compatible with D. Lowe’s implementation, is distributed along with the source code. Designed for the MATLAB environment, the code is broken into several M and MEX files that enable running selected portions of the algorithm. The SIFT detector and descr...

Abstract A new manufacturing wave concerning the Additive Manufacturing of sensors is spreading: several benefits, such as cost, time, and manual task reduction, can be achieved. The aim present research one-shot a low-cost capacitive sensor for liquid level sensing. Material extrusion (MeX) technology was used to fabricate proposed (composed flexible substrate, two conductive electrodes, top c...