PURPOSE We have previously shown that lactose, but not mannose, promotes the assembly of nascent photoreceptor outer segments in the absence of the retinal pigment epithelium (RPE). The purpose of the present study was to determine if, in addition to the improved outer segment assembly observed in the presence of lactose, biosynthetic changes in Muller cells could also be detected. METHODS Th...

This paper presents the design, layout, and testability analysis of delay-insensitive circuits on cellular arrays for nanocomputing system design. In delay-insensitive circuits the delay on a signal path does not affect the correctness of circuit behavior. The combination of delayinsensitive circuit style and cellular arrays is a useful step to implement nanocomputing systems. In the approach p...

Ocular surgeries and trauma predispose the eye to develop infectious endophthalmitis, which often leads to vision loss. The mechanisms of initiation of innate defense in this disease are not well understood but are presumed to involve retinal glial cells. We hypothesize that retinal Muller glia can recognize and respond to invading pathogens via TLRs, which are key regulators of the innate immu...

Addition of clindamycin to whole-cell cultures of Streptomyces coelicolor MUller resulted in the loss of in vitro activity against organisms sensitive to clindamycin. Incubation of such culture filtrates with alkaline phosphatase generated a biologically active material identified as clindamycin. Fermentation broths containing inactivated clindamycin yielded clindamycin 3-phosphate, the structu...

The punctured binary Reed-Muller code is cyclic and was generalized into the punctured generalized ReedMuller code over GF(q) in the literature. The major objective of this paper is to present another generalization of the punctured binary Reed-Muller code. Another objective is to construct a family of reversible cyclic codes that are related to the newly generalized Reed-Muller codes. Index Te...

These words from Bernstein set the theoretical context of this paper, concerned with how interdisciplinarity is recontextualized in an undergraduate degree, where knowledge recontextualization is close to, and often operates in parallel with, knowledge production. This research is situated within a university undergoing dramatic curriculum change and its subject is the curriculum, both espoused...

In this paper, we discuss definitions, features, and relationships of Reed-Muller transforms, Reed-Muller codes and their generalizations to multiple-valued cases, and Reed-Muller decision diagrams. The novelty in this primarily review paper resides in putting together these concepts in the same context and providing a uniform point of view to their definition in terms of a convolutionwise mult...