Maintenance of spindle attachment to the cortex and formation of the cleavage furrow around the protruded spindle are essential for polar body extrusion (PBE) during meiotic maturation of oocytes. Although spindle movement to the cortex has been well-studied, how the spindle is maintained at the cortex during PBE is unknown. Here, we show that activation of Diaphanous-related formin mediated by...

Programming by example (PBE) literally means making “programs” from examples, but PBE techniques are also useful for automating text composition tasks by creating editing procedures from the history of a user’s editing operations. Composition by example (CBE) is a practical approach to improve the efficiency of text composition tasks using various simple PBE techniques. Thousands of people are ...

Mean-field methods, such as the Poisson-Boltzmann equation (PBE), are often used to calculate the electrostatic properties of molecular systems. In the past two decades, an enhancement of the PBE, the size-modified Poisson-Boltzmann equation (SMPBE), has been reported. Here, the PBE and the SMPBE are reevaluated for realistic molecular systems, namely, lipid bilayers, under eight different sets...

OBJECTIVES Cervical cancer is a malignancy that is the second most common cause of death from cancer in women throughout the world. Paederus beetle (Paederus fuscipes) extract (PBE), contains bioactive compounds such as pederine which has cytotoxic properties and blocks DNA and protein synthesis at very low concentrations. In this investigation we tried to determine the effects co-treatment wit...

OBJECTIVES The present study was designed to characterize Arizona schools with high rates of permanent PBE among kindergartners, and to determine the degree to which they aggregate across the state. METHODS Data for permanent personal belief exemptions (PBE) were accessed through the 2010-2011 kindergarten Immunization Data Report (IDR) from the Arizona Department of Health Services (AZDHS), ...

In this work, we dissect the performance of two modern Perdew-Burke-Ernzerhof (PBE)-based double-hybrid (DH) density functionals to predict the isotropic and anisotropic polarizabilities of water nanoclusters (H2O)n [n = 2-6]. The considered models include the cubic integrand (CI) and quadratic integrand (QI) functions as well as the spin-opposite-scaled (SOS) scheme for perturbative correlatio...

This chapter describes programming by example (PBE) techniques to automate daily Web browsing tasks. A number of research efforts have tried to solve two major problems of PBE: difficulties in inferring user intent behind examples and low accessibility to application’s internal data. However, these problems can be avoided in the Web-browsing domain, and practical PBE systems can be developed. I...

Electrostatic potential as well as the local volume charge density are computed for a macromolecule by solving the Poisson-Boltzmann equation (PBE) using the finite element method (FEM). As a verification, our numerical results for a one dimensional PBE, which corresponds to an infinite-length macromolecule, are compared with the existing analytical solution and good agreement is found. As a ma...