Michael D. Byrne, Organizer and Chair (Rice University) Alex Kirlik, Co-Chair (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) Terry Allard (Federal Aviation Administration) David C. Foyle (NASA Ames Research Center) and Becky L. Hooey (San Jose State University Research Foundation at NASA Ames Research Center) Kevin A. Gluck (Air Force Research Laboratory) Christopher D. Wickens, Alion Science & Tech...

Cranial nerve VII (facial) motorneurons begin extending axons through rhombomeres 4 and 5 (R4 and R5) in the chick hindbrain on the second day of incubation. Without crossing the midline, facial motorneuron axons extend laterally from a ventromedial cell body location. All facial motorneuron axons leave the hindbrain through a discrete exit site in R4. To examine the importance of the exit site...

Planar cell polarity (PCP) is a common feature in many epithelia, reflected in cellular organization within the plane of an epithelium. In the Drosophila eye, Frizzled (Fz)/PCP signaling induces cell-fate specification of the R3/R4 photoreceptors through regulation of Notch activation in R4. Except for Dl upregulation in R3, the mechanism of how Fz/PCP signaling regulates Notch in this context ...

We make a contribution to the study of Willmore surfaces in four-dimensional Euclidean space R4 by making use of the identification of R4 with two-dimensional complex Euclidean space C2. We prove that the Whitney sphere is the only Willmore Lagrangian surface of genus zero in R4 and establish some existence and uniqueness results about Willmore Lagrangian tori in R4 ≡ C2. Mathematics Subject Cl...

Observations of knock-out mice suggest that breathing at birth requires correct development of a specific hindbrain territory corresponding to rhombomeres (r) 3 and 4. Focusing on this territory, we examined the development of a neuronal rhythm generator in the chick embryo. We show that rhythmic activity in r4 is inducible after developmental stage 10 through interaction with r3. Although the ...

BACKGROUND Video-assisted thoracic sympathicotomy plays an important for the treatment of essential hyperhidrosis. Patients are usually satisfied with the surgical outcome at the early post-operative period, but suffer recurrence and compensatory sweating in the late post-operative period. There are many sympathicotomy methods to minimize recurrence and compensatory sweating. We compared the ou...

A new plant commensal Pseudomonas veronii isolate (strain R4) was identified from a Xiphinema index biocontrol screen. Isolated from grapevine roots from vineyards in central Chile, the strain R4 exhibited a slower yet equivalently effective nematicide activity as the well-characterized P. protegens CHA0. Whole genome sequencing of strain R4 and comparative analysis among the available Pseudomo...

A conformally flat hypersurface f:M3→R4 in the four-dimensional Euclidean space R4 is said to be generic if has three distinct principal curvatures everywhere. In this paper, we study hypersurfaces using framework of Möbius geometry. First, classify locally with a vanishing form under transformation group R4. Second, investigate global behavior compact and give some integral formulas about inva...

PURPOSE A disadvantage of conventionally radioiodinated monoclonal antibodies (mAb) for cancer therapy is the short retention time of the radionuclide within target cells. To address this issue, we recently developed a method in which radioiodine is introduced onto antibodies using an adduct consisting of a nonmetabolizable peptide attached to the aminopolycarboxylate diethylenetriaminepentaace...