Plants enter their reproductive phase when the environmental conditions are favourable for the successful production of progeny. The transition from vegetative to reproductive phase is influenced by several environmental factors including ambient temperature. In the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana, SHORT VEGETATIVE PHASE (SVP) is critical for this pathway; svp mutants cannot modify their flowe...

We show the first dimension-preserving search-to-decision reductions for approximate SVP and CVP. In particular, for any γ ≤ 1+O(logn/n), we obtain an efficient dimension-preserving reduction from γO(n/ log n)-SVP to γ-GapSVP and an efficient dimension-preserving reduction from γO(n)-CVP to γ-GapCVP. These results generalize the known equivalences of the search and decision versions of these pr...

We describe the SVP data model. The goal of SVP is to model both set and stream data, and to model parallelism in bulk data processing. SVP also shows promise for other parallel processing applications. SVP models collections, which include sets and streams as special cases. Collections are represented as ordered tree structures, and divide-and-conquer mappings are easily deened on these struct...

We describe the SVP data model. The goal of SVP is to model both set and stream data, and to model parallelism in bulk data processing. SVP also shows promise for other parallel processing applications. SVP models collections, which include sets and streams as special cases. Collections are represented as ordered tree structures, and divide-and-conquer mappings are easily defined on these struc...

Multiple genetic pathways act in response to developmental cues and environmental signals to promote the floral transition, by regulating several floral pathway integrators. These include FLOWERING LOCUS T (FT) and SUPPRESSOR OF OVEREXPRESSION OF CONSTANS 1 (SOC1). We show that the flowering repressor SHORT VEGETATIVE PHASE (SVP) is controlled by the autonomous, thermosensory, and gibberellin p...

Drosophila embryonic neuroblasts generate different cell types at different time points. This is controlled by a temporal cascade of Hb→Kr→Pdm→Cas→Grh, which acts to dictate distinct competence windows sequentially. In addition, Seven up (Svp), a member of the nuclear hormone receptor family, acts early in the temporal cascade, to ensure the transition from Hb to Kr, and has been referred to as...

signals determines optimal flowering time for successful reproduction in seasonal environments (28, 29). Our data demonstrate the importance of the repressors SVP, FLM-b, and FLC, which affect flowering at different but partially overlapping temperature ranges (fig. S19). However, we cannot exclude the possibility that the importance of SVPand FLM-bmaynot extend toArabidopsiswinter annual acces...

Infectious bursal disease virus (IBDV) causes a highly contagious disease in young chicks and leads to significant economic losses in the poultry industry. The capsid protein VP2 of IBDV plays an important role in virus binding and cell recognition. VP2 forms a subviral particle (SVP) with immunogenicity similar to that of the IBDV capsid. In the present study, we first showed that SVP could in...

Many-core architectures of the future are likely to have distributed memory organizations and need fine grained concurrency management to be used effectively. The Self-adaptive Virtual Processor (SVP) is an abstract concurrent programming model which can provide this, but the model and its current implementations assume a single address space shared memory. We investigate and extend SVP to hand...

Forensic experts are increasingly asked to consult in sexually violent predator (SVP) determinations. The substantive criteria for SVP standards vary substantially across jurisdictions, but typically include complex judgments regarding volitional impairment and predictive statements focused specifically on sexual violence. A common but questionable practice is the retrofitting of generic risk-a...