It is difficult to create appropriate bar charts for data that cover large value ranges. The usual approach for these cases employs a logarithmic scale, which, however, suffers from issues inherent to its non-linear mapping: for example, a quantitative comparison of different values is difficult. We present a new approach for bar charts that combines the advantages of linear and logarithmic sca...

BAR proteins are involved in a variety of membrane remodeling events but how they can mold membranes into different shapes remains poorly understood. Using electron paramagnetic resonance, we find that vesicle binding of the N-BAR protein amphiphysin is predominantly mediated by the shallow insertion of amphipathic N-terminal helices. In contrast, the interaction with tubes involves deeply inse...

The cleaved surfaces of untwinned, single-crystal YBa2Cu3O6.9 have been probed with synchrotron-radiation photoemission, utilizing both high energy and angular resolution. Acute spectral structure was observed, both at the Fermi energy and at higher binding energies, particularly near the high-symmetry points of the two-dimensional Brillouin zone, Γ-bar, X-bar, Y-bar, and S-bar. Many band cross...

Results: The sample was composed of 176 patients: single angle fracture (n=47), angle with 1 non-angle fracture (n=118), angle with 2 non-angle fractures (n=10), and bilateral angle fractures (n=1). For all fractures, arch bar MMF was found to have significantly lower malocclusion rates than both manual reduction (2.8% vs 17.5%, p=0.01) and non-arch bar MMF (2.8% vs 13.3%, p=0.04). For patients...

Angular momentum redistribution within barred galaxies drives their dynamical evolution. Angular momentum is emitted mainly by near-resonant material in the bar region and absorbed by resonant material mainly in the outer disc and in the halo. This exchange determines the strength of the bar, the decrease of its pattern speed, as well as its morphology. If the galaxy has also a gaseous componen...

We present a novel joint nonuniform illumination estimation and deblurring method for bar code signals based on a penalized nonlinear squares objective function. The objective function is based on the proper parameterization of a bar code signal and nonuniform illumination as well as a regularization on the illumination using a smoothness penalty. By the minimization of the objective function, ...

Many cold adapted species occur in both montane settings and in the subarctic. Their disjunct distributions create taxonomic complexity because there is no standardized method to establish whether their allopatric populations represent single or different species. This study employs DNA barcoding to gain new perspectives on the levels and patterns of sequence divergence among populations of 122...

A sliding camera travelling along a line segment s in a polygon P can see a point p in P if and only if p lies on a line segment contained in P that intersects s at a right angle. The objective of the minimum sliding cameras (MSC) problem is to guard P with the fewest sliding cameras possible, each of which is a horizontal or vertical line segment. In this paper, we give an O(n)-time 3-approxim...

The aim of this paper was to verify hydrological and hydrochemical changes in the Iquiparí Lagoon water column, during three months, as related to an artificial sand bar opening. A drastic reduction in water volume occurred 28 hours after the sand bar opening, exposing the bottom sediment. This was densely colonized by submerged aquatic plants, which were dominant in the ecosystem metabolism, s...