We previously showed that silencing of NbBPS1 encoding an endoplasmic reticulum (ER)-localized protein results in pleiotrophic developmental defects and cell death in Nicotiana benthamiana [Kang et al. (2008)]. In this study, we investigated the mechanism of the cell death caused by NbBPS1 silencing. Affected leaf cells exhibited morphological markers of programmed cell death (PCD) and accumula...

The complexity of probabilistic models, especially those involving recursion, has far exceeded the representational capacity of graphical models. Functional programming languages with probabilistic choice operators have recently been proposed as universal representations for statistical modeling (e.g., IBAL [Pfe01], λ◦ [PPT08], Church [GMR08]). The conditional independence structure of a probab...

With the rapid development of Internet, the traditional computing environment is making a big migration to the cloud-computing environment. However, cloud computing introduces a set of new security problems. Aiming at the virtual machine (VM) escape attack, we study the traditional attack model and attack scenarios in the cloud-computing environment. In addition, we propose an access control mo...

Scannlng electrochemical microscopy (SECM) in the feedback mode, where the steady-state faradaic current at a mlcrodlsk electrode tip Is measured as the tip Is scanned close to a surface, was used to lnvestlgate several dlfferent polymer films on electrode surfaces: poly( vlnylterrocene), N,N’-Ms[3-(t))prop~lE4,4‘-blp~ridkdun e r n e , and Naflon containing Os(bpy);+. The tip response (Le., pos...

The diagnostic of outliers is very essential since their responsibility for producing large interpretative problems in linear regression analysis and nonlinear analysis. There has been a lot work accomplished identifying but not regression. In practice, it often the case that assumption violated, such as when highly influential exist dataset, which will adversely impact validity statistical Fin...

This paper proposes low-complexity blind detection for orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) systems with the differential space-time block code (DSTBC) under time-varying frequencyselective Rayleigh fading. The detector employs the maximum likelihood sequence estimation (MLSE) in cooperation with the blind linear prediction (BLP), of which prediction coefficients are determined by ...

Comdb2 is a distributed database system designed for geographical replication and high availability. In contrast with the latest trends in this field, Comdb2 o↵ers full transactional support, a standard relational model, and the expressivity of SQL. Moreover, the system allows for rich stored procedures using a dialect of Lua. Comdb2 implements a serializable system in which reads from any node...

Cloud computing is a new generation of technology which is designed to provide the commercial necessities, solve the IT management issues, and run the appropriate applications. Another entry on the list of cloud functions which has been handled internally is Identity Access Management (IAM). Companies encounter IAM as security challenges while adopting more technologies became apparent. Trust M...

It is known that sphingomyelin (SM) content is higher in apolipoprotein B-containing particles (BLps) than in high density lipoproteins and that BLp levels, including chylomicrons and their remnant particles, are positively related to atherosclerosis. To evaluate the relationship between serum SM and postprandial remnant particle levels, we determined SM, triglyceride (TG), and cholesterol leve...