A secluded U(1)S gauge field, kinetically mixed with Standard Model hypercharge, provides a ‘portal’ mediating interactions with a hidden sector at the renormalizable level, as recently exploited in the context of WIMP dark matter. The U(1)S symmetry-breaking scale may naturally be suppressed relative to the weak scale, and so this sector is efficiently probed by medium energy ee colliders. We ...

The status of the low-density lipoprotein (LDL) receptor and LDL receptor-related protein (LRP) in seven human glioma cell lines was evaluated to extend our knowledge of human glioblastoma multiforme tumor metabolism for future drug design. Cell lines SF-767, SF-763, A-172, U-87 MG, U-251 MG, U-343 MG, and SF-539 were used. Binding of 125I-labeled LDL to these cells at 4 degrees C was carried o...

Bromus tectorum L. (cheatgrass or downy brome) is an important exotic weed in natural ecosystems as well as in winter cereal cropland in semiarid western North America. The systemic, seedling-infecting head smut pathogen Ustilago bullata Berk. commonly infects cheatgrass stands, often at epidemic levels. We examined factors controlling U. bullata infection levels in greenhouse studies with pare...

Data cloning method is a new computational tool for computing maximum likelihood estimates in complex statistical models such as mixed models. The data cloning method is synthesized with integrated nested Laplace approximation to compute maximum likelihood estimates efficiently via a fast implementation in generalized linear mixed models. Asymptotic normality of the hybrid data cloning based di...

This tutorial demonstrates the usage of BayesX for analysing Bayesian semiparametric regression models based on mixed model methodology. As an example we consider data on undernutrition of children in Zambia. The tutorial is designed to be self-contained and describes all features of BayesX in detail, that will be needed throughout the tutorial. Therefore it may also serve as a first introducti...

Since tumour progression is dependent on the ability of malignant cells to interact with the extracellular matrix (ECM), we have investigated the significance of beta1 and beta3 integrins for migration of lung cancer cells to components of the ECM. In an in vitro hapto- and chemotactic assay system, five cell lines representing the major types of lung cancer were examined: adenocarcinoma (WART)...

We introduce a novel mechanism for baryogenesis, in which mixed anomalies between the hidden sector and U(1)baryon drive the baryon asymmetry. We demonstrate that this mechanism occurs quite naturally in intersecting-brane constructions of the Standard Model, and show that it solves some of the theoretical difficulties faced in matching baryogenesis to experimental bounds. We illustrate with a ...

We present a dynamic network rewiring (DNR) method to generate pruned deep neural (DNN) models that both are robust against adversarially generated images and maintain high accuracy on clean images. In particular, the disclosed DNR training is based unified constrained optimization formulation using novel hybrid loss function merges sparse learning with adversarial training. This strategy dynam...