1The authors thank A. L. Archibald, M. F. Rothschild, and the EC PiGMaP group for distribution of DNA from the PiGMaP reference families, and D. Nicholson, C. Haley, and G. J. Lee for provision of database services and linkage analyses. Published as paper no. 11935, Journal Series, Agric. Res. Div., Univ. of Nebraska, Lincoln 68583-0908. 2To whom correspondence should be addressed: phone: (402)...

This year six crosses for Pierce’s disease (PD) resistant table and raisin grapes using seedless parents were made, resulting in 2,398 ovules and 747 embryos. These crosses were based on Muscadinia and V. tiliifolia sources of resistance. Nineteen seeded crosses consisting of 3,950 emasculations and 49 bagged clusters were made. These crosses were based on V. arizonica, Muscadinia, and southeas...

Objective—Bile acids (BA) are elevated after vertical sleeve gastrectomy (VSG) and farnesoidX-receptor (FXR) is critical to the success of murine VSG. BA down-regulate hepatic lipogenesis by activating the FXR-small heterodimer partner (SHP) pathway. We tested the role of SHP in fatty liver disease (NAFLD) improvement after VSG. Design and Methods—Wild type (WT), SHP liver-transgenic (SHP-Tg) a...

Optical spectrophotometry and circular spectropolarimetry are presented for several candidate magnetic white dwarfs that were identified during the Hamburg/ESO survey for bright QSOs. Two objects, HE 1211−1707 and HE 1043−0502, are shown to be rare examples of white dwarfs that show neutral helium lines in a high magnetic field, in these cases ∼50 MG and ∼800 MG, respectively. The former is als...

Recognition of human faces using a gallery of still or video images and a probe set of videos is systematically investigated using a probabilistic framework. In still-to-video recognition, where the gallery consists of still images, a time series state space model is proposed to fuse temporal information in a probe video, which simultaneously characterizes the kinematics and identity using a mo...

Context. We report the detection by the AGILE satellite of a rapid γ-ray flare from the source 1AGL J1511−0908, associated with the powerful γ-ray quasar PKS 1510−089, during a pointing centered on the Galactic Center region from 1 March to 30 March 2008. This source has been continuosly monitored in the radio-to-optical bands by the GLAST-AGILE Support Program (GASP) of the Whole Earth Blazar ...