AMIR DEMBO 1 Department of Statistics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-4065, USA email: [email protected] QI-MAN SHAO 2 Department of Mathematics, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China; Department of Mathematics, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403, USA; Department of Mathematics, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310027...

Gene silencing by RNA interference is a particularly important tool in the study of gene function in polyploid cereal species for which the collections of natural or induced mutants are very limited. Previously we have been testing small interfering RNA-based approach of gene silencing in wheat and triticale. In this research, artificial microRNAs (amiRs) were studied in the same species and th...

BACKGROUND Envelope protein 53R was identified from frog Rana grylio virus (RGV), a member of the family Iridoviridae, and it plays an important role in the virus assembly. Although inhibition of iridovirus major capsid protein (MCP) by small hairpin RNAs (shRNAs) has been shown to cause resistance to viral infection in vitro, RNA interference (RNAi) to inhibit aquatic animal virus envelope pro...

This study discusses the bereavement of Amir, main character The Kite Runner, and analyzes defense mechanisms projected toward bereavement. uses a psychological approach to identify analyze Amir�s mechanisms. qualitative descriptive nature this allows data be presented in form texts or descriptions. Data were mined from novel through character�s feelings, thoughts, dialogues. analysis shows tha...

(continued on page 3) Ran Canetti and Rosario Gennaro are Research Staff Members at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center. They can be contacted at [email protected] and [email protected], respectively. Amir Herzberg manages the Network Computing and Security Group at the IBM Haifa Research Lab (Tel-Aviv Annex), and Dalit Naor is a Research Staff Member there. They can be reached at ami...

The affiliation of author Amir Sepehrian Azar corrected through this correction.