ABSTRACT While characterizing the agents involved in symptomatology of a variegated mint, Mentha x gracilis 'Variegata', a nursery plant with atypical symptoms was examined. This plant, unlike 'Variegata', did not exhibit yellow vein banding symptoms but instead had distorted and crinkled leaves. Molecular tests for the three viruses found in 'Variegata' clones failed to detect any of these vir...

The hypermethylation of the CpG islands is a common mechanism for the inactivation of tumor-related genes. In the present study, we analyzed the methylation status of genes for cell repair such as hMLH1, MGMT, and GSTP1, and a gastric cancer-specifically methylated DNA fragment, MINT 25 in gastric cancer cases and control groups. The study population consisted of 100 gastric cancer patients (50...

Many different constructions for (t,m, s)-nets and (t, s)-sequences are known today. Propagation rules as well as connections to other mathematical objects make it difficult to determine the best net available in a given setting. The MinT database developed by the authors is one of the most elaborate solutions to this problem. In this article we discuss some aspects of the theory that makes Min...

Structural biology experiments and structure prediction tools have provided many high-resolution three-dimensional structures of nucleic acids. Also, molecular dynamics force field parameters have been adapted to simulating charged and flexible nucleic acid structures on microsecond time scales. Therefore, we can generate the dynamics of DNA or RNA molecules, but we still lack adequate tools fo...

This paper proposes an Internet of Things (IoT) middleware called Middleware for Cooperative Interaction of Things (MinT). MinT supports a fully distributed IoT environment in which IoT devices directly connect to peripheral devices easily construct a local or global network, and share their data in an energy efficient manner. MinT provides a sensor abstract layer, a system layer and an interac...

The Notch pathway is a conserved cellto-cell signaling mechanism that mediates cell fate decisions in metazoans. Canonical signaling results in changes in gene expression, which is regulated by the nuclear effector of the pathway CSL (CBF1/RBP-J, Su(H), Lag-1). CSL is a DNA binding protein that functions as either a repressor or an activator of transcription, depending upon whether it is comple...

A major barrier to advancing modern wireless networking research is the lack of an effective wireless network simulation platform that simultaneously offers high fidelity, scalability, reproducibility and ease of use. MiNT [8], [7] is an innovative wireless network emulation platform that is specifically designed to satisfy all these desirable properties. To support reconfigurable network topol...

We report on the design, first observing season, and analysis of data from a new prototype millimeterwave interferometer, MINT. MINT consists of four 145GHz SIS mixers operating in double-sideband mode in a compact heterogeneous configuration. The signal band is subdivided by a monolithic channelizer, after which the correlations between antennas are performed digitally. The typical receiver se...

ion and Underspeci cation in Semantic Transfer Bernd Abb Bianka Buschbeck-Wolf Christel Tschernitschek Institute for Logic and Linguistics IBM Informationssysteme GmbH Report 112 April 1996 April 1996 Bernd Abb Bianka Buschbeck-Wolf Christel Tschernitschek IBM Informationssysteme GmbH Institut f ur Logik und Linguistik Vangerowstr. 18 69115 Heidelberg Tel.: (06221) 59 4900 Fax: (06221) 59 3200...

Cucumber mosaic virus (CMV) is one of the causal agents of viral diseases that infected mint (Mentha spp.). CMV is a member of the cucumovirus genus in  Bromoviridae family. The virus is naturally transmitted by aphids in a non-persistent manner.During  growing season 2007-2008, leaf samples from plants of mint fields with symptoms of viral disease were collected in mint fieldas in Tehran provi...