A major issue in telomere research is to understand how the integrity of chromosome ends is preserved . The human telomeric protein TRF2 coordinates several pathways that prevent checkpoint activation and chromosome fusions. In this work, we identified hSNM1B, here named Apollo, as a novel TRF2-interacting factor. Interestingly, the N-terminal domain of Apollo is closely related to that of Arte...

Linear Coupling, introduced by skew quadrupoles, has been used for several years to enhance the multi-turn injection efficiency of gold and other heavy ions in the AGS Booster. In this paper we describe our latest measurements of the injection process and compare with models.

We illustrate the state of the art in software plagiarism detection tools by comparing their features and testing them against a wide range of source codes. The source codes were edited according to several types of plagiarism to show the tools accuracy at detecting each type. The decision to focus our research on plagiarism of programming languages is two fold: on one hand, it is a challenging...

We present security vulnerabilities in the remote voting system Helios. We propose Apollo, a modified version of Helios, which addresses these vulnerabilities and could improve the feasibility of internet voting. In particular, we note that Apollo does not possess Helios’ major known vulnerability, where a dishonest voting terminal can change the vote after it obtains the voter’s credential. Wi...

In the relativistic transport model, we show that the recently observed enhancement of low-mt kaons (K + and K) in Si+Pb collisions at AGS can be explained if a density isomer is introduced in the nuclear equation-of-state. Typeset using REVTEX

This paper describes a spoken dialogue system based on a generic speci cation of a cooperative communicating rational agent. We present some theoretical and practical apects of the overall approach, along with the speech-speci c and natural language related issues raised by the e ective implementation of the system. An account is also given of an evaluation of the system with naive users on the...

Galileo and Clementine multispectral data of the Mare Tranquillitatis region have been analyzed to investigate the stratigraphy of basaltic units and the effects of lateral and vertical mixing processes within the mare. The distribution of compositionally distinct mare units is observed to be correlated with previous UV/VIS ratio images, although estimates of soil titanium contents are low in s...