Swarming colonies of independent Proteus mirabilis isolates recognize each other as foreign and do not merge together, whereas apposing swarms of clonal isolates merge with each other. Swarms of mutants with deletions in the ids gene cluster do not merge with their parent. Thus, ids genes are involved in the ability of P. mirabilis to distinguish self from nonself. Here we have characterized ex...

Due to the prevalence of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) in the many mission-critical applications such as military areas, security has been considered as one of the essential parameters in Quality of Service (QoS), and Intrusion Detection System (IDS) is considered as a fundamental requirement for security in these networks. This paper presents a lightweight Intrusion Detection System to prote...

Tonal information is essential to early word learning in tone languages. Although numerous studies have investigated the intonational and segmental properties of infantdirected speech (IDS), only a few studies have explored the properties of lexical tones in IDS. These studies mostly focused on the first year of life; thus little is known about how lexical tones in IDS change as children’s voca...

Mucopolysaccharidosis (MPS) type II (Hunter's syndrome) is caused by mutations in the iduronate 2-sulfatase (IDS) fusion protein. MPS-II affects the brain, and enzyme replacement therapy is not effective in the brain, because the enzyme does not cross the blood-brain barrier. To treat mouse models of MPS-II with brain-penetrating IDS, the lysosomal enzyme was reengineered as an IgG-IDS fusion p...

Inverted duplicates (IDs) are pervasive in genomes and have been reported to play functional roles in various biological processes. However, the general underlying evolutionary forces that maintain IDs in genomes remain largely elusive. Through a systematic screening of the Drosophila melanogaster genome, 20,223 IDs were detected in nonrepetitive intergenic regions, far more than expectation un...

We prove that the integrated density of states (IDS) associated to a random Schrödinger operator is locally uniformly Hölder continuous as a function of the disorder parameter λ. In particular, we obtain convergence of the IDS, as λ → 0, to the IDS for the unperturbed operator at all energies for which the IDS for the unperturbed operator is continuous in energy.

It has been suggested that infant-directed speech (IDS) is a special speech register conducive to gaining infants’ attention, eliciting and expressing affect, and teaching infants about the phonology of the ambient language. Certain similarities have been observed between IDS and pet-directed speech (PDS), but until now these have not been systematically studied. In this study IDS, PDS, and adu...

Adults address infants with a special speech register known as infant-directed speech (IDS), which conveys both linguistic and emotional information through its characteristic lexicon and exaggerated prosody (e.g., higher pitched, slower, and hyperarticulated). Although caregivers are known to regulate the usage of IDS (linguistic and emotional components) depending on their child's development...