The best-studied Drosophila insulator complex consists of two BTB-containing proteins, the Mod(mdg4)-67.2 isoform and CP190, which are recruited to the chromatin through interactions with the DNA-binding Su(Hw) protein. It was shown previously that Mod(mdg4)-67.2 is critical for the enhancer-blocking activity of the Su(Hw) insulators and it differs from more than 30 other Mod(mdg4) isoforms by ...

Environmental factors alter the impacts of parasitic plants on their hosts. However, there have been no controlled studies on how water availability modulates stem hemiparasites' effects on hosts. A glasshouse experiment was conducted to investigate the association between the Australian native stem hemiparasite Cassytha pubescens and the introduced host Ulex europaeus under high (HW) and low (...

Evolvable hardware (EHW) refers to automated synthesidoptimization of HW (e.g. electronic circuits) using evolutionary algorithms. Extrinsic EHW refers to evolution using software (SW) simulations of HW models, while intrinsic EHW refers to evolution with HW in the loop, evaluating directly the behaviorhesponse of HW. For several reasons (including mismatches between models and physical HW, lim...

Heatwaves (HWs) are one of the “natural” hazards with the greatest impact worldwide in terms of mortality and economic losses, and their effects may be exacerbated in large urban areas. For these reasons, more detailed analyses of urban HW trends represent a priority that cannot be neglected. In this study, HW trends were investigated during the warmest period of the year (May–September) by usi...

The suppressor of Hairy-wing [su(Hw)] gene encodes a zinc finger protein that binds to a repeated motif in the gypsy retrotransposon. These DNA sequences, called the su(Hw)binding region, have properties of an insulator region because they (1) disrupt enhancer/silencer function in a position-dependent manner and (2) protect the mini-white gene from both euchromatic and heterochromatic position ...

This study aims to determine whether a low weight at birth may influence muscle characteristics and meat quality traits in pigs at market weight. At 68 days of age, a total of 30 female piglets were assigned within litter to one of the two experimental groups (n = 15 per group): low birth weight (LW: 1.05 + 0.04 kg) or heavy birth weight (HW: 1.89 + 0.02 kg). Pigs were penned individually and f...

the japanese quail has been utilized as a research species in establishing the genetic relationships that may also be present in other species. divergent phenotypic selection for 4-wk bw was conducted for three generations in high (hw) and low (lw) lines. within each line, 50 females and 25 males were selected among 600 birds, based on 4-wk bw. mean bw at 4 wk of age in the base generation was ...

System-on-Chip (SoC) design raises an abstraction level in hardware (HW) design beyond a domain language specification. This requires the introduction and adoption of high-level analysis and specification methods that provide reusability, layericity, orthogonality, heterogeneity and customizability for HW design. HW design has many levels of abstraction. The transition between these levels can ...

Hot water (HW) and modified atmosphere packaging (MAP) treatments were evaluated to maintain postharvest quality of pomegranate fruit (Punica granatum cv. ‘Hicaznar’). Pomegranates subjected hot treatment (at 50 °C for 3 min) packaged with or without MAP bags. Fruit was then kept at 6 months 20 7 days after cold storage period. The untreated unpackaged served as a control (C). HW+MAP more effec...

BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to examine the accuracy of total body density and percent body fat (% fat) using air displacement plethysmography (ADP) and hydrostatic weighing (HW) in children. METHODS Sixty-six male and female subjects (40 males: 12.4 +/- 1.3 yrs, 47.4 +/- 14.8 kg, 155.4 +/- 11.9 cm, 19.3 +/- 4.1 kg/m2; 26 females: 12.0 +/- 1.9 yrs, 41.4 +/- 7.7 kg, 152.1 +/- 8.9 c...