We report the case of a male patient with a normal development in the first three months of life, presenting for global regression, central axial hypotonic syndrome, pyramidal syndrome, focal epileptic seizures, and a particular aspect of the hair - almost absent, short, sparse, lightly colored, at age of five months, becoming coarse, twisted (kinky hair) by the age of 21 months. Different dise...

Cooper questions one specific technical aspect of our study - the site of cleavage in EIN2 - and suggests that cleavage of EIN2 likely occurs elsewhere. Here, we explain how our immunoblotting, mass spectrometry and genetic mutation studies justify our conclusions.

Long-time self-diffusion in dispersions of rigid colloidal rods with an aspect ratio of 19 is studied with fluorescence recovery after photobleaching ~FRAP! in isotropic and nematic phases. The long-time selfdiffusion coefficient Ds L is found to decrease linearly with concentration up to (L/D)f50.12 ~with L the length and D the diameter of the rods, and f the volume fraction!. In the isotropic...

We report on the theoretical analysis of a novel type of vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL) that provides selection of a certain higher-order transverse mode. This selection is based on a spatial variation of the threshold gain by adding an antiphase layer with an etched relief structure. The field intensity profile emitted from this laser is calculated numerically as well as with a...

The use of appropriate method for genetic evaluation of dairy animals is an important aspect of dairy cattle production. Traditional 305-day lactation model does not account for the changes in environmental factors within 305-day lactation and may involve unjustified projection of incomplete lactations. The use of test-day model in the recent past has made it possible to economize the genetic e...

We present particulate simulation results for translational and rotational friction components of a shish-kebab model of a colloidal rod with aspect ratio (length over diameter) L/D=10 in the presence of a planar hard wall. Hydrodynamic interactions between rod and wall cause an overall enhancement of the friction tensor components. We find that the friction enhancements to reasonable approxima...

This study investigated how the perception of a translating object is affected by rotation. Observers were asked to judge the motion and trajectory of objects that rotated around their centroid while linearly translating. The expected percept, consistent with the actual dynamics used to generate the movie sequences, is that of a translating and rotating object, akin to a tumbling rugby ball. Ob...

this study compares and contrasts tense and inherent aspect in english and persian lan-guage from a semantic and syntactic point of view. the aspectual verb system in both english and persian are semantically interpreted alike. however, in persian a group of stative verbs are grammaticalized by the imperfective obligatory morpheme mi-, while in english all sta-tive verbs perfective. furthermore...