In 1998, researchers at the University of Maryland discovered a new disease of creeping bentgrass caused by an unidentified species of Ophiosphaerella. Through morphological and molecular study, it was shown that the pathogen constituted a new species, Ophiosphaerella agrostis, and the disease was named bentgrass dead spot. Subsequently, O. agrostis was found in Texas and Florida causing dead s...

At Studio A, a supported studio for neurodiverse artists, the prolific painter, performer, photocopier, and installation artist Thom Roberts frequently reaches out to connect with friends fellow artists by running his hands across backs of their heads; “reading” crowns. It’s blessing I have been lucky enough receive countless times over course my ethnographic engagement as relationship has deve...

We describe a whole-genome assembly program named PCAP for processing tens of millions of reads. The PCAP program has several features to address efficiency and accuracy issues in assembly. Multiple processors are used to perform most time-consuming computations in assembly. A more sensitive method is used to avoid missing overlaps caused by sequencing errors. Repetitive regions of reads are de...

After publication of their article [1], the authors noticed two errors in their viewpoint. On page 4 under the subheading “Recent randomized controlled trials”, the text currently reads “However, both ICU and hospital stays were shorter in the tight-calorie group, clearly introducing the statistical problem of informative censoring/competing risk that we discussed earlier.” Th e ICU and hospita...

Zoroastrian menstrual purity laws served as one of the most salient markers socio-religious distinction during tumultuous early centuries Islamic rule in Iranian world. This article surveys polemics – particularly by Muʿtazilah—directed against these strictures on bodily and reads them intertextually, it were, conjunction with Pahlavi apologetic texts that defend sanctity millennia-old practice...

archetype is a jung's term for the contents of the collective unconscious; the instinctive thoughts which organize human's experiences according to predetermined innate patterns.  these ancient images appearance in various forms over time including myths and stories, as jung describes myths and fairy tales as the reflection of archetypes. the obvious examples of these archetypes in pe...