E. C. M. Silva-Zacarin, M. P. Chauzat, S. Zeggane, P. Drajnudel, F. Schurr, J. P. Faucon, O. Malaspina, J. A. Engler Laboratory of Functional and Structural Biology (LABEF), Federal University of São Carlos (UFSCar), Campus Sorocaba, Rodovia João Leme dos Santos, Km 110 SP-264, CEP 18052-780, Sorocaba, SP, Brazil 2 Unit of Honey bee Pathology, ANSES (French agency for food, environmental and oc...

oosting the function of a learning protein jams the brain with too much information, according to Ype Elgersma (Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, Netherlands), Alcino Silva (University of California, Los Angeles, CA), and colleagues. The result is a cautionary tale for those seeking to develop learning drugs. The team created mice lacking two inhibitory phosphorylation sites on CaMKII. Wild-type CaMKII is...

Further Readings Escudero, P. “Speech Processing in Bilingual and Multilingual Listeners.” In The Handbook of Laboratory Phonology, A. C. Cohn, C. Fougeron, and M. K. Huffman, eds. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2011. Escudero, P., T. Benders, and K. Wanrooij. “Enhanced Bimodal Distributions Facilitate the Learning of Second Language Vowels.” Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, ...

Publish/subscribe infrastructures, specifically event notification services, are used as the basic communication and integration framework in many application domains. The majority of these services, however, provide poor or no extension mechanisms as well as insufficient configuration capabilities. As a consequence, different event notification servers have been developed previously to support...

RESEARCH ARTICLE Single Nucleotide Variants in A Family of Monozygotic Twins Discordant for the Phenotype Congenital Megaureter: A Genomic Analysis Augusto C. Soares dos Santos Junior, Luciana B. Rodrigues, Raony G. Corrêa Do Carmo Lisboa Cardenas, Patricia G.P. Couto, Luiz A. Cunha de Marco, Eduardo A. Oliveira, Debora M. de Miranda and Ana C. Simoes e Silva National Institute of Science and T...

in Phoenix, Arizona, USA, for instance, supports conservation projects in situ with its annual grants launched in 2009 (http://phoenixzoo.org/conservation/ global-conservation/). In total, the more than 200 accredited members of the (US) Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA) spend over $160 million each year on in situ conservation initiatives based in countries around the world (https://www....

I dedicate my dissertation to my beloved family and my advisor. I have to thank my parents for their love and support throughout my life. A special feeling of gratitude to my husband, Weiwei Yang. He always supports every decision that I make during life. His enduring love and encouragement ring in my ears. Also, I always appreciate the encouragement from my brother, Yong Wang. He always cheers...

Traditional approaches to calculate total factor productivity (TFP) change through Malmquist indexes rely on distance functions. In this paper we show that the use of distance functions as a means to calculate TFP change may introduce some bias in the analysis, and therefore we propose a procedure that calculates TFP change through observed values only. Our total TFP change is then decomposed i...

This editorial is to thank, on behalf of the entire board f the Associação Brasileira de Hematologia e Hemoterapia ABHH), Milton Arthur Ruiz, former president of the Sociedade rasileira de Hematologia e Hemoterapia (SBHH) and memer of the Deliberative Board of the ABHH, for his magnificent ork as Editor-in-Chief of our journal, the Revista Brasileira de ematologia e Hemoterapia (RBHH). I am of ...