Tomato mosaic virus was reported from jasmine in Florida. We present the first complete genome sequence of a tomato mosaic virus isolate from this woody perennial plant in the United States.

Chinese teas with different degrees of fermentation were examined for their effect on diet-induced hypercholesterolemia in rats. The teas tested were Chinese Green tea, Jasmine, Iron Buddha, Oolong and Pu erh. Hypercholesterolemia was induced by feeding rats with a cholesterol-enriched diet for 1 week. They were then treated with different tea extracts together with a cholesterol-enriched diet ...

Gillen, Christopher M., Jasmine Vaughan, and Bethany R. Lye. An online tutorial for helping nonscience majors read primary research literature in biology. Adv Physiol Educ 28: 95–99, 2004; 10.1152/advan.00044.2003.—Using primary literature is an effective tool for promoting active learning and critical thinking in science classes. However, it can be challenging to use primary literature in larg...

Mutation-induced drug resistance in cancer often causes the failure of therapies and cancer recurrence, despite an initial tumor reduction. The timing of such cancer recurrence is governed by a balance between several factors such as initial tumor size, mutation rates and growth kinetics of drugsensitive and resistance cells. To study this phenomenon we characterize the dynamics of escape from ...

This work is devoted to communication approaches, which spread information in robot swarms. These mechanisms are useful for large-scale systems and also for such cases when a limited communication equipment does not allow routing of information packages. We focus on two approaches such as virtual fields and epidemic algorithms, discuss several aspects of hardware implementation and demonstrate ...

James Fogarty University of Washington Seattle, WA 98195, USA [email protected] Jasmine Zia University of Washington Seattle, WA 98195, USA [email protected] Abstract Personal informatics applications often fail to effectively support diagnostic self-tracking, wherein people seek to use data in answering specific questions about themselves. Diagnostic self-tracking is therefore difficult,...

[1] The dynamics of the leading mode of boreal winter and its excitation by varying boundary conditions remain mostly unclear. A novel framework is presented to explain the evolution of this dominant winter mode. It is shown that there exists a dichotomy of pathways with the characteristics of the dominant mode dependent upon the pathway taken. All winters examined fall into one of the two diff...