Probing the sources ofCPviolation viaB→K*l+l−decay

Probing the properties of methyl cyanide sources

A survey of 27 galactic star-forming regions in the 6K −5K and 5K −4K CH3CN lines at 110 and 92 GHz, respectively, was made. Twenty-five sources were detected at 110 GHz and nineteen at 92 GHz. The strongest CH3CN emission arise in hot cores in the regions of massive star formation. CH3CN abundance in these objects is increased up to 10−9 or larger. Weaker CH3CN lines were found in a number of ...

Probing Europa’s interior with natural sound sources

Europa’s interior structure may be determined by relatively simple and robust seismo-acoustic echo sounding techniques. The strategy is to use ice cracking events or impacts that are hypothesized to occur regularly on Europa’s surface as sources of opportunity. A single passive geophone on Europa’s surface may then be used to estimate the thickness of its ice shell and the depth of its ocean by...

Probing the sources of suboptimality in human Bayesian inference

In the simple case of a Gaussian distribution of stimuli, humans are often able to combine noisy sensory information with the statistics of the experiment (priors) in agreement with the ‘optimal’ solution of Bayesian Decision Theory (BDT). However, in the presence of a more complex experimental distribution (e.g. skewed or bimodal), such that the normatively optimal behavior is nonlinear, perfo...

Probing Protein Sequences as Sources for Encrypted Antimicrobial Peptides

Starting from the premise that a wealth of potentially biologically active peptides may lurk within proteins, we describe here a methodology to identify putative antimicrobial peptides encrypted in protein sequences. Candidate peptides were identified using a new screening procedure based on physicochemical criteria to reveal matching peptides within protein databases. Fifteen such peptides, al...

PROBING THE ACTIVE SITE OF RHODANESE WITH DISULFIDE REAGENTS