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Keynote: Recent Discoveries from Paxos

The rapid decrease in the cost of computing and networks has made fault tolerance much cheaper. The gradual increase in the IQ of system designers is leading to a switch from programming hacks to provably fault-tolerant algorithms. These developments have motivated the resumption of archaeological research on Paxos. Some lower-bound theorems have recently been dug up, along with algorithms that...

Recent Discoveries and Novel Hypotheses

Atherosclerosis is an inflammatory process that selectively affects arteries and is highly prevalent in both women and men. Thrombo-occlusive complications of atherosclerosis, including stroke and myocardial infarction, are major causes of morbidity and mortality. Senescence of the arterial tree is a biological process that follows a natural course that can be accelerated by the combined injury...

Discoveries at Risk

Teaching active transport at the turn of the twenty-first century: recent discoveries and conceptual changes.

The conceptual advances introduced by recent discoveries in the field of active transport have triggered a transition from a "black box" approach to a "mechanistic" approach. At present, treating this subject in the graduate setting requires consideration of equilibrium and kinetic experimentation, protein chemistry, mutational analysis and molecular structure, with the aim of defining the "tra...

Glycosides of hydroxyproline: some recent, unusual discoveries.

Glycosides of hydroxyproline (Hyp) in the plant cell wall matrix were discovered by Lamport and co-workers in the 1960s. Since then, much has been learned about these Hyp-rich glycoproteins. The intent of this review was to compare and contrast some less common structural motifs, in nontraditional roles, to uncover themes. Arabinosylation of short-peptide plant hormones is essential for growth,...