Herpes viruses hedge their bets.

Seroepidemological Survey for Antibodies against Infectious Bovine Rhinotracheitis and Bovine Herpes 4 Viruses among Cattle in Different Provinces of Iran.

Hedge fund replication strategies: implications for investors and regulators - FINANCIAL STABILITY REVIEW - April 2007

Over the past decade, academic research has identifi ed a number of replication strategies capable of capturing between 40% to 80% of the average return of many popular hedge fund strategies. Investors are beginning to take notice of these replication strategies, especially because of their rule based, transparent features and the fact that they can be executed at low cost. Armed with this alte...

Epigenetic Switching: Bacteria Hedge Bets about Staying or Moving

Growing populations of Bacillus subtilis exhibit bistability: motile cells co-exist with long chains of sessile cells. An epigenetic switch has been characterized that controls the transition between the two cell types.

Sero-prevalence of Herpes Simplex and Epstein Barr Viruses in HIV positive patients in Tehran

Abstract Background and Aims: The burden of HIV infection and disease continues to be a major global public health concern all over the world. This study was conducted to measure IgG antibody against EBV viral capsid antigen (EBV-VCA IgG), Herpes Simplex Type1, and 2 to determine the seroprevalence of this infection in HIV-positive population. Materials and Methods: A Cross-sectional st...

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The precision of our discriminations varies with stimulus length (Weber, 1851), such that we can notice both when the school clock is 5 min late with its hourly chime as well as when a musical note is played half a beat late (~0.3 s, in a mid-tempo song). Exactly how we appropriately scale the precision of our discriminations remains something of a mystery, but perhaps even more mysterious is h...