Bacterial adaptation to new environments often leads to the establishment of new genotypes with significantly altered phenotypes. In the Wrinkly Spreader (WS), ecological success in static liquid microcosms was through the rapid colonisation of the air-liquid interface by the production of a cellulose-based biofilm. Rapid surface spreading was also seen on agar plates, but in this two-dimension...

Homozygous mutant rats at the newly found white spotting (Ws) locus were anemic and deficient in mast cells and melanocytes. Because the phenotype of Ws/Ws rats resembled the phenotype of mice possessing a double-gene dose of mutant alleles at the W locus and because the c-kit gene was mapped at the W locus of mice, we characterized the c-kit gene of Ws/Ws rats. The authentic sequence of the ra...

Since the convergence of transactional Web Services and workflow management, human interaction can be a determining factor for the length of a distributed business-to-business transaction. Such transactions of unknown duration (e.g. due to human interaction) can be modeled properly neither as a short-running WS-AtomicTransaction nor as a long-running WS-BusinessActivity. Our proposal is to add ...

The number of publicly available Web services (WS) is continuously growing. To perform efficient WS discovery, it is desirable to organize the WS space. Works in this direction propose to group WS according to certain shared properties. Such groups commonly called communities are based either on similarity or on interaction between WS. In this paper we focus on the former, and propose a new net...

We found a novel spontaneous mouse mutant with depigmentation in the ventral body, which we called White Spotting (WS) mouse. Genetic investigation revealed deletion of a > 1.2-Mb genomic region containing nine genes (Kit, Kdr, Srd5a3, Tmeme165, Clock, Pdcl2, Nmu, Exoc1, and Cep135). We designated this mutant allele Kit(WS). Interestingly, homozygous mutants (Kit(WS/WS)) showed a peri-implantat...

abstract  introduction: hyperalgesia is considered as one the marked signs of subchronic diabetes mellitus that could affect the life style of the patients. with c onsidering the potential anti-diabetic effect of the medicinal plant withania somnifera (ws)( ashwagandha), this study was designed to investigate the analgesic effect of ws on formalin-induced nociceptive responses (standard formali...

One of the latest trends is marked by the emergence of so-called web services (WS). These allow rapid application development, characterized by a low cost and an easy distributed application composing. The OASIS WS-BPEL 2.0 standard is an XML-based language which allows to specify the behavior of a business process as a WS which interacts with other external WS. WS-BPEL is a challenge for tradi...

Individuals with specific genetic syndromes associated with intellectual disability (ID), such as Williams syndrome (WS), are at increased risk for developing anxiety disorders. A systematic literature review identified sixteen WS papers that could generate pooled prevalence estimates of anxiety disorders for WS. A meta-analysis compared these estimates with prevalence estimates for the heterog...

Web services (WS) provide a technology for integrating applications over the Internet. The components of a WS are active and persistent computational entities that have autonomous and social behaviours. The paper investigates the formal specification of WS architecture and applications within a caste-centric framework of multi-agent systems. An abstract specification of the general architecture...