We are in the process of designing a series of apps for plugin electric vehicles (PEVs) with the goals of raising technology understanding and mitigating range anxiety. We targeted our apps at different moments in the user-car relationship: before, during and after driving. We are designing a study involving a number of PEV drivers to both assess their driving behavior over time, and to test ou...

embryogenesis. We extended this analysis to other Hox-Exd, or Hox-Hox interactions, revealing specific spatial and temporal dynamics during embryogenesis. Altogether, these results show that the BiFC is a highly sensitive method for analysing protein– protein interactions in the living drosophila embryo. Based on the BiFC approach, we established two genetic strategies to find novel cofactors o...

Automatic mathematical solution assessment checks the equivalence of mathematical expressions in the user answer and standard solution. It is a challenging problem as the semantics of mathematical expressions are highly symbolic and equivalent mathematical expressions can be expressed in different forms. In this paper, we propose an effective Probabilistic Equivalence Verification (PEV) approac...

Much of what we understand about heterochromatin formation in mammals has been extrapolated from forward genetic screens for modifiers of position-effect variegation (PEV) in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. The recent identification of the HUSH (Human Silencing Hub) complex suggests that more recent evolutionary developments contribute to the mechanisms underlying PEV in human cells. Alt...

It is shown that high-energy features of the cosmic ray spectrum, in particular the kink around 4 PeV and the corresponding change in spectral index, may be explained from interactions between highly energetic cosmic protons and relic Big Bang antineutrinos, if the latter have a rest mass of about 0.4 eV/c. This explanation is supported by experimental data from extensive air-shower experiments...

Two structures in the all-particle energy spectrum of cosmic rays, the knee at 4 PeV and the second knee around 400 PeV are proposed to be explained by a phenomenological model, the poly-gonato model, connecting direct and indirect measurements. Within this approach the knee is caused by a successive cut-off of the flux for individual elements starting with protons at 4.5 PeV. The second knee i...

The current scarcity of public charging infrastructure is one of the major barriers to mass household adoption of plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs). Although most PEV drivers can recharge their vehicles at home, the limited driving range of the vehicles restricts their usefulness for long-distance travel. In this paper, an agent-based information system is presented for identifying patterns in r...

The Pseudomonas aeruginosa polyvalent vaccine PEV and its 16 constituent monovalent extracts from International Antigenic Typing System serotypes 1 through 13 and 15 through 17 (J. J. Miler, J. F. Spilsbury, R. J. Jones, E. A. Roe, and E. J. L. Lowbury, J. Med. Microbiol. 10:19-27, 1977) were subjected to biochemical analysis and to detailed immunochemical analysis with rabbit anti-PEV immunogl...

It is shown that a variety of characteristic features of the high-energy hadronic cosmic ray spectra, in particular the abrupt changes in the spectral index that occur around 3 PeV and 300 PeV, as well as the corresponding changes in elemental composition that are evident from kinks in the 〈Xmax〉 distribution, can be explained in great detail from interactions with relic Big Bang antineutrinos,...