BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES The Magnetotactic bacterium Magnetospirillumgryphiswaldense (MSR-1) mineralizes the magnetite (Fe(3) O(4)) crystals and organizes a highly ordered intracellular structure, called the magnetosome. Iron transport system supports the biogenesis of magnetite. Although iron is an essential trace element for many metabolic pathways of the body, increase or decrease in iron w...

Digital records of software-engineering work are left by software developers during the development process. Source code is usually kept in a software repository, and software developers use issue-tracking repositories and online project-tracking software, as well as informal documentation to support their activities. The research discipline of mining software repositories (MSR) uses these exta...

Mirror-self recognition (MSR) is a behavioral indicator of self-awareness in young children and only a few other species, including the great apes, dolphins, elephants and magpies. The emergence of self-awareness in children typically occurs during the second year and has been correlated with sensorimotor development and growing social and self-awareness. Comparative studies of MSR in chimpanze...

Mining Software Repositories (MSR) is an applied and practiseoriented field aimed at solving real problems encountered by practitioners and bringing value to Industry. Replication of results and findings, generalizability and external validity, UniversityIndustry collaboration, data sharing and creation dataset repositories are important issues in MSR research. Research consisting of bibliometr...

It has been generally accepted, primarily from studies on methionine sulfoxide reductase (Msr) A, that the biological reducing agent for the members of the Msr family is reduced thioredoxin (Trx), although high levels of DTT can be used as the reductant in vitro. Preliminary experiments using both human recombinant MsrB2 (hMsrB2) and MsrB3 (hMsrB3) showed that although DTT can function in vitro...

BACKGROUND We compared the functional outcome and influential factors of two standard treatment modalities for central cerebral metastases: electrophysiological-controlled microsurgical resection (MSR) and stereotactic radiotherapy/stereotactic radiosurgery (SRT/SRS). METHODS We performed a database search for central metastasis treatments during the period from January 2008 to September 2012...

Large distributed storage systems use erasure codes to reliably store data. Compared to replication, erasure codes are capable of reducing storage overhead. However, repairing lost data in an erasure coded system requires reading from many storage devices and transferring over the network large amounts of data. Theoretically, Minimum Storage Regenerating (MSR) codes can significantly reduce thi...

We have reported that the gene mph(C) (formally referred to as 'mphBM') is located on plasmid pMS97 342 bp downstream of the msr(A) gene. msr(A) specifies resistance to macrolides by ABC-transporter-mediated efflux, and mph(C) has 49% identity to the amino acid sequence of MPH(2')II, which encodes a phosphotransferase that inactivates some macrolide antibiotics. A strain of Staphylococcus aureu...

Distributed systems are abstractly viewed as either a collection of agents communicating through a global state, or as a set of processes that evolve by pairwise exchanging messages. Languages and frameworks that adopt these two views generally yield very different specifications of the same system, and support distinct reasoning methodologies. In this paper, we examine the non-trivial relation...