Rev is an essential HIV-1 regulatory protein which binds to the Rev responsive element (RRE) present within the env gene of HIV-1 RNA genome. This binding facilitates the transport of the RNA to the cytoplasm, which in turn triggers the switch between viral latency and active viral replication. Essential components of this complex have been localized to a minimal arginine rich Rev peptide and s...

The International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) Student Council was launched in 2004 to facilitate interaction between young scientists in the fields of bioinformatics and computational biology. Since then, the Student Council has successfully run events and programs to promote the development of the next generation of computational biologists. However, in its early years, the Studen...

We consider the existence and computational complexity of coalitional stability concepts based on social networks. Our concepts represent a natural and rich combinatorial generalization of a recent approach termed partition equilibrium [5]. We assume that players in a strategic game are embedded in a social network, and there are coordination constraints that restrict the potential coalitions t...

Background Respiratory motion compensation is often required in cardiovascular MRI applications especially when the scan time is not suitable for breath-hold. Respiratory self-gating (RSG) is a technique that estimate the respiratory motion based on k-space signal from the imaging object and is especially advantageous in CINE-like applications where conventional diaphragm navigator frequently i...

Morphological asymmetries favouring the left hemisphere in the planum temporale (PT) and Heschl's gyrus (HG) have both been presumed to relate to the typical left-hemisphere dominance for language functions. However, a direct link between structure and function has not been clearly established. The present study investigates this issue by measuring the volume of the PT and HG on the MRI scans o...

Galaxies in the Local Group span a factor of 15 in metallicity, ranging from the super-solar M31 to the Wolf-Lundmark-Melotte (WLM) galaxy, which is the lowest-metallicity (0.1Z⊙) Local Group galaxy currently forming stars. Studies of massive star populations across this broad range of environments have revealed important metallicitydependent evolutionary trends, allowing us to test the accurac...

High Q frequency reference devices are essential components in many Integrated circuits. This paper will focus on the Resonant Suspended Gate (RSG) MOSFET. The gate in this structure has been designed to resonate at 38.4MHz. The MOSFET in this device has a retrograde channel to achieve high output current. For this purpose, abrupt retrograde channel and Gaussian retrograde channels have bee...

The aim of this study was to compare the effects of high-intensity aerobic interval and repeated-sprint ability (RSA) training on aerobic and anaerobic physiological variables in male football players. Forty-two participants were randomly assigned to either the interval training group (ITG, 4 x 4 min running at 90 - 95 % of HRmax; n = 21) or repeated-sprint training group (RSG, 3 x 6 maximal sh...

A resource scheduling algorithm called XMin-min is proposed in this paper. In the XMin-min algorithm, we consider not only the expected execution time of tasks, but also expected communication time when calculating expected completion time. In the paper, the execution cost of tasks and budget of application are selected as QoS and an algorithm XMin-min with QoS is also proposed. An extended hig...