Title of Dissertation: USING THE FUNGUS METARHIZIUM ANISOPLIAE AS A MODEL SYSTEM TO STUDY THE ROLE OF GENE DUPLICATION, DIVERGENCE AND EXPRESSION IN ADAPTING TO PATHOGENICITY. Gang Hu , Doctor of Philosophy 2005 Directed By: Professor Raymond J. St. Leger Department of Entomology Fungal pathogens have been recorded for virtually all groups of multicellular organisms. They are the major cause of...

Cytisine is a partial nicotinic agonist found in high concentrations of laburnum, a plant that grows easily in many parts of the world. This makes it inexpensive to manufacture. The drug has been used for many years in eastern Europe as a smoking cessation aid. The drug came to prominence in the Western world following the development of varenicline, a manufactured nicotinic partial agonist, an...

Skalka B.: Antibacterial Effects of Staphylococcus hyicus and Staphylococcus chromogenes. Acta vet. Bmo, 62, 1993: 39-47. Antibacterial effects of Staphylococcus hyicus (40 strains) and Staphylococcus chromo genes (20 strains) were tested on living and heat-devitalized cells of micrococcal, staphylococcal, streptococcal and corynebacterial indicator strains. All S. hyicus and S. chromo genes st...

s of Presented Talks Monday August 12, 2002 8:30-9:30 Room : 101 Plenary Talk Bruce Hajek (University of Illinois) A Basket of System Theoretic Problems in Communications Researchers are currently faced with a rich set of problems in the design and analysis of wireless communication systems and high-speed communication networks. The purpose of this talk is to survey several significant open pro...

THIS BOOK is concerned with dynamical systems described by stochastic differential equations. The first part of the book deals with the analysis of such systems and the remainder of the book is on application to the filtering problem. The stochastic term driving the dynamical system is taken to be an arbitrary process with independent increments, so that the usual Wiener process model is consid...

We investigate a pursuit-evasion differential game of countably many pursuers and one evader. Integral constraints are imposed on control functions of the players. Duration of the game is fixed and the payoff of the game is infimum of the distances between the evader and pursuers when the game is completed. Purpose of the pursuers is to minimize the payoff and that of the evader is to maximize ...

The goal of this thesis is to understand how to achieve capacity for wireless fading channels with emphasis on the role of the burstiness in both time and frequency of the transmitted signals. Typical signal design constraints for a communication system are concerned primarily with regulating the transmitted power. This allows for signals of di ering burstiness, viz., ones that uniformly spread...

Despite decades of progress in the public health fight to reduce tobacco use, smoking remains the leading preventable cause of death in theUnited States.1 For the approximately 40 million US smokers left, the epidemiological evidence is clear: they will benefit from stopping smoking no matter how long they have smoked.1 Effective treatments to help smokers quit are available, but patients still...