Camera networks are widely used for tasks suchas surveillance, monitoring and tracking. In or-der to accomplish these tasks, knowledge of lo-calization information such as camera locationsand other geometric constraints about the envi-ronment (e.g. walls, rooms, and building layout)are typically considered to be essential. How-ever, this information is not always req...

The generation of deletion mutants, including defective interfering viruses, upon serial passage of Spodoptera exigua multicapsid nucleopolyhedrovirus (SeMNPV) in insect cell culture has been studied. Sequences containing the non-homologous region origin of DNA replication (non-hr ori) became hypermolar in intracellular viral DNA within 10 passages in Se301 insect cells, concurrent with a drama...

The effects of 2-year orthopedic treatment with a chin cup appliance were compared between: Group 1, 35 female patients from a private clinic who showed excellent compliance; Group 2, 31 female patients from a dental hospital, whose compliance ranged from good to fair; Group 3, an untreated control sample of similar female patients. All patients had anterior cross-bite and a negative ANB angle ...

The main di culty in enforcing global serializability in a multidatabase environment lies in resolving indirect transitive con icts between multidatabase transac tions Indirect con icts introduced by local transac tions are di cult to resolve because the the behav ior or even the existence of local transactions is not known to the multidatabase system To overcome these problems we propose to in...

Our overall goal is to study the use of informa tion by Go players and the structure of their Go knowledge In particular in this paper we focus on human memory and conclude with a discussion of the bene ts of modelling human memory to AI and Go programs We report on two memory experiments The rst experiment used Japanese Go players to replicate earlier studies on Australian Go play ers The seco...

Homologous recombination is a fundamental biological process. Biochemical understanding of this process is most advanced for Escherichia coli. At least 25 gene products are involved in promoting genetic exchange. At present, this includes the RecA, RecBCD (exonuclease V), RecE (exonuclease VIII), RecF, RecG, RecJ, RecN, RecOR, RecQ, RecT, RuvAB, RuvC, SbcCD, and SSB proteins, as well as DNA pol...

'T'he relat~ve abundance and nature of associations between symbiotic species can be affected by abiotic contfrl~ons L L I ~ ~ consequences for population dynamics. We itlvestigated the effects of temperature on the community of mltes and fungi associated w ~ t h the southern pine beetle, L3endrocfon11.s frontulis, an irilportant pest of pine forests in llic snuthcrn Unitcd States. First, we dc...

Consider a complete network of N asynchronous processors. Every pair of processors is joined by a bidirectional link. Each processor has a unique integer identifier ( id) . The Election Problem is to identify the processor with the largest id. Fix a Hamiltonian cycle that includes all the processors. The network has a sense of direction [6] if at each processor the label on each link gives the ...

The gonadotropins produced by the adenohy pophysis control the section of ovarian steroids which feed back to regulate the secretion of the adenohypophysis. In some animals this homeo static ability is so highly developed that the re moval of the ovaries results not only in increased gonadotropin secretion but in the eventual conver sion of the adrenal cortex into a secretor of sex steroids whi...

Recombineering in bacteria is a powerful technique for genome reconstruction, but until now, it was not generally applicable for development of small-molecule producers because of the inconspicuous phenotype of most compounds of biotechnological relevance. Here, we establish recombineering for Corynebacterium glutamicum using RecT of prophage Rac and combine this with our recently developed nan...