ersistent bacterial infections cause persistent irritation of the host’s defense systems, which when ineffective in eradication of the infection, result in a multitude of self-destructive damages. This in some cases occurs to such severity that the resulting cellular hyper-proliferation provides grounds for increased chances of writing errors (gene mutations) and decreased chances of correction...

On January 8th 2003, Eric Filiol published on eprint.iacr.org a paper [11] in which he claims that AES can be broken by a very simple and very fast ciphertext-only attack. If such an attack existed, it would be the biggest discovery in code-breaking since some 10 or more years. Unfortunately the result is very hard to believe. In this paper we present the results of computer simulations done by...

What is the Web? What makes it work? And is it dying? This paper is drawn from a talk delivered by Prof. Zittrain to the Royal Society Discussion Meeting 'Web science: a new frontier' in September 2010. It covers key questions about the way the Web works, and how an understanding of its past can help those theorizing about the future. The original Web allowed users to display and send informati...

This paper deals with a statistical model fitting procedure for non-stationary time series. This procedure selects the parameters of a piecewise autoregressive model using the Minimum Description Length principle. The existing chromosome representation of the piecewise autoregressive model and its corresponding optimisation algorithm are improved. First, we show that our proposed chromosome rep...

For the rst interactive Cross-Language Evaluation Forum, the Maryland team focused on comparison of term-for-term gloss translation with full machine translation for the document selection task. The results show that (1) searchers are able to make relevance judgments with translations from either approach, and (2) the machine translation system achieved better eeectiveness than the gloss transl...

A constitutive, phosphate-based interaction between two repair proteins may help provide instant, well-coordinated repair of double-stranded DNA (dsDNA) breaks, according to two articles in this issue from Melander et al. and Spycher et al. Nearly every step in dsDNA break repair requires MRN, from recognizing the break to activating signaling pathways to the mechanics of repair—or apoptosis, i...

Interruption of monsoon rainfall by prolonged spells of sparse rainfall (break-monsoon) during the midmonsoon months of July and August over the plains of northern India (20°-29'N, 75O-85'E) has been investigated. When a tropical low-pressure system moves from the plains in a northerly direction toward the submontane region of the Himalaya, the monsoon trough of low pressure also moves from the...

Correct selection of coefficients for blasthole parameters in Ghalat limestone mine in Shahr-e-kord of Iran has resulted is designing and performing 20 blasting operations. After each blast, fragmented rocks larger than one square meter, called oversize, are estimated and prepared for secondary blasting. Next blasthole pattern were designed based on previous blasting results. The results of the...

Introduction The aim of this study was toinvestigate the sterilization potential of atmospheric pressure plasma jet (APPJ) and interactions of this technology with double-stranded DNA using the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and single-strand conformation polymorphism (SSCP) techniques. Materials and Methods The plasma jet was produced through a high voltage sinusoidal power supplyusing a mixt...