Gibberellins (GA) are an important family of plant growth regulators, which are essential for many aspects of plant growth and development. In the GA signaling pathway, the action of GA is opposed by a group of DELLA family repressors, such as RGA. Although the mechanisms of action of the DELLA proteins have been studied in great detail, the effectors that act downstream of DELLA proteins and b...

Human herpesvirus 8 (HHV-8) or Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus, implicated in the pathogenesis of Kaposi's sarcoma, utilizes heparan sulfate-like molecules to bind the target cells via its envelope-associated glycoproteins gB and gpK8.1A. HHV-8-gB possesses the Arg-Gly-Asp (RGD) motif, the minimal peptide region of many proteins known to interact with subsets of host cell surface integr...

Uncertainties caused by material variation can significantly impair the characteristics of devices. Therefore, it is important to design devices whose performance not damaged even when variations occur. Robust optimization seeks for optimal solutions that are robust fluctuations due uncertainties variation, geometrical assembly tolerances, and changes in physical properties over time real-world...

Cerebral radionuclide angiography with T c pertechnetate (RNA) and directional Doppler sonography (DS) were employed to study patients with cerebrovascular disease (CBVD). The 86 patients investigated were divided following radiographic angiography (RGA) into normals (n = 26) and into patients with intracranial (n = 22) and extracranial (n = 38) vascular lesions. Of the patients with anglograph...

Tremendous increase of Internet traffic demands high speed, large capacity IP switch routers. The introduction of multi-server switch architectures not only makes it possible to scale to larger switch capacities, but also imposes special requirements on scheduling algorithms running in the central scheduler. In this paper, we model the multi-server switch scheduling problem as a maximum biparti...

Al~ t rKt -The paper presents results on frequencydependent tools for analysis, structure selection and design of control systems. This includes relationships between the relative gain array (RGA) and right half plane zeros, and the use of the RGA as a sensitivity measure with respect to individual element uncertainty and diagonal input uncertainty. It is also shown how frequency-dependent plot...

, Abstract: The automation of a quadrupole mass spectrometer residual gas analyzer (RGA) on a time-shared IBM 1800 Data Acquisition and Control Computer is described. The RGA, which is used to determine the partial pressures of various gases in a vacuum system, may be operated up to a maximum data rate of about 20,000 pointslsec (pps) in an interleaved manner with multiple slow-scanning (520 pp...

This paper demonstrates the application of craziness based particle swarm optimization (CRPSO) technique for designing the 8th order low pass Infinite Impulse Response (IIR) filter. CRPSO, the much improved version of PSO, is a population based global heuristic search algorithm which finds near optimal solution in terms of a set of filter coefficients. Effectiveness of this algorithm is justifi...

Antigenic variants of Leptospira interrogans serovars copenhageni and hebdomadis were examined by bacterial restriction endonuclease DNA analysis with EcoRI, XhoI, SalI, BstEII, and HindIII as the digesting enzymes. The antigenic variants were stable cloned strains which had been cultivated in media containing homologous immune serum. One of the strains examined has been reported elsewhere (R. ...

■ Abstract Gibberellins are hormones that control growth and a wide variety of other plant developmental processes. In recent years, significant progress has been made on the biochemistry of gibberellin biosynthesis and on the mechanisms by which gibberellin levels are regulated in plants. There have also been major advances in the understanding of gibberellin signaling, with several key genes ...