AIMS The microtubule-associated protein 1 light chain 3 (LC3A) is an essential component of the autophagic vacuoles, forming a reliable marker of autophagic activity. In a previous study, the authors showed that LC3A immunohistochemistry renders three patterns of autophagic expression in breast carcinomas: diffuse cytoplasmic, perinuclear and 'stone-like' intracellular structures (SLS), each wi...

Tiller angle, a key agronomic trait for achieving ideal plant architecture and increasing grain yield, is regulated mainly by shoot gravitropism. Strigolactones (SLs) are a group of newly identified plant hormones that are essential for shoot branching/rice tillering and have further biological functions as yet undetermined. Through screening for suppressors of lazy1 (sols), a classic rice muta...

This work focuses on improving state-of-the-art in stochastic local search (SLS) for solving Boolean satisfiability (SAT) instances arising from realworld industrial SAT application domains. The recently introduced SLS method CRSAT has been shown to noticeably improve on previously suggested SLS techniques in solving such real-world instances by combining justification-based local search with l...

Norfloxacin, a nalidixic acid analogue, inhibited streptolysin S (SLS) production when added to young streptococcal culture. DNA synthesis was mainly affected, but increment of cell mass, RNA and protein was also significantly reduced in streptococci treated with norfloxacin. In stationary phase cells and in the washed resting bacteria, the toxin production was resistant to the drug. Pretreatme...

Stochastic Local Search (SLS) is quite effective for a variety of Combinatorial (Optimization) Problems (COP). However, the performance of SLS depends on several factors and getting it right is not trivial. In practice, SLS may have to be carefully designed and tuned to give good results. Often this is done in an ad-hoc fashion. One approach to this issue is black-box where a tuning algorithm i...

Selective Laser Sintering Irem Y. Tumer David C. Thompson Graduate Research Asst. Graduate Research Asst. Richard H. Crawford Kristin L. Wood Assistant Professor Associate Professor Mechanical Engineering Department The University of Texas at Austin Abstract Surfaces of polycarbonate Selective Laser Sintering parts are investigated to determine the characteristics a ecting part quality. Surface...

Our environment constantly undergoes changes either natural or manmade affecting growth and development of all the organisms including plants. Plants are sessile in nature and therefore to counter environmental changes such as light, temperature, nutrient and water availability, pathogen, and many others; plants have evolved intricate signaling mechanisms, composed of multiple components includ...

Sjögren-Larsson syndrome (SLS) is an autosomal recessive disorder characterized by ichthyosis, mental retardation, spasticity and mutations in the ALDH3A2 gene for fatty aldehyde dehydrogenase, an enzyme that catalyzes the oxidation of fatty aldehyde to fatty acid. More than 70 mutations have been identified in SLS patients, including small deletions or insertions, missense mutations, splicing ...

Strigolactones (SLs) are a new group of plant hormones, which have been intensively investigated during the last few years. The wide spectrum of SLs actions, including the regulation of shoot/root architecture, and the stimulation of the interactions between roots and fungi or bacteria, as well as the stimulation of germination of parasitic plants, indicates that this group of hormones may play...

Stochastic local search (SLS) algorithms for prepositional satisfiability testing (SAT) have become popular and powerful tools for solving suitably encoded hard combinatorial from different domains like, e.g., planning. Consequently, there is a considerable interest in finding SAT-encodings which facilitate the efficient application of SLS algorithms. In this work, we study how two encodings sc...