Context. In recent decades, direct imaging has confirmed the existence of substellar companions (exoplanets or brown dwarfs) on wide orbits (>10 au) around their host stars. striving to understand formation and evolution mechanisms, in 2015 we initiated SPHERE infrared survey for exoplanets (SHINE), a systematic young, nearby stars that is targeted at exploring demographics. Aims. We aim det...

Hair luster is one of the most important parameters of visual appearance perceived by consumers. Current luster formulae (TRI, Reich-Robbins, ...) are optimized for goniophotometric measurements. They are based on a mathematical decomposition of reflected light into specular and diffused light and the meaurement of the shine peak width on the fitted angular distributions. In this expose, we are...

Recent application of fluorescence microscopy to the study of the bacterial cell cycle has revealed the existence of a cytoskeletal element - once thought to occur only in eukaryotic cells - that mediates cytokinesis, and possibly another involved in chromosome segregation.

We are developing an environment in a cyber-society that will support people in the cyber-society to communicate with members in communities, and to form, maintain, and evolve communities. This paper proposes a common platform that provides the foundation for the various applications to be used in this environment. The platform, named Shine, is designed as a multi-agent architecture. We will di...

Listeria monocytogenes can cause serious infection and recently, relapse of listeriosis has been reported in leukemia and colorectal cancer, and the patients with Klebsiella pneumoniae are at increased risk of colorectal cancer. Translation initiation codon recognition is basically mediated by Shine-Dalgarno (SD) and the anti-SD sequences at the small ribosomal RNA (ssu rRNA). In this research,...