The plant cell wall is one of the first defensive barriers that pathogens need to overcome to successfully colonize plant tissues. Plant cell wall is considered a dynamic structure that regulates both constitutive and inducible defense mechanisms. The wall is a potential source of a diverse set of Damage-Associated Molecular Patterns (DAMPs), which are signalling molecules that trigger immune r...

CROSS-Fire is a research project focused on wildfire management related topics, that defines an architecture integrating three main components: the CROSS-Fire Platform, implemented as an OGS-WS compatible Web Processing System layer; a Spatial Data Infrastructure platform; a Distributed Computing Infrastructure, supporting both cluster and grid environments. The main objective is to exploit Clu...

The main problem in the orbit determination of the space debris population is the correlation of independently observed tracklets, that are sets of observations over a short time. The information contained in such data are not sufficient for a complete determination of an orbit, thus we need to find two or more tracklets belonging to the same physical object and an orbit fitting all the observa...

In order to confirm the constitution of hepatoprotective oleanene glucuronide (OG), HPLC profile analyses of the total OG fractions of both Puerariae Thomsonii Flos (the flowers of Pueraria thomsonii) and Puerariae Lobatae Flos (the flowers of P. lobata) were performed. No remarkable difference in the HPLC profiles with respect to OGs in the flowers was shown, in contrast to those of the roots....

O vergrowth syndromes (OGS) comprise different disorders with overlapping phenotypes. They demonstrate a variety of features, including preand postnatal overgrowth, macroglossia, organomegaly, abdominal wall defects, and hypoglycaemia. They also predispose to the development of embryonic tumours (most commonly Wilms’ tumour). The pathogenesis of two different OGS is well established. Beckwith-W...

Aneuploidy has been recognized as a hallmark of cancer for more than 100 years, yet no general theory to explain the recurring patterns of aneuploidy in cancer has emerged. Here, we develop Tumor Suppressor and Oncogene (TUSON) Explorer, a computational method that analyzes the patterns of mutational signatures in tumors and predicts the likelihood that any individual gene functions as a tumor ...

Since its initial specification, CORBA hás become a de Jacto standard for the development of object-oriented distributed applications. In spite of some important features such as support for interoperability and heterogeneity, the CORBA specification, until very recently, neither addressed object replication nor reliable communication between objects, which are key components to provide fault t...

One of the most attractive aspects of the Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA) lies in its open standard nature. Code that is based only on constructs described in the CORBA speciication is portable between Object Request Brokers (ORBs), without depending on any single ORB implementation. However, this portability feature is not completely achieved in real-world applications. This ...