The effect of chemical composition on the Raman spectra of a series of natural calcalkaline silicate glasses has been quantified by performing electron microprobe analyses and obtaining Raman spectra on glassy filaments (~450 µm) derived from a magma mingling experiment. The results provide a robust compositionally-dependent database for the Raman spectra of natural silicate glasses along the c...

Stable isotope analysis (SIA; carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, sulfur, and oxygen) of human tissues offers a means for assessing diet among living humans. Stable isotope ratios of broad categories of food and drink food vary systematically, and stable isotope ratios in consumer tissues represent a composite of the isotopic ratios of food and drink consumed during an individual's life. Isotopic evide...

Concomitant infections by different influenza A virus subtypes within pig farms increase the risk of new reassortant virus emergence. The aims of this study were to characterize the epidemiology of recurrent swine influenza virus infections and identify their main determinants. A follow-up study was carried out in 3 selected farms known to be affected by repeated influenza infections. Three bat...

BACKGROUND During fertilization, pronuclear envelope breakdown (PNEB) is followed by the mingling of male and female genomes. Dynamic chromatin and protein rearrangements require posttranslational modification (PTM) for the postfertilization development. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS Inhibition of poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase activity (PARylation) by either PJ-34 or 5-AIQ resulted in developm...

The mixing of magmas is a common phenomenon in explosive eruptions. Concentration variance is a useful metric of this process and its decay (CVD) with time is an inevitable consequence during the progress of magma mixing. In order to calibrate this petrological/volcanological clock we have performed a time-series of high temperature experiments of magma mixing. The results of these experiments ...

This paper analyzes economic issues that arise in devising a credible and enforceable system of identity preservation and labeling for genetically modified (GM) and non-GM products. The model represents three stages in the supply chain: farm production, marketing handlers, and final users. The possibility of accidental co-mingling of non-GM products is modeled at the marketing stage. Regulation...

Horseradish peroxidase injected into individual blastomeres of 32- and 64-cell embryos of Xenopus laevis was identified in cells of the central nervous system (CNS) at larval stages 31 to 39. The CNS received contributions from 24 blastomeres of the 32-cell stage and 38 blastomeres of the 64-cell stage. The region of CNS in which all of the labeled descendants of a single blastomere were disper...

Human head orientation estimation has been of interest because serves as a cue to directed social attention. Most existing approaches rely on visual and high-fidelity sensor inputs deep learning strategies that do not consider the context unstructured crowded mingling scenarios. We show alternative inputs, like speaking status, body location, orientation, acceleration contribute towards estimat...

Women in Circuits (WiC) organized a mentoring and networking event that was held at the International Solid-State Conference (ISSCC) 2023 on Sunday evening, participants played multiple rounds of getting-to-know-you bingo to prompt discussion prior an open session. The format developed encourage mingling conversation between engineers attending conference who might otherwise not get talk each o...