Clusters of galaxies are important laboratories for understanding both galaxy evolution and constraining cosmological quantities. Any analysis of clusters, however, is best done when one can reliably determine which galaxies are members of the cluster. While this would ideally be done spectroscopically, the difficulty in acquiring a complete sample of spectroscopic redshifts becomes rather daun...

The LRRK2 G2019S mutation is found at higher frequency among Parkinson disease (PD) patients of Ashkenazi Jewish (AJ) ancestry. This study was designed to test whether an internet-based approach could be an effective approach to screen and identify mutation carriers. Individuals with and without PD of AJ ancestry were recruited and consented through an internet-based study website. An algorithm...

The adherens junction (AJ) and tight junction (TJ) are key regulators of epithelial polarity and barrier function. Loss of epithelial phenotype is accompanied by endocytosis of AJs and TJs via unknown mechanisms. Using a model of calcium depletion, we defined the pathway of internalization of AJ and TJ proteins (E-cadherin, p120 and beta-catenins, occludin, JAM-1, claudins 1 and 4, and ZO-1) in...

The zonula adherens (ZA), a type of adherens junction (AJ), plays a major role in epithelial cell-cell adhesions. It remains unknown how the ZA is remodeled during epithelial reorganization. Here we found that the ZA was converted to another type of AJ with punctate morphology (pAJ) at the margins of epithelial colonies. The F-actin-stabilizing protein EPLIN (epithelial protein lost in neoplasm...

Unlike any other known sensory receptor, the hair cell uses positive feedback to augment the stimulus to which it responds. In the internal ears of many vertebrates, hair cells amplify the inputs to their mechanosensitive hair bundles. Outer hair cells of the mammalian cochlea display a unique form of somatal motility that may underlie their contribution to amplification. In other receptor orga...

The poset M(n) has as its elements the n-tuples of integers a = (a1, a2, . . . , an) satisfying 0 = a1 = · · · = aj < aj+1 < · · · an ≤ n for some j, 0 ≤ j ≤ n. The order relation is defined by a ≤ b iff ai ≤ bi for 1 ≤ i ≤ n. We show that the cover graph of M(n) has a Hamiltonian path if and only if ( n+1 2 ) is odd and n 6= 5.

Let L = {1 b1 , . . . , as bs }, where for every i ∈ [s], ai bi ∈ [0, 1) is an irreducible fraction. Let F = {A1, . . . , Am} be a family of subsets of [n]. We say F is a fractional L-intersecting family if for every distinct i, j ∈ [m], there exists an ab ∈ L such that |Ai ∩Aj | ∈ {ab |Ai|, ab |Aj |}. In this paper, we introduce and study the notion of fractional L-intersecting families.

Citation: Courtney TA, Andersson AJ, Bates NR, Collins A, Cyronak T, de Putron SJ, Eyre BD, Garley R, Hochberg EJ, Johnson R, Musielewicz S, Noyes TJ, Sabine CL, Sutton AJ, Toncin J and Tribollet A (2016) Comparing Chemistry and Census-Based Estimates of Net Ecosystem Calcification on a Rim Reef in Bermuda. Front. Mar. Sci. 3:181. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2016.00181 Comparing Chemistry and Census-Bas...

Division of Diabetes, Nutrition and Metabolic Disorders and Clinical Pharmacology Unit, CHU Sart Tilman, University of Liege, Liege, Belgium Correspondence to: Professor Scheen AJ, Division of Diabetes, Nutrition and Metabolic Disorders, Department of Medicine, CHU Sart Tilman (B35), B 4000 Liege, Belgium. Tel. +3243667238. Fax: +3243667068. E-mail: [email protected] Conflict of intere...