The nonspecific lipid-mediated attraction between two proteins embedded in a bilayer membrane have been investigated for a model system using Monte Carlo simulations. We found two types of attraction with different regimes. A depletion-induced attraction in the range r < sigmaL, where sigmaL is the diameter of a lipid and r is the distance between the surfaces of the two proteins, and a fluctua...

Female rats show a distinct attraction for males. This attraction remains consistent without the necessity for the physical presence of the male. However, the identity of the olfactory cues contributing to attraction in rats remains unknown. Rat urine contains copious amounts of major urinary proteins (MUPs). Here, we investigated the hypothesis that MUPs mediate sexual attractiveness in rats. ...

In the stabilization problem for systems with control and state constraints a domain of attraction is a set of initial states that can be driven to the origin by a feedback control without incurring in constraints violations. If the problem is that of tracking a reference signal, that converges to a constant constraint–admissible value, a tracking domain of attraction is a set of initial states...

Attraction to ethanol is common in both flies and humans, but the neuromodulatory mechanisms underlying this innate attraction are not well understood. Here, we dissect the function of the key regulator of serotonin signaling-the serotonin transporter-in innate olfactory attraction to ethanol in Drosophila melanogaster. We generated a mutated version of the serotonin transporter that prolongs s...

world travel and tourism council has estimated that contribution of tourism sector to global economy and employment will be increasing in the next 10 years. travel and tourism contributes to various areas of economy and tourism is accounted as one of most significant industries of 21st century. if countries provide the required capacity for development of tourism industry, they would be able to...

Prior research in neurally-inspired perceptron predictors have shown significant improvements in branch prediction accuracy by exploiting correlations in long branch histories. However, systems with moderate hardware budgets typically restrict such perceptron predictors from correlating beyond 64 to 128 past branches and limit their capability to learn distant branch correlations, such as on th...

BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to compare clinical expressions (severity and loneliness), lifestyle factors (substance use), and vulnerability indicators (stressful childhood experiences) in patients with any same-sex attraction versus heterosexual patients diagnosed with depression and/or anxiety disorder. Little is known about this, even though it is now well documented that depression ...

Previous qualitative research on traditional measures of sexual orientation raise concerns regarding how well these scales capture sexual minority individuals' experience of sexuality. The present research focused on the critique of two novel scales developed to better capture the way sexual and gender minority individuals conceptualize sexuality. Participants were 179 sexual minority (i.e., ga...

Article history: Initial receipt 24 August 2016 Final revision received 13 April 2017 We tested the ability of a Euclidean algorithm to predict attraction to potential mates—a relatively upstream domain in the temporal sequence of the mating process. Participants in two studies reported their ideal mate preferences using a 23-item preference instrument. Separately, they rated their attraction t...

Historically, at first it was believed that contraction forces were directly applied by the newly synthesized collagen at the site of the wound. Later it was shown that cells mediate this process. Fibroblasts are considered to have the capital role of mediating contraction that appears to be a coordinated multistage process in both the intracellular and extracellular levels. The fibrous and str...