The Rudiviridae are a family of rod-shaped archaeal viruses with covalently closed, linear double-stranded DNA (dsDNA) genomes. Their replication mechanisms remain obscure, although parallels have been drawn to the Poxviridae and other large cytoplasmic eukaryotic viruses. Here we report that a protein encoded in the 34-kbp genome of the rudivirus SIRV1 is a member of the replication initiator ...

Under a suitable sparsity condition on the exponents Λ = {λk = τk+ iσk}, it is shown that the individual terms cT = {ck ek} can be obtained from observation of the L function f(t) = ∑ ck e iλkt through the ‘window’ t ∈ [0, δ] — with an ` estimate (uniform for such Λ) asymptotically as T, δ → 0. Some applications are given to control theory for partial differential equations.

Let Ea : y 2 + xy = x + ax + 1/F2m be a Koblitz curve. The window τ -adic nonadjacent-form (window τNAF) is currently the standard representation system to perform scalar multiplications on Ea by utilizing the Frobenius map τ . Pre-computation is an important part for the window τNAF. In this paper, we first introduce μτ̄ -operations in lambda coordinates (μ = (−1)1−a and τ̄ is the complex conjug...

The Bacterial Endotoxins Test (BET) uses Limulus amoebocyte lysate (LAL) reagents derived from the blood of horseshoe crabs for detection and quantification endotoxins Gram-negative bacteria in parenteral drug products medical devices. Two types recombinant using genes cloned crab genome have become available several suppliers. One is a Factor C reagent (rFC), containing only C, second Cascade ...

We conducted a study to determine if platelet-rich plasma (PRP) enhances the strength of rotator cuff repair (RCR) and if concomitant use of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) affects PRP efficacy. We also wanted to determine the optimal centrifugation protocol for making PRP from rats. This study used 48 rats, 14 in a centrifugation protocol and 34 in an operative protocol. Six syng...

1 Recursive Context Reasoning for Human Detection and Parts Identi cation Liang Zhao and Chuck Thorpe The Robotics Institute Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA 15213 Email: [email protected] Abstract Human detection and body parts identi cation are important and challenging problems in computer vision. High performance human detection depends on reliable contour extraction, but contour ex...

Propagation of genetic information is a fundamental property of living organisms. Escherichia coli has a 4.6 Mb circular chromosome with a replication origin, oriC. While the oriC replication has been reconstituted in vitro more than 30 years ago, continuous repetition of the replication cycle has not yet been achieved. Here, we reconstituted the entire replication cycle with 14 purified enzyme...

Aerobic interval training (AIT) can favorably affect cardiovascular diseases. However, the effects of AIT on post-myocardial infarction (MI)-associated mitochondrial dysfunctions remain unclear. In this study, we investigated the protective effects of AIT on myocardial mitochondria in post-MI rats by focusing on mitochondrial dynamics (fusion and fission). Mitochondrial respiratory functions (a...

In this work we report a relatively simple and fast method for analysing oxygen consumption and therefore mitochondrial functionality, in individual human ejaculates. This oxygraphic method requires a low number of cells, is highly reproducible and linearly correlates with sperm concentration. Our results have shown that oxygen uptake by mitochondria of demembranated sperm cells from normozoosp...