The meiosis-specific mug28(+) gene of Schizosaccharomyces pombe encodes a putative RNA-binding protein with three RNA recognition motifs (RRMs). Live observations of meiotic cells that express Mug28 tagged with green fluorescent protein (GFP) revealed that Mug28 is localized in the cytoplasm, and accumulates around the nucleus from metaphase I to anaphase II. Disruption of mug28(+) generated sp...

Sporulation, gametogenesis in yeast, consists of meiotic nuclear division and spore morphogenesis. In the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe, the four haploid nuclei produced after meiosis II are encapsulated by the forespore membrane (FSM), which is newly synthesized from spindle pole bodies (SPBs) in the cytoplasm of the mother cell as spore precursors. Although the coordination between ...

Today people have become more and more dependent on search engines such as Google, Yahoo, and MSN, etc., for their information needs. Web spamming has emerged to take the economic advantage of high search rankings and threatened the accuracy and fairness of those rankings. Understanding spamming techniques is essential for evaluating the strength and weakness of a ranking algorithm, and for fig...

Context: Finite State Machine (FSM) inference from execution traces has received a lot of attention over the past few years. Various approaches have been explored, each holding different properties for the resulting models, but the lack of standard benchmarks limits the ability of comparing the proposed techniques. Evaluation is usually performed on a few case studies, which is useful for asses...

In this paper, a Collaborative Mission Planning, Autonomy and Control Technology (CoMPACT) is presented for enhancing Unmanned Surface Vehicle (USV) capabilities in a maritime setting. CoMPACT uses a Finite State Machine (FSM) structure, can entail an array of communication architectures, and is demonstrated here for USVs under anti-submarine warfare (ASW), mine countermeasures (MCM), and other...

ion While the coverage-driven design validation is getting popular, it would be more convenient for users to have an automatic generator that can generate the input patterns to satisfy the coverage requirements. The symbolic techniques can be used to generate the desired input patterns easily for a specific state transition in a FSM. However, it is not practical for real designs because the mem...

Microprocessor testing is becoming a challenging task, due to the increasing complexity of modern architectures. Nowadays, most architectures are tackled with a combination of scan chains and Software-Based Self-Test (SBST) methodologies. Among SBST techniques, evolutionary feedback-based ones prove effective in microprocessor testing: their main disadvantage, however, is the considerable time ...

Female-sterile mutants are ideal materials for studying pistil development in plants. Here, we identified a female-sterile mutant fsm in Chinese cabbage. This mutant, which exhibited stable inheritance, was derived from Chinese cabbage DH line 'FT' using a combination of isolated microspore culture and ethyl methanesulfonate mutagenesis. Compared with the wild-type line 'FT,' the fsm plants exh...

Sporulation in fission yeast represents a unique mode of cell division in which a new cell is formed within the cytoplasm of a mother cell. This event is accompanied by formation of the forespore membrane (FSM), which becomes the plasma membrane of spores. At prophase II, the spindle pole body (SPB) forms an outer plaque, from which formation of the FSM is initiated. Several components of the S...

AbstractUrban sanitation necessitates management of fecal sludge inside and outside the household. This study examined associations between household sanitation, fecal contamination, and enteric infection in two low-income neighborhoods in Vellore, India. Surveys and spatial analysis assessed the presence and clustering of toilets and fecal sludge management (FSM) practices in 200 households. F...