The first sentence of the second paragraph of the ‘‘Assemblies’’ subsection of the Methods should have cited reference 34 instead of 33. The correct sentence should read: The Illumina datasets were assembled using SOAPdenovo 1.05 [34] using following parameters: ‘‘-K 23 -L 70 -M 3 -u -R -F’’. The fourth sentence of the first paragraph of the ‘‘Importance of Quality Control for Illumina Data’’ s...

1.1 The intention behind the publication in 1989 of "Midlands Prehistory: Some recent and current researches into the prehistory of central England", was to show that the Midlands was "far from the prehistoric wilderness that was once envisaged" (Gibson 1989, 3). This collection of papers provided a demonstration of how the combined efforts of aerial photography, fieldwalking and rescue archaeo...

A hybrid modeling framework for scattering from general 3D elastic targets in a stratified ocean waveguide is presented, incorporating multiple scattering between the target and the stratification, and allowing for targets to be completely or partially buried in a stratified seabed. The approach uses a generalized wavefield superposition, or virtual source approach, together with a Fourier-Bess...

Since the 1970s, Kebili region southern Tunisia has undergone significant territorial changes due to expansion of date palm plantations based on illicit boreholes tapping underlying deep aquifers. These private initiatives, called “extensions”, have developed collective unfarmed areas, outside historical oases and raised sustainability concerns. To address groundwater sustainability, local acto...

DUANNI HUANG,* PAOLO PINTUS, CHONG ZHANG, PAUL MORTON, YUYA SHOJI, TETSUYA MIZUMOTO, AND JOHN E. BOWERS Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, University of California Santa Barbara, California 93106, USA Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, via Moruzzi 1, 56124 Pisa, Italy Morton Photonics, 3301 Velvet Valley Dr, West Friendship, Maryland 21794, USA Department of Electrical and Electronic Engi...

“Old-timers, like me (born 1913) fortunately often do not lose the long-term memory of past events. I witnessed how world pharmacology stepped out of shadow of physiology into a generally recognized branch of science, and its international organization International Union of Pharmacology (IUPHAR) became an established member of the International Committee of Scientific Union (ICSU)”. My friends...

Little is known on the impact that climate change (CC) may have Aspergillus carbonarius and Ochratoxin A (OTA) contamination of grapes, especially in Mediterranean region where CC scenarios temperature are expected to increase by +2–5 °C CO 2 from 400 800/1200 ppm. This study examined effect (i) current increased alternating 11.5 h dark/12.5 light cycle (15–28 vs 18–34 °C), representative North...

DNA sequencing technology is becoming more accessible to a variety of researchers as costs continue to decline. As researchers begin to sequence novel transcriptomes, most of these data sets lack a reference genome and will have to rely on de novo assemblers. Making comparisons across assemblies can be difficult: each program has its strengths and weaknesses, and no tool exists to comparatively...