A new species of penicillate millipede, from genus Monographis (Diplopoda: Polyxenidae), was collected from Trang Bom and Dinh Quan, within the Dong Nai province, southern Vietnam. Taxonomic characteristics of the genus Monographis Attems, 1907, were used to formally describe this new species. Sensilla of the 6th antennal article and claw structures of Monographis dongnaiensis were c...

Wireless networks are commonly used by people. Market devices are equipped with the new security standard 802.11i. The standard announced in the middle of 2004 is commonly used to protect WLANs. Currently we can find the information that vulnerabilities were found in that standard. Then a question arises: Are WLANs compromised again? The article describes vulnerabilities which were discovered i...

A new species of indotyphlid caecilian amphibian, Gegeneophis tejaswini sp. nov., is described based on eight specimens from lowlands of the most northerly district of the state of Kerala in the southern part of the Western Ghats region, India. This species is distinguished from all other Gegeneophis in annulation characters and genetics (> 6% different from most similar nominal species for ...

Introduction Cardiac myocyte contraction is driven by the coordinated release of Ca from the sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR). This release of Ca occurs through the cardiac RyR2. Physiologically, Ca release occurs in response to an influx of Ca through L-type Ca channels, via a mechanism termed CICR. This transient increase in cytosolic Ca activates the RyR2 channel as a result of Ca binding to the ...

Introduction Cardiac myocyte contraction is driven by the coordinated release of Ca from the sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR). This release of Ca occurs through the cardiac RyR2. Physiologically, Ca release occurs in response to an influx of Ca through L-type Ca channels, via a mechanism termed CICR. This transient increase in cytosolic Ca activates the RyR2 channel as a result of Ca binding to the ...

We present two experiments that probe the temperature dependence ofthe flexibility ofthe filamentous virus fd by examining aspects ofthe liquid crystalline nature qf fd suspensions. The first measurement i s of the temperature variation o f the coexisting fd concentrations at the isotropic-cholesteric phase transition. The second measurement is ofthe magneticfield induced birefringence or Cotto...

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Optimal control is one of the most important branches in modern control theory, and linear quadratic regulator (LQR) has been well used and developed in linear control systems. However, there would be several problems in employing LQR to uncertain nonlinear systems. The optimal LQR problem for nonlinear systems often leads to solving a nonlinear two-point boundary-value (TPBV) problem (Tang et ...

Wireless networks are commonly used by people. Market devices are equipped with the new security standard 802.11i. The standard announced in the middle of 2004 is commonly used to protect WLANs. Currently we can find the information that vulnerabilities were found in that standard. Then a question arises: Are WLANs compromised again? The article describes vulnerabilities which were discovered i...

1. A maximum of 15 loci from five genera of caecilians (Amphibia: Gymnophiona or Apoda) were examined. Species include lchthyophis glutinosus, Geotrypetes seraphini, Caecilia occidentalis, Gymnopis multiplicata, and Dermophis mexicanus. 2. The data indicate that [chtkyophis (family Ichthyophiidae) is less closely related than are the other genera (members of the family Caeciliidae). Dermophis a...