or imagine things, which would make it harder to accept what they consider an 'imaginary' space.” This echoes Heeter’s description of immersive tendencies, i.e. propensity to engage belief in a virtual world (1995; 200). Blue student F also suggested that participants need to be resilient to some of the negative experiences that may occur. “I would say the biggest thing for anybody who wants to...

To study the gating of a GABA-activated Cl- channel, currents from single channels activated by 1.0 microM GABA were examined in patches of membrane excised from cultured chick cerebral neurons. The distributions of open and shut interval durations were each described by the sum of 3 exponential components, suggesting that the channel normally enters at least 3 open and 3 shut states. Five diff...

Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) is a well-known tool for predicting and analyzing performance in variety of engineering branches, including turbomachinery, allowing engineers to partially replace physical experiments with their virtual analog. Nevertheless, numerical analysis should be used carefully regarding possible deviation between simulated experimental results due multiple reasons (in...

After viral infection, host cells respond by mounting an anti-viral stress response in order to create a hostile atmosphere for viral replication, leading to the shut-off of mRNA translation (protein synthesis) and the assembly of RNA granules. Two of these RNA granules have been well characterized in yeast and mammalian cells, stress granules (SGs), which are translationally silent sites of RN...

0.6 30 % 96 % 0.1 3 % 65 % 0.6 28% 67 % The Foot and Mouth Disease Virus (an aphthovirus within the picomavirus family), encodes a protease called L which is believed to cause the proteolysis of the p220 subunit of the initiation factor eIF-4F[ 11. The role of p220 in the initiation of translation still remains obscure but previous studies on this polypeptide showed that it is necessary for eff...

which only cholecystotomy (or removal of stones from the gall-bladder) was performed, but only those in which the ducts were obstructed by stones. Group B.?Ovarian cysts burrowing deeply into the broad ligament, and therefore without a pedicle. Group C.?Cases in which collections of pus within the peritoneal cavity have been evacuated through that cavity, i.e., cases in which the general cavity...

We have assembled tin dioxide nanobelts with low-power microheaters for detecting dimethyl methylphosphonate sDMMPd, a nerve agent simulant. The electrical conductance of a heated nanobelt increased for 5% upon exposure to 78 parts per billion DMMP in air. The nanobelt conductance recovered fully quickly after the DMMP was shut off, suggesting that the single-crystal nanobelt was not subject to...

Blaster worm of 2003 is still persistent, the infection appears to have successfully transitioned to new hosts as the original systems are cleaned or shut off, suggesting that the Blaster worm, and other similar worms, will remain significant Internet threats for many years after their initial release. This paper is to propose technique on tracing the Blaster attack from various logs in differe...

We constructed a stable, low-copy-number plasmid containing a fusion between a Sinorhizobium meliloti rRNA promoter and gfp(mut3). When transformed into S. meliloti the resulting strain, Rm1021/pKW1, fluoresced in proportion to its growth rate during balanced growth. This strain also showed an unexpected behavior when grown to stationary phase in TY medium: the average cellular fluorescence inc...