We report here the draft genome sequence of Exiguobacterium sp. HVEsp1, a thermophilic bacterium isolated from a deep-sea hydrothermal vent. The estimated genome size of this strain is 2,838,499 bp with a G+C content of 48.2%. The genome sequence data provide valuable information that will facilitate studies on the adaptation mechanisms of bacteria living in deep-sea hydrothermal vents.

In this report, we present a draft genome of 2,886,173bp of an Exiguobacterium aurantiacum strain PN47 isolate from the sediment of a saline pond named "Salar del Huasco" in the Altiplano in the North of Chile. Strain PN47 encodes adaptive characteristics enabling survival in extreme environmental conditions of high heavy metal and salt concentrations and high alkalinity.

We investigate the characteristics of constant-amplitude input shapers for robust time-optimal maneuvers of exi-ble structures. Trends in the timing of the shaper impulses are shown as a function of the system damping constant and move distance. The insensitivity to modeling errors, time-optimality, amount of vibration caused during maneuvers, and high frequency excitation of these shapers are ...

Let Φ ∈ Rm×n be a sparse Johnson-Lindenstrauss transform [KN] with s non-zeroes per column. For T a subset of the unit sphere, ε ∈ (0, 1/2) given, we study settings for m, s required to ensure E Φ sup x∈T ∣∣‖Φx‖22 − 1∣∣ < ε, i.e. so that Φ preserves the norm of every x ∈ T simultaneously and multiplicatively up to 1 + ε. In particular, our most general theorem shows that it suffices to set m = ...