A new virus that infects and causes increased mortality in leafhoppers was isolated from the glassy-winged sharpshooter, Homalodisca coagulata (Say) (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae). The virus, named Homalodisca coagulata virus -1, HoCV-1, was associated with increased mortality of cultured 5(th) instar H. coagulata. To identify the presence of H. coagulata viral pathogens, cDNA expression libraries w...

This article is concerned with geodesics in spaces of Hermitian metrics of positive curvature on an ample line bundle L → X over a Kähler manifold. Stimulated by a recent article of Phong-Sturm [PS], we study the convergence as N → ∞ of geodesics on the finite dimensional symmetric spaces HN of Bergman metrics of ‘height N ’ to Monge-Ampére geodesics on the full infinite dimensional symmetric s...

A holomorphic quadratic differential on a hyperbolic Riemann surface has an associated measured foliation, which can be straightened to yield a measured geodesic lamination. On the other hand, a quadratic differential can be considered as the Schwarzian derivative of a CP1 structure, to which one can naturally associate another measured geodesic lamination (using grafting). We compare these two...

The purpose of this study was to investigate the level of agreement between laboratory-based estimates of critical power (CP) and results taken from a novel field test. Subjects were fourteen trained cyclists (age 40±7 yrs; body mass 70.2±6.5 kg; VO2max 3.8±0.5 L · min-1). Laboratory-based CP was estimated from 3 constant work-rate tests at 80%, 100% and 105% of maximal aerobic power (MAP). Fie...

A strain of bacteria CP1 with high nitrogen removal efficiency was newly isolated from the biofilm of a biofilter for removal of NOx from flue gas. The isolate was identified as Pseudomonas aeruginosa based on its physiological and biochemical characteristics and the results of 16S rRNA gene homology analysis. The new isolate had a high denitrifying ability, removing 98.49% of the nitrate in a ...

Cerebral peptide 2 (CP2), a 41 amino acid neuropeptide, was identified because it was transported from the cerebral ganglia of Aplysia to other central ganglia. Immunocytology indicates that CP2 is distributed widely in the CNS and peripheral tissues of Aplysia. Most CP2-immunoreactive neurons were found in the cerebral ganglia and extensively overlap with the distribution of cerebral peptide 1...

SARS-Cov2, the COVID-19 main protease is set to be a good target for potential inhibitors especially from plants. 6LU7, crystal structure of has been used docking with natural compounds Jatropha curcas and gossypifolia. The following identified within J. have given binding affinities than Azythromycin (control sample): 2-methyl anthraquinone, Curcusone D, Palmarumycin CP1, Apigenin, Jatropholon...

Subgroups of index n in G = Cp1 ∗ Cp2 ∗ · · · ∗ Cpk are in 1-1 correspondance with subgroups of index n in F [x1, x2, . . . , xk], the free group on k generators, containing the normal subgroup generated by {x1 1 , x p2 2 , . . . , x pk k }. Such subgroups in turn are in 1-1 correspondance with connected directed graph on n vertices, with a basepoint, with edges coloured in k colours, such that...