15. Supplementary Notes Project performed in cooperation with the Texas Department of Transportation and the Federal Highway Administration. 16. Abstract This project has demonstrated that it is possible to track the network-level performance of surface mixtures constructed in Texas. A procedure is outlined in the report to accomplish this and involves firstly identifying a project’s extents in...

In this paper, we investigate the security of the Tractable Rationale Maps Signature (TRMS) signature scheme [9] proposed at PKC’05. To do so, we present a hybrid approach for solving the algebraic systems naturally arising when mounting a signature-forgery attack. The basic idea is to compute Gröbner bases of several modified systems rather than a Gröbner basis of the initial system. We have b...

Land plant cells assemble microtubule arrays without a conspicuous microtubule organizing center like a centrosome. In Arabidopsis thaliana, the TONNEAU1 (TON1) proteins, which share similarity with FOP, a human centrosomal protein, are essential for microtubule organization at the cortex. We have identified a novel superfamily of 34 proteins conserved in land plants, the TON1 Recruiting Motif ...

Transcription factors (TFs) regulate gene expression by binding to short DNA sequence motifs, yet their binding specificities alone cannot explain how certain TFs drive a diversity of biological processes. In order to investigate the factors that control the functions of the pleiotropic TF STAT3, we studied its genome-wide binding patterns in four different cell types: embryonic stem cells, CD4...

Memory γδ T cells are important for the clearance of Listeria monocytogenes infection in the intestinal mucosa. However, the mechanisms by which memory γδ T cells provide protection against secondary oral infection are poorly understood. Here we used a recombinant strain of L. monocytogenes that efficiently invades the intestinal epithelium to show that Vγ4(+) memory γδ T cells represent a resi...

The ant colony optimization (ACO) algorithm is an evolutionary computational technique based on the behavior of a set of ants that communicate through the deposit of pheromone. It involves a node choice probability which is a function of pheromone strength and inter-node distance to construct a path through a node-arc graph. The algorithm allows fast near optimal solutions to be found compared ...

In this paper, we present an algorithmic tool to cryptanalysis multivariate cryptosystems. The presented algorithm is a hybrid approach that mixes exhaustive search with classical Gröbner bases computation to solve multivariate polynomial systems over a finite field. Depending on the size of the field, our method is an improvement on existing techniques. For usual parameters of multivariate sch...

Some rocks contain multiple remanence “components,” each of which preserves a record different magnetic field. The temperature ranges over these components unblock can overlap, making it difficult to determine their directions. We present data analysis tool called Thermal Resolution Of Unblocking Temperatures (TROUT) that treats the process thermal demagnetization as function (or alternating fi...

In this paper, we investigate the security of the Tractable Rationale Maps Signature (TRMS) cryptosystem [10] proposed at PKC’05. To do so, we present a hybrid approach for solving the algebraic systems naturally arising when mounting a signature-forgery attack. The basic idea is to compute Gröbner bases of several modified systems rather than a Gröbner basis of the initial system. We have been...

Voltage-dependent calcium channels (VDCCs) are key elements in epileptogenesis. There are several binding-sites linked to calmodulin (CaM) and several potential CaM-dependent protein kinase II (CaMKII)-mediated phosphorylation sites in CaV1.2. The tremor rat model (TRM) exhibits absence-like seizures from 8 weeks of age. The present study was performed to detect changes in the Ca 2+ /CaV1.2/CaM...