The recent rise in speed and efficiency of new sequencing technologies have facilitated high-throughput sequencing, assembly and analyses of genomes, advancing ongoing efforts to analyze genetic sequences across major vertebrate groups. Standardized procedures in acquiring high quality DNA and RNA and establishing cell lines from target species will facilitate these initiatives. We provide a le...

We report on an X-ray flare detected on the active binary system II Pegasi with the Swift telescope. The event triggered the Burst Alert Telescope in the hard X-ray band on December 16, 2005 at 11:21:52 UT with a 10-200 keV luminosity of 2.2×10 erg s — a superflare, by comparison with energies of typical stellar flares on active binary systems. The trigger spectrum indicates a hot thermal plasm...

Nosema ceranae causes a widespread disease that reduces honey bee health but is only thought to infect adult honey bees, not larvae, a critical life stage. We reared honey bee (Apis mellifera) larvae in vitro and provide the first demonstration that N. ceranae can infect larvae and decrease subsequent adult longevity. We exposed three-day-old larvae to a single dose of 40,000 (40K), 10,000 (10K...

Structural, electrical and magnetic measurements of 115 single crystals of PrIn5 are reported. It has a tetragonal structure and has slightly lower cell volume than its isomorphic counter part CeCoIn5. The resistivity saturates for T≥ 10K. Analysis of the resistivity for 10K<T< 60K indicates a regular fermi liquid behavior. It does not exhibit superconductivity down to T∼ 1K. The magnetic susce...

The spoken content of audio/visual collections such as TV or radio archives is an information resource of enormous potential. The challenge is to develop methods that will make it possible to browse or search these collections. The experimental results presented in this paper demonstrate that syllable-level transcripts provide an important supplement to conventional word-level transcripts for t...

New technologies that will be introduced to the Internet should be practically tested for effectiveness and for side effects. A realistic environment that simulates the Internet is needed to experimentally test such technologies, which will be widely deployed on the Internet. To support experimentation in a realistic, Internet-like environment, we are now trying to construct an Internet on a te...

In this paper we develop a measure of competition based on management’s disclosures in their 10-K filing and find that firms’ rates of diminishing marginal returns on new and existing investment vary significantly with our measure. We show that these firm-level disclosures are related to existing industry-level measures of disclosure (e.g., Herfindahl index), but capture something distinctly ne...

We show that the coronal heating and the acceleration of the fast solar wind in the coronal holes are natural consequence of the footpoint fluctuations of the magnetic fields at the photosphere by one-dimensional, time-dependent, and nonlinear magnetohydrodynamical simulation with radiative cooling and thermal conduction. We impose low-frequency (< 0.05Hz) transverse photospheric motions, corre...

A light-beam-assisted temperature-control system operating within a temperature range from 77 to 180 K is developed for investigating the absorption of electromagnetic waves by high-temperature superconductors in the vicinity of superconducting transition with an ESR spectrometer. The advantage of this system is the feasibility of modulating the temperature of a sample with a frequency of 80 Hz...

FUSE ultraviolet spectra of 8 giant and supergiant stars reveal that high temperature (3×10K) atmospheres are common in luminous cool stars and extend across the color-magnitude diagram from α Car (F0 II) to the cool giant α Tau (K5 III). Emission present in these spectra includes chromospheric H-Lyβ, Fe II, C I, and transition region lines of C III, O VI, Si III, Si IV. Emission lines of Fe XV...