During Arabidopsis embryo development, cotyledon primordia are generated at transition stage from precursor cells that are not derived from the embryonic shoot apical meristem (SAM). To date, it is not known which genes specifically instruct these precursor cells to elaborate cotyledons, nor is the role of auxin in cotyledon development clear. In laterne mutants, the cotyledons are precisely de...

Sex hormones, reproductive status, and pathogen load all affect stress. Together with stress, these factors can modulate the immune system and affect disease incidence. Thus, it is important to concurrently measure these factors, along with their seasonal fluctuations, to better understand their complex interactions. Using steroid hormone metabolites from fecal samples, we examined seasonal cor...

We introduce a PWGL Humdrum interface that integrates command-line unix tools for music analysis into a visual programming environment. This symbiosis allows users access to the strengths of each system— algorithmic composition and visual programming components of PWGL along with computational analysis and data processing features of Humdrum tools. Our novel interface for Humdrum graphical prog...

Although most eastern North Pacific (ENP) gray whales feed in the Bering, Beaufort, and Chukchi Seas during summer and fall, a small number of individuals, referred to as the Pacific Coast Feeding Group (PCFG), show intraand interseasonal fidelity to feeding areas from northern California through southeastern Alaska. We used both mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) and 12 microsatellite markers to assess...

BACKGROUND Emergency nurse practitioners (ENPs) play an increasingly important role in UK emergency departments (EDs), but there is limited evidence about how this affects patient care and outcome. A study was undertaken to compare the content of, and satisfaction with, consultations made with patients presenting with problems of low acuity to an ED. METHODS Patients presenting with "primary ...

BACKGROUND Zinc oxide engineered nanoparticles (ZnO ENPs) have potential as nanomedicines due to their inherent properties. Studies have described their pulmonary impact, but less is known about the consequences of ZnO ENP interactions with the liver. This study was designed to describe the effects of ZnO ENPs on the liver and Kupffer cells after intravenous (IV) administration. MATERIALS AND...

Symbolic music information retrieval is one of the most underrepresented areas in the field of MIR. Here, symbolic music means common practice music notation–the musician readable format. In this paper we introduce a novel rule-based symbolic music retrieval mechanism. The Scripting system–ENP-Script–is augmented with MIR functionality. It allows us to perform sophisticated retrieval operations...