Summary Advances in high-throughput RNA sequencing have enabled more efficient detection of fusion transcripts, but the technology and associated software used for fusion detection from sequencing data often yield a high false discovery rate. Good prioritization of the results is important, and this can be helped by a visualization framework that automatically integrates RNA data with known gen...

To the Editor We would like to contribute to the discussion of possible mechanisms involved in the pregnancy-induced restoration of the renal vasodilator response to glycine in Dahl salt-sensitive rats reported by Whitescarver and Heesch in the December issue of Hypertension. We want to call attention to the role of renal kinins, postulated as mediators of amino acid-induced hyperperfusion and ...

INTRODUCTION In many countries around the world “developers” take the best agricultural lands for housing, and urbanization spreads rapidly. As a result, the agricultural industries are pushed into less productive lands in which the climate is not the most suitable for crops. A very good example is found in Israel. The best agricultural area is along the Mediterranean coast where the citrus ind...

The largest and most luxurious passenger ship in the Adriatic was steamship “Queen Mary”, that initially held constant 12-days line from Sušak, via Split Dubrovnik to Greece. Later, extended Palestine Egypt, has attracted attention of members Zagreb elite. Among first ones who have travelled line, September 13th until October 7th, 1933, prominent Zagreb’s entrepreneurial family Deutsch-Maceljsk...

Understanding the Spread of Malignant Conflict: A Dynamical Systems Perspective Naira Musallam, Peter T. Coleman, and Andrzej Nowak “The other day I was taking a walk across the shore of Jaffa [a Palestinian town prior to 1948] and I was looking at the houses that now have been converted into these galleries [...] They are very nice houses with traditional Arabic Architecture, but I got so upse...

1 Department of Medicinal Chemistry and Natural Products, School of Pharmacy, Hadassah Medical School, The Hebrew University, PO Box 12065, Jerusalem 91120, Israel 2 Plant Breeding and Acclimatization Institute, Radzikow, Poland 3 Department of Horticultural Science, Mokpo National University, Muan, Jeonnam 534-729, Korea 4 Department of Food Engineering, Mokpo National University, Muan, Jeonna...

Few painters have succeeded in representing a dramatic event on a large scale as successfully as Antoine Jean Gros in his painting " Bonaparte Visiting the Plague-stricken at Jaffa." This immense canvas (17 ft. 5 in. by 23 ft. 7 in.; 5.3 by 7.2 mi.) hangs in the Salle Daru of the Louvre, Paris. The event depicted took place during the Syrian Campaign in March 1799. Worried by the fear and loss ...