Phytoplasmas are unculturable bacterial plant pathogens transmitted by phloem-feeding hemipteran insects. DNA of phytoplasmas is difficult to purify because of their exclusive phloem location and low abundance in plants. To overcome this constraint, suppression subtractive hybridization (SSH) was modified and used to selectively amplify DNA of the stolbur phytoplasma infecting a periwinkle plan...

Cysteine hydropersulfide (Cys-SSH) plays primary roles in the synthesis of sulfur-containing cofactors, regulation of cellular signaling, activation or inactivation of enzyme activities, and modulation of cellular redox milieu. However, its biofunctions need to be further addressed due to the fact that many issues remain to be clarified. Herein, we conceive a novel ratiometric near-infrared flu...

In eusocial Hymenoptera species, females variably develop into either alate females (queens) or workers, and in most cases, caste differentiation is determined environmentally. Recently, however, female castes in two harvester ant species, Pogonomyrmex rugosus and P. barbatus, were found to be determined genetically in hybrid zones of these two species. In the hybrid populations, homozygous fem...

The assimilation of surface velocity observations and their impact on the model sea surface height (SSH) is examined using an operational regional ocean model and its four-dimensional variational data assimilation (4DVAR) analysis component. In this work, drifter-derived surface velocity observations are assimilated into the Navy’s Coastal Ocean Model (NCOM) 4DVAR in weak-constraint mode for a ...

STUDY OBJECTIVES (1) to develop an indicator of socioeconomic position based on the social standing of the habitat (SSH), that is, the residential building, its immediate surroundings, and local neighbourhood; (2) to assess the relation of SSH to two usual markers of socioeconomic position (education and occupation) and a known, socially determined health outcome (hypertension). DESIGN Popula...

Endothelial cell (EC) inflammation is a central event in the pathogenesis of many pulmonary diseases such as acute lung injury and its more severe form acute respiratory distress syndrome. Alterations in actin cytoskeleton are shown to be crucial for NF-κB regulation and EC inflammation. Previously, we have described a role of actin binding protein cofilin in mediating cytoskeletal alterations ...

[1] Present methods used to retrieve altimeter data do not provide reliable estimates of sea surface height (SSH) in the nearshore region, resulting in a measurement gap of 25–50 km next to the coast. In the present work, gridded SSH fields produced by Archiving, Validation, and Interpretation of Satellite Oceanographic data (AVISO) in the offshore region are combined with coastal tide gauge ti...

Article history: Received 1 December 2010 Received in revised form 27 June 2011 Accepted 28 June 2011 The Spanish Sport Horse (SSH) is a recent breed, founded in 2002 in the search for a breed with a first-rate performance at any of the Olympic equestrian disciplines (dressage, show jumping and/ or eventing). The aimof this researchwas to describe the genetic structure of the SSHand to assess t...

A standard tool for secure remote access, the SSH protocol uses publickey cryptography to establish an encrypted and integrity-protected channel with a remote server. However, widely-deployed implementations of the protocol are vulnerable to man-in-the-middle attacks, where an adversary substitutes her public key for the server’s. This danger particularly threatens a traveling user Bob borrowin...

Objectives Taking into account the importance of early identification and intervention in patients with SSh in relation to prognosis, we studied few biomarkers, measured within 24 hours from the onset of SSh, along with clinical score to compare their prognostic value for SSh and evaluate their The purpose of the study was to ascertain the prognostic value and evaluate their usefulness. Methods...